Biography:

Mahlet N. Mesfin is the deputy director of the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy, where she leads the Science Diplomacy program and serves as executive editor of the quarterly journal Science & Diplomacy.

Prior to joining AAAS, she was the Assistant Director for International Science and Technology (S&T) at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She led the strategic planning, coordination, and execution of the S&T-focused engagements under the responsibility of the US President�s Science Advisor; including engagements with China, Japan, India, South Korea, Brazil, and the G7 Science Ministers, and championed S&T as an element of the broader US government�s foreign policy agenda. She has also been an S&T policy fellow in the Basic Research Office at the US Department of Defense and the US National Academy of Sciences and Engineering.

She received a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, an MSE in Biomedical Engineering and a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Additionally she is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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