Executive Profile

Deborah L. Wince-Smith Chief Executive Officer and President, Council on Competitiveness

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Background

Ms. Deborah L. Wince-Smith serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Competitiveness. Ms. Wince-Smith is internationally renowned as a leading voice on competitiveness, innovation strategy, science and technology policy, energy, education, economics and business. As president of the Council, she spearheaded the groundbreaking National Innovation Initiative (NII), which played a pivotal role in creating a reinvigorated U.S. competitiveness ... movement. She has been a Director of NanoMech, LLC since October 31, 2012. Ms. Wince-Smith served as an Independent Director at Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. from May 2004 to May 22, 2012. She is also a Senate-confirmed member of the Oversight Board of the Internal Revenue Service, responsible for administering the Nation's tax laws, and the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Since 2009, Ms. Wince-Smith has been the President at the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC), whose creation she led with leaders and stakeholders from over 30 Competitiveness Councils from around the world. She chaired the Secretary of Commerce's Advisory Committee on Strengthening America's Communities. She has served on four Cabinet-level advisory groups, including the Secretary of Energy's Task Forces on the Future of Science and Nuclear Energy. Ms. Wince-Smith serves on the University of Chicago's Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory and was a long-standing member of the University of California President's Council on the National Laboratories, providing oversight for Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. She also serves on the board of the American Telemedicine Association, and Lincoln Center Institute's Imagination Conversation. She also serves on the board of directors at the Albert Shanker Institute and the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation. During her 17-year tenure in the federal government, Ms. Wince-Smith held leading positions in the areas of science, technology policy and international economic affairs. Most notably, she served as the nation's First Assistant Secretary of commerce for technology policy in the administration of George H.W. Bush, overseeing federal technology transfer policy, implementation of the Bayh-Dole Act, and the White House National Technology Initiative. She was also the first assistant director of international affairs and competitiveness in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the architect of the landmark Head of Government Science and Technology Agreement with Japan. Ms. Wince-Smith developed President Reagan's Competitiveness Initiative, and led the implementation of executive orders and new laws that transformed federal technology transfer policy for U.S. national laboratories and American industry. She began her career as a program director for the National Science Foundation, where she managed U.S. research programs with Eastern European countries and U.S. universities. Ms. Wince-Smith earned her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Vassar College and her Master's degree in Classical Archaeology from King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 2006, she received an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from the Michigan State University.

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