Richard Danzig

Senior Advisor, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

About

Dr. Richard Danzig is a Senior Advisor to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, a consultant to the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Chair of the Advisory Panel for Idaho National Laboratories’ Innovation Center, and a member of the Toyota Research Institute Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, and the Homeland Security Secretary’s Advisory Council, a Trustee of Reed College and of the RAND Corporation, a Director of the Center for a New American Security and a Director of Saffron Hill Ventures. Dr. Danzig served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy and as a senior advisor on national security issues to President Obama throughout the 2008 election. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and has served in recent years as a consultant to the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security on national security issues. He received a B.A. degree from Reed College, a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, and Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Upon his graduation from Yale, Dr. Danzig served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White.

Richard Danzig

Speaker Session

Speaker Sessions

Day 2
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9:25 AM EST

Session VI: Implications – Science Advising: Achievements, Mistakes, & Lacunae So Far

We learned more about COVID-19 as the pandemic accelerated—how the virus is transmitted, the best ways to treat it, and how to stop its spread. Health advisors from the United States, Korea, China, and Nigeria discuss what we got right and where science advisors can do better in the future.

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