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Kenneth Flamm
Kenneth Flamm is the Dean Rusk Professor of International Affairs at the LBJ School at the University of Texas–Austin. Before this, he worked at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C, where he served eleven years as a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program. He is a 1973 honors graduate of Stanford University and received a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1979. From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Flamm served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic Security and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Dual Use Technology Policy. He was awarded the Department's Distinguished Public Service Medal by Defense Secretary William J. Perry in 1995.
Dr. Flamm has been a professor of economics at the Instituto Tecnológico de México in Mexico City, the University of Massachusetts, and George Washington University. He has also been an adviser to the Director General of Income Policy in the Mexican Ministry of Finance and a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, the National Academy of Sciences, the Latin American Economic System, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S Agency for International Development, and the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress. He has played an active role in the National Research Council’s committee on Government-Industry Partnerships, under the direction of Gordon Moore, and played a key role in that study’s review of the SBIR program at the Department of Defense.
Dr. Flamm has made major contributions to our understanding of the growth of the electronics industry, with a particular focus on the development of the computer and the U.S. semiconductor industry. He is currently working on an analytical study of the post-Cold War defense industrial base and has expert knowledge of international trade and high technology industry issues.
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