The Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World invites you to Advancing Policy Through Dialogue: Maintaining Excellence and Innovation in S&T on Sunday, July, 27, 2025 from 9:00 am - 12:15 pm PT in the Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University.
How can the United States maintain global competitiveness and leadership in science and technology (S&T)? How should scientists, innovators, and policy makers navigate a complex geopolitical environment where leadership in S&T is foundational to national and economic security? The Hoover Institution’s Program on the US, China, and the World, in partnership with the Asian American Scholar Forum, is honored to host distinguished experts from government, academia, and industry for a series of fireside chats and roundtable discussions to address these and other critical issues facing the scientific research community.
This morning of programming is part of the 2025 Asian American Pioneer Medal Symposium and Ceremony and is free to attend. Hoover and Stanford affiliates, as well as those with a .edu email address, are cordially invited to attend the full conference (Friday, July 25-Sunday, July 27, 2025) at a 50% discount by registering at this link with code AASFStanfordFam50. Those in the Hoover community without a .edu email address are cordially invited to attend at a 25% discount with code GSTHOOVER25. Both codes expire on July 19, 2025.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Secretary Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm. From January 2005 to January 2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first black woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001 to January 2005, the first woman to hold the position.
Arun Majumdar is the inaugural Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He is the Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University, a faculty member of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Science and Engineering, a Senior Fellow and former Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy and Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. He is also on faculty in the Department of Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Glenn Tiffert is a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. He co-chairs Hoover’s program on the US, China, and the World, and also leads Stanford’s participation in the National Science Foundation’s SECURE program, a $67 million effort authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 to enhance the security and integrity of the US research enterprise. He works extensively on the security and integrity of ecosystems of knowledge, particularly academic, corporate, and government research; science and technology policy; and malign foreign interference.
