Senior Policy Associate
Maeve Skelly
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Maeve Skelly is formerly a Senior Policy Associate for Technology & Innovation. Prior to joining FAS, she worked at the Learning Policy Institute to conduct case study research on the effects of performance-based assessments in undergraduate admissions practices. Her previous experience also includes time spent at the GLOBSEC policy institute, supporting events and publications on EU relations. Maeve is from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan where she studied Public Policy, Philosophy, and Statistics.

publications
Emerging Technology
Report
Science and Innovation in the 118th Congress

To help seed the ground for bipartisan progress, we’ve put together a menu of the best policy ideas on a range of critical topics.

01.12.23 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
Report
118th Congress: Bioeconomy & Health Security

For the United States, the economic, societal, and national security benefits of the life sciences are vast. The U.S. bioeconomy – the part of the economy driven by the life sciences and biotech, and enabled by engineering, computing, and information science – is valued at over $950 billion. Life sciences research leads to cleaner crops […]

01.12.23 | 9 min read
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Emerging Technology
Report
118th Congress: Resilient Agriculture, Society & Environment

Over the past several years, instability has been a national and global constant. The COVID-19 pandemic upended supply chains and production systems. Floods, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, and fires have imposed catastrophic consequences and forced people to reconsider where they can safely live. Russia’s war with Ukraine and other geopolitical conflicts have forced countries around […]

01.12.23 | 5 min read
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Environment
Blog
Innovators’ Moonshots Should Guide New Food Security Policies

One of the most urgent challenges discussed the past few weeks at COP27 was climate adaptation—how to secure and empower communities worldwide that are already in the throes of climate change’s worst impacts. U.S. policymakers have rightly recognized climate adaptation and food security as growing intertwined national security and development aid priorities. Yet most acute climate adaptation challenges like […]

12.05.22 | 4 min read
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Education & Workforce
day one project
Policy Memo
Strengthening and Diversifying the Biomedical Research Workforce Through a National Institutes of Health and Department of Education Collaboration

Addressing health inequities and serving our nation’s diverse population requires an equally diverse biomedical workforce.

11.22.22 | 7 min read
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Government Capacity
Blog
What we learned in Mexico City

Moonshots seem impossible—until they’ve hit their target. This was the mantra of our in-person accelerator workshop, hosted with our partners at Unlock Aid in Mexico City. The workshop was just one part of our larger accelerator process where we’re working with innovators to develop moonshots around global development targets. FAS’s largest policy-development convening to date […]

09.12.22 | 3 min read
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Government Capacity
Blog
The Day One Project is going international!

We’ll be spending this week in Mexico City with our partners at Unlock Aid, where we’ll be co-hosting the Reimagining the Future of Global Development Moonshot Accelerator. This will be our eighth accelerator cohort, and the very first in-person group. 

08.16.22 | 3 min read
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