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Jon Baron
Jon Baron is the Director of the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, a project launched under the sponsorship of the Council for Excellence in Government in September 2001 to promote government policymaking based on rigorous evidence of program effectiveness.
Before joining the Council, he served as the Executive Director of the Presidential Commission on Offsets in International Trade (2000-2001). In that position, he developed and built consensus for a major Commission report to Congress that was approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, with the concurrence of all Commission members.
From 1995-2000, he was the Program Manager for the Defense Department's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which provides over a half-billion dollars each year to small technology companies to develop new commercial/military technologies. In that position, he initiated and led major program reforms that greatly increased the effectiveness of the program in spawning successful new companies and technologies. The reforms received the Vice President's Hammer Award for reinventing government and were recognized by Harvard University’s Innovations Awards Program as one of the top government innovations in the United States.
From May 1993 to May 1994, he was a special assistant for dual-use technology policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. From 1989-1994, he served as counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on Small Business, where among other activities he initiated, led, and worked successfully to secure enactment of legislation establishing the federal Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The program funds cooperative R&D projects involving universities and small technology companies, and was recently reauthorized by Congress and expanded to $130 million per year.
Mr. Baron holds a law degree from Yale Law School, a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Rice University.
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