Kathie Olsen is deputy director and chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation and former deputy director for science of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously she was chief scientist at NASA. She spoke at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia about the need to create a national science policy to guide the country through the next hundred years.
“Today the global economy is tightly linked to science, mathematics and engineering,” Olsen says. “Wise federal spending on science and technology is good economic policy.”