Dr. Deborah D. Stine is Professor of the Practice for the Engineering and Public Policy Department and Associate Director for Policy Outreach for the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University

She was Executive Director of President Obama’s PCAST (the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) at the White House from 2009-2012. From 2007- 2009, she was a science and technology policy specialist with the Congressional Research Service, where she wrote reports and advised members of Congress on science and technology policy issues.

From 1989-2007, she was at the National Academies – the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine – where she was associate director of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; director of the National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program; and director of the Office of Special Projects. Prior to coming to the Academies, she was a mathematician for the Air Force, an air-pollution engineer for the state of Texas, and an air-issues manager for the Chemical Manufacturers Association.

While at the National Academies, she received the Presidents’ Award– the highest staff award offered at the US National Academy. In 2016, the Carnegie Science “science

communicator” award and a Women in Energy Leadership award from the Pittsburgh Business Times for her work for CMU’s Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. That

same year, she received the “best new idea” award from the American Society of Engineering Education for her teaching of non-market analysis to engineers, and in 2017, she was named a VentureWell Faculty Scholar for her work on energy innovation and entrepreneurship.

She holds a BS in mechanical and environmental engineering from the University of California, Irvine, an MBA from what is now Texas A&M at Corpus Christi, and a PhD in public administration with a focus on science and technology policy analysis from American University.