Kenneth Oye
Professor of Political Science and Engeneering Systems,
MIT
Kenneth Oye holds a joint appointment in Political Science and Engineering Systems, with research and teaching on international relations, political economy and technology policy. His books include Cooperation under Anarchy, Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange, and the “Eagle” monographs on American foreign policy. His recent studies on technology policy has been published in Science, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Politics and the Life Sciences and Issues in Science and Technology. He serves as Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET), as a member of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center and the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation, and as Director of Policy and Practices for NSF SynBERC. In the past several years, he has served as an invited expert to the UN BWC, the WHO, PCAST and the National Research Council. Professor Oye is a recipient of the Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching (2011), the Graduate Council Teaching Award (1998) and the Technology and Policy Program Faculty Appreciation Award (2003). Before coming to MIT, he taught at Harvard, the University of California, Princeton and Swarthmore. He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Swarthmore with Highest Honors and a Ph.D in Political Science from Harvard with the Chase Dissertation Prize.