Biography of Speaker - Dan Byers
Deputy Associate Director, OSTPDan Byers has been Deputy Associate Director for Technology at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) since July 2006 after previously having served as Deputy Chief of Staff. From 2000-2005, Mr. Byers worked in several positions on Capitol Hill, first as a legislative assistant and American Association for the Advancement of Science/Soil Science Society of America Congressional Fellow in the office of Congressman Nick Smith (R-MI), and later as staff director of the House Science Subcommittee on Research.
As Deputy of OSTP's Technology Division, Byers is responsible for lead support on all technology-related issues associated with OSTP's two primary statutory responsibilities: advising the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on all science and technology-related matters; and leading interagency efforts to develop and to implement sound science and technology policies and budgets. These issues include several multi-billion dollar Federal R&D efforts, including the Networking and Information Technology R&D Program (NITRD), the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), and Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) and related energy R&D programs.
