Introduction
Jo L. Husbands is a Scholar with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where her work focuses on issues related to science, technology, and security. She also represents the Academies on the Biosecurity Working Group of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a network of over 130 national and regional academies of sciences and health. From 1991-2005 she was Director of the Academies’ Committee on International Security and Arms Control and its Working Group on Biological Weapons Control. From 2001-2012 Dr. Husbands was an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. She is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, an inaugural member of the Advisory Board on Education and Outreach of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and a member of the editorial board of Politics and the Life Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in International Public Policy (International Economics) from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Expert
Jo L. Husbands is a Scholar with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where her work focuses on issues related to science, technology, and security. She also represents the Academies on the Biosecurity Working Group of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a network of over 130 national and regional academies of sciences and health. From 1991-2005 she was Director of the Academies’ Committee on International Security and Arms Control and its Working Group on Biological Weapons Control. From 2001-2012 Dr. Husbands was an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. She is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, an inaugural member of the Advisory Board on Education and Outreach of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and a member of the editorial board of Politics and the Life Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in International Public Policy (International Economics) from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Fields of expertise: Science policy, technology and innovation policy