Michelle Sullivan Govani designs significant opportunities to partner with and invest in Arizona State University and leads programs that support ASU teams to build better big ideas and secure philanthropic investments to advance their ideas that have the potential to transform society by tackling our greatest challenges. She also serves as the lead for priority development opportunities with ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise and manages strategy in science philanthropy. In addition, Michelle teaches and advances her applied scholarship in science and technology policy, public engagement, and public value science as an affiliate of ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society.
The next administration should establish a Participatory Technology Assessment unit to ensure federal S&T decisions benefit society.
The federal government should broaden institutional capacity to collect and integrate evidence on public values into policy and decision making.