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| Q Thought Leaders |
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Questions and conversations among Q Fellows, our core team and thought-leaders are our starting point for developing Q's programs as well as scoping innovative approaches for untangling impossible problems. In particular, our thought-leaders (listed below) bring a broad, multidisciplinary perspective and collectively can directly tap into a global network of 20,000+ experts that span every discipline and major economic center of the world. |
| Thomas Kalil | |
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Thomas Kalil is special assistant for science and technology to the Chancellor at University of California Berkeley. Kalil was responsible for technology policy at the National Economic Council at the White House under President Clinton. He was the NEC's "point person" on a wide range of technology and telecommunications issues, such as the liberalization of Cold War export controls, the allocation of spectrum for new wireless services, and investments in upgrading America's high-tech workforce. Kalil led a number of White House technology initiatives, such as the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Next Generation Internet, bridging the digital divide, e-learning, increasing funding for long-term information technology research, making IT more accessible to people with disabilities, and addressing the growing imbalance between support for biomedical research and for the physical sciences and engineering. |
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Kalil has a special interest in nanotechnology and technology for emerging markets. Since leaving the White House, Kalil has advised a number of companies and foundations, particularly on public policy issues and philanthropy. For example, he worked with the Internet 2 consortium of research universities to help it develop a better relationship with government agencies. He helped CommerceNet devise a philanthropic strategy for a windfall gain. He worked with IBM on how the public sector could play a role in developing interoperability. |