About Athar Athar Osama brings a unique blend of academic insight and hands-on implementation experience to science and innovation policy having worked across policy research, consulting, and management realms. Athar is the Director of Middle East and Asia for a UK-based technology and innovation policy and management consulting firm with offices in United States and the Middle East where he specializes in an array of science and innovation policy issues with special emphasis on program design and delivery and policy implementation. Prior to that, Athar worked at the RAND Corporation where he worked on strategic planning, performance measurement, and incentives systems in R&D and was a part of a team that helped create US Army's Venture Capital Fund. Athar's areas of interest and expertise are development and analysis of higher education, research and commercialization, and entrepreneurial systems; the creation of information technology industries in developing countries; and the role of public policy in creating techno-economic clusters around the world. Last year, Athar published an article in the Journal Nature on Pakistan's Higher Education Reform Experiment. In 2005, Athar authored the first ever National Study of information technology industry for Pakistan. He also writes a regular column on Science in the Islamic World for Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) – a UK based charity focussed on promoting the use of science for development in the South. Athar holds a PhD in public policy with a specialization in science, technology, and innovation policy from the Frederick S. Pardee – RAND Graduate School for Public Policy in Santa Monica, CA. Athar also has a bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering and is a graduate of Pakistan’s Airforce Academy where he also won the coveted “Sword of Honor” for his all-round performance.

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