About the Author

Denis F. Cioffi, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Management Science, is Director of the Project Management Program, School of Business and Public Management, at The George Washington University.

Dr. Cioffi received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany, an M.A. from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado. After several years of astrophysics research (at the University of California at Berkeley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and North Carolina State University), he made a transition to management by becoming an Associate Program Director at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Cioffi spent 1996 in the Executive Office of the President, where he was a Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He returned to academia with a position at George Mason University, where he was a Research Fellow at the Center for Science, Trade, and Technology Policy.