Mailing address
Littauer 327
Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 53
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Robert Frosch
Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Contact:
Telephone: (617) 496-6120
Fax: (617)-495-8963
Email: robert_frosch@harvard.edu
Experience
Robert A. Frosch is a theoretical physicist by education. (AB, Columbia College, '47 and Ph.D., Columbia University, '52). He conducted research in ocean acoustics at Columbia and later served as Director for Nuclear Test Detection, and Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the Department of Defense, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development (ASNR&D), Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Associate Director for Applied Oceanography of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Administrator of NASA, President of the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES), and Vice President of General Motors Corporation (GM) in charge of Research Laboratories. He retired from GM in 1993 before joining the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and a fellow or member of a number of professional societies.
March 4, 2008
"Application Oriented R&D: Aphorisms and Anecdotes"
Presentation
By Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Dr. Frosch shares lessons from his experience trying to perform, and lead, application oriented R&D. Some of these lessons are encapsulated in aphorisms. Some aphorisms are presented, with explication, and illustrated with anecdotes from experience with the Navy, ARPA, NASA, and General Motors.
Summer 2007
"Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector"
Discussion Paper
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Gustavo Collantes, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, John P. Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
The goal of this paper is to contribute to the current policy debate about how to effectively limit or reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector.
September, 2006
Notes Toward a Theory of the Management of Vulnerability
Book Chapter
By Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
December, 2004
Management of Energy - Technology Innovation Activities at the Department of Energy
Report Chapter
By Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, John P. Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
January, 1999
Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability
Book
By William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP;, Robert Kates, Visiting Scholar and Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Knowledge and Diplomacy: Science Advice in the United Nations System
Report
By Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
