David M. Hart
Associate Professor
personal
website : mason.gmu.edu/~dhart/
dhart@gmu.edu
703.993.2279
703.993.2284 fax
George Mason School of Public Policy
4400 University Drive MS 3C6
Fairfax VA 22030
Education
Ph.D., M.I.T
B.A., Wesleyan University
Biography
David Hart has made it his business to
understand how public policy influences
scientific knowledge and technological
innovation. By setting developments in science and technology in
their
broader social, political, and economic
context, he provides insights to
practitioners, scholars, and students about how to manage change
for the greater benefit of society.
Dr.
Hart taught for a decade at the Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard
University before taking up his
present position
as a tenured professor in George
Mason University’s
School of Public Policy. He is an award-winning teacher, offering general
courses on policy-making and political strategy as well as specialized
courses dealing with information technology, biotechnology, and other
aspects of the global knowledge economy. Hart’s students
have gone on to influential positions
in government, academia, industry, and
the non-profit sector.
Dr.
Hart’s research focuses on how private and public actors
craft policies together. His most recent major publication is The Emergence
of Entrepreneurship Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His
work reaches the policy community as well as scholars, appearing such
venues in Nature, Issues in Science and Technology, and the Congressional
Quarterly Press. Hart’s expertise is frequently drawn
upon by journalists; he has been quoted
in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune,
Science, National Journal, and The Boston
Globe, among others. He has worked
with an array of public and private organizations in the U.S.
and abroad, including the U.S.
National Research
Council, the Whitehead
Institute for Biomedical Research,
the National Natural Sciences
Foundation of China, and the U.K. Treasury Department.
Dr.
Hart regularly organizes programs and panels, and has
directed several major conferences.
He currently chairs the Don K. Price Prize
Committee of the American Political
Science Association, which recognizes
the best book in science and
technology policy. He is a
member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science,
the American Political Science Association, the Business
History Conference, the Midwest
Political Science Association,
the Organization of American Historians,
and the Society for the History
of Technology.
Areas of
Expertise
• Science and technology policy
• Governance
• Entrepreneurship and innovation
• Lobbying and interest groups