Director G. A. Keyworth, II 

Director Jay Keyworth is Chairman of the Progress and Freedom Foundation and Chairman of The Keyworth Company, a firm established in 1986 to work with companies in developing strategies for growth based on emerging and changing technologies. From May 1981 to January 1986, Dr. Keyworth was Science Advisor to President Reagan and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. As a formulator of policy, he has had widespread interactions with science and defense policy makers in many other countries, including NATO members, France, Japan, Israel, India, and The People's Republic of China. Most recently, he has focused on the broad implications of distributed computing and digital connection.

Prior to his White House Service, Dr. Keyworth was Director of the Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he oversaw, among other things, underground nuclear tests and satellite-based nuclear test treaties verification. Among his awards and honors are: Hertz Foundation Award; American Defense Preparedness Association SDI Award; Chairman's Award, American Association of Engineering Societies; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society; and Phi Beta Kappa.

His committees and memberships have been or continue to include: Chairman and Co Founder, Progress and Freedom Foundation; National Commission on Superconductivity; Trustee, Santa Fe Institute; President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness; Vice President's Task Force on Regulatory Relief; Chairman, Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology; Chairman, National Security Council's Committee on Telecommunications Policy; Director, Hewlett Packard Company; Chairman of the Board, NovaWeb Technologies, Inc.; Chairman of the Board, Encanto Networks, Inc.; Director, General Atomics; and Director, YourTel Telecom, Inc. His academic degrees are in Physics.