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Tom Kalil, deputy director for policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), will address the opening plenary of the ISE Summit 2010 on Thursday, March 4.

OSTP was established in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs. OSTP also leads interagency efforts to develop sound science and technology policies and budgets and to work with the private sector, state and local governments, the science and higher education communities, and other nations toward this end.

Before his return to the White House, where he had served an earlier term as deputy assistant to the President for technology and economic policy, Mr. Kalil was special assistant to the chancellor for science and technology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he helped develop multidisciplinary research and education initiatives in such fields as nanotechnology, information technology, clean energy, and life sciences. Earlier, he was, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the National Economic Council's "point person" on a wide range of science, technology, and innovation issues, including the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Next Generation Internet, liberalization of computer export controls, and education technology.