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Deborah Wince-Smith is President of the Council on Competitiveness, the only national organization whose membership is comprised exclusively of CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders. From 1989 to 1993, she served as first assistant secretary for technology policy in the Department of Commerce's Technology Administration. She also chaired the Interagency Committee on Federal Technology Transfer and directed the president's National Technology Initiative. Previously, she was the U.S. representative to the multilateral Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Consortium with government and global private-sector leaders. During the Reagan administration, she served as assistant director for international affairs and competitiveness in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Wince-Smith serves on a number of boards and committees, including the board of directors of Nasdaq, the National Science Board's Task Force on Transformative Research, the secretary of energy advisory board's Task Force on Nuclear Power and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She is a trustee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a national juror for the MIT Lemelson Award for Invention. Wince-Smith received a master's degree from King's College at Cambridge University.

Panel:
North American Competitiveness: United We Stand, Divided We Fall

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