Caroline Wagner is an expert in the field of science and technology and its association to policy, society and innovation. She is an SRI International senior analyst and a George Washington University Center for International Science and Technology Policy research scientist. She also wrote a book titled The New Invisible College: Science for Development in 2007.

In her 25 years as a devotee in science policy, Wagner has been appointed several policy and analytic positions. In fact, she was the deputy to the director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute at the RAND Corporation. The institute is a research facility that serves the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Before Dr. Caroline S. Wagner was in RAND, she used to be in the United States Congress Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Congressional Office of technology Assessment professional staff member.

At the United States federal government, Dr. Wagner has acted as an analyst examining global improvements in science and technology. She has also been an advisor to the European Commission, the World Bank, the United States National Science Foundation, the Organization for Economic and several other governments. At the United Nations Millennium Development Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation, she took part in the task force’s report as its primary author.

By 2006, she was chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As an author, she has written over 20 monographs that are found on RAND’s official site and other journal articles.

Dr. Caroline S. Wagner has a doctorate degree that she earned at the University of Amsterdam in Science and Technology Dynamics, an MA degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy at GWU and a BA degree in Philosophy at Trinity University.

She currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband and three children.