Now I am working as a freelance consultant. I plan to pursue a career in organizational development while deepening my understanding of innovation, management and governance as a professional student in George Washington University's PhD program in public policy. My goal is to use insights and tools from the analytical sciences to break new ground in routinizing innovation in management and governance. I believe that progress in governance, both in the public and the private sector, remains the single most important collective task of the new century -- the key to all other collective problems. Governance includes not just government or statecraft, but the larger problem of organizing human activity, a task greatly complicated by intrinsic tensions between individual needs and goals, and the needs and goals of groups.

My interest in policy and governance has had a long genesis, and took its present shape in 2005, after I became interested in organizational sociology and the dynamics of collective systems. Through 2004, my research explored learning, cooperation and social dilemmas using multiagent-based simulation tools.

I studied physics and mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, then shifted focus to several other areas, including renewable energy and sustainable development, nuclear non-proliferation (focusing on the independent states of the former Soviet Union), and learning and education.

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