U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation

CRDF Global is an "... independent nonprofit organization that promotes international scientific and technical collaboration ..." CRDF Global was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1992 under the Freedom Support Act

Freedom Support Act

The FREEDOM Support Act of 1992 is an act passed by the United States Congress. It is not to be confused with the Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2005 ....

and established in 1995 by the National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

. This unique public-private partnership promotes international scientific and technical collaboration through grants, technical resources, and training.

Mission

Provide cooperative research and development opportunities that enable scientists and engineers to address critical security, economic, education and other societal needs.
Advance peace and prosperity by funding civilian research and development projects that contribute to global nonproliferation objectives.
Promote the application of science and technology to economic growth through international partnerships and training that foster invention, innovation, entrepreneurship and the commercialization of technology.
Strengthen university research and education in science and engineering.

CRDF Global is based in Arlington, Virginia, and has offices in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

and Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

; Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

; Almaty

Almaty

Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...

, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

; and Amman

Amman

Amman is the capital of Jordan. It is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The Greater Amman area has a population of 2,842,629 as of 2010. The population of Amman is expected to jump from 2.8 million to almost...

, Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

.

Between 1995 - 2010, CRDF Global awarded nearly 3,000 grants to more than 13,000 scientists—including 2,500 former weapons researchers—and has committed more than $105 million in total support. In addition to its own funds, CRDF Global has been able to leverage more than $42 million in additional support from foreign governments; as well as cash and in-kind contributions from participating American businesses. In addition to its grantmaking, CRDF Global has a very popular service it provides to organizations seeking to conduct research collaborations abroad, called CRDF Solutions (formerly GAP.) Through this service, CRDF Global has facilitated more than 1,100 individual projects, valued at over $195 million, on behalf of more than 180 business and industry, education and government clients.

CRDF Global's vision

To promote peace and prosperity through international science collaboration.

Key focus areas

CRDF Global believes that the spirit of international science and technology cooperation provides critical benefits to the global community. CRDF Global supports foreign scientists and their U.S. counterparts in exceptional merit-reviewed research projects. These collaborations advance science and technical agendas of both American and foreign science. They also offer foreign scientists and engineers alternatives to emigration; help prevent the dissolution of their scientific and technological infrastructure; and advance the transition of weapons scientists to civilian work. CRDF Global also helps to move applied research to the marketplace by teaming U.S. companies with foreign scientists, and helps to strengthen research and education in universities abroad.

Cooperative Grants – Provides competitive research grants of up to two-year support to joint teams of U.S. and foreign scientists in all areas of basic and applied research and development.
Nonproliferation - Promotes the transition of former weapons scientists to the civilian sector through programs designed to bring together U.S. and foreign researchers on collaborative projects.
Centers, Institution Building & Innovation – Seeks to prevent the dissolution of scientific and technological infrastructure by building new, sustainable institutions that promote transition to the market economy and democratization abroad. Additionally, this division encourages pre-commercial research and development (R&D) collaboration between U.S. industry and foreign scientists and engineers.
Services – Helps organizations successfully implement R&D activities with foreign partners through the CRDF’s banking infrastructure, equipment delivery services, travel services and program management expertise.

Board of Directors

CRDF Global's Board of Directors is co-chaired by Dr. William Wulf

William Wulf

William Allan Wulf is a computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers.Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Illinois, receiving a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering, then achieved the first Ph.D. in Computer Science...

, president emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering and Ms. Dona L. Crawford, associate director of computation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , just outside Livermore, California, is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center founded by the University of California in 1952...

. The other members of the Board of Directors are: Dr. Jaleh Daie, managing partner of Aurora Equity; Dr. Farouk El-Baz

Farouk El-Baz

Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American scientist who worked with NASA to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography.Currently, El-Baz is Research...

, Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University; Dr. Howard Frank, professor of management science, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business; Dr. Irma Gigli, director of the Center for Immunology & Autoimmune Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Dr. S. Malcolm Gillis

S. Malcolm Gillis

Dr. S. Malcolm Gillis is an American academic, and was the sixth president of Rice University in Houston, Texas. He served in this capacity from 1993 until 2004.-Education:* Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida in 1962....

, Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics, William Marsh Rice University; Mr. Paul Longsworth, vice president of new ventures, Fluor Corporation; Dr. John H. Moore, president emeritus of Grove City College

Grove City College

Grove City College is a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania, about north of Pittsburgh. According to the College Bulletin, its stated three-fold mission is to provide an excellent education at an affordable price in a thoroughly Christian environment...

; Dr. Rodney Nichols, president emeritus of the New York Academy of Sciences

New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences is the third oldest scientific society in the United States. An independent, non-profit organization with more than members in 140 countries, the Academy’s mission is to advance understanding of science and technology...

; Dr. Gil Omenn

Gil Omenn

Gilbert Omenn is Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health at the University of Michigan. He is the director of the UM Center for Computational Medicine & Biology and the Proteomics Alliance for Cancer Research....

, professor of internal medicine, human genetics and public health and director of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

; Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, dean of the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific; Dr. Anne C. Petersen, a research professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan; and Dr. Victor Rabinowitch, senior vice president (retired), The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation .

Advisory Council

CRDF Global's Advisory Council is chaired by Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering

Thomas R. Pickering

Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering , is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.-Early life:...

, senior vice president of international relations (retired), The Boeing Company and vice chairman of Hills & Co. The other members of the Advisory Council are: Dr. Zhores I. Alferov, science director, A.F. loffe Physico–Technical Institute

Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute

Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of Russia's largest research centers specialized in physics and technology. The institute was established in 1918 in Petrograd and run for several decades by Abram Fedorovich Ioffe...

; Dr. Gail H. Cassell, Ph.D., vice president of scientific affairs and distinguished research scholar for infectious diseases, Eli Lilly and Company

Eli Lilly and Company

Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...

; Mr. Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

; Ambassador James Franklin Collins

James Franklin Collins

James Franklin Collins is a former United States Ambassador to Russia. A career Foreign Service Officer in the State Department, he is a Russian specialist.- Biography :...

, director and senior associate and diplomat in residence, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a foreign-policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. The organization describes itself as being dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States...

, Dr. Sidney B. Drell, senior fellow, Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then future U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, an early alumnus of Stanford....

; Dr. Loren R. Graham, professor of history and science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

; Dr. William Harris, president and CEO of the Science Foundation Arizona; Dr. Siegfried Hecker, senior fellow and former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...

; Dr. Leon Lederman, a Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

laureate

Laureate

In English, the word laureate has come to signify eminence or association with literary or military glory. It is also used for winners of the Nobel Prize.-History:...

and former director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Dr. Richard Murphy, Ph.D., former president and CEO of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a premier independent, non-profit, scientific research institute located in La Jolla, California. It was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick. Building...

; Dr. Frank Press

Frank Press

Frank Press is an American geophysicist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Press was science advisor to President Jimmy Carter from1976 to 1980,and president of the U.S. NationalAcademy of Sciences from 1981 to 1993...

, principal of The Washington Advisory Group; Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder Henry Shaw, a botanist and philanthropist.-History:...

; Kim Kavrell Savit, international business manager at the Science Applications International Corporation

Science Applications International Corporation

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering and technology applications company headquartered in the United States with numerous federal, state, and private sector clients...

and adjunct professor of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver

University of Denver

The University of Denver is currently ranked 82nd among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report in the 2012 rankings....

; and Dr. Robert M. White, principal at The Washington Advisory Group .

George Brown Award for International Scientific Cooperation

Each year, CRDF Global presents the George Brown Award for International Scientific Cooperation to recognize the late Rep. George E. Brown, Jr.’s

George Brown, Jr.

George Edward Brown, Jr. was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and from 1973 to 1999, representing Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties in California.-Background:Brown was born in Holtville, California...

vision for international research cooperation, and his important role in the efforts leading to CRDF Global’s creation. The award is presented to an individual for his or her critical work in advancing international cooperation in science and technology. The award was first presented in 2005 to mark CRDF Global’s tenth anniversary.

The George Brown Award is open to any individual in the policy, business, science, research, or technology community who has contributed substantially to advancing international science and technology cooperation. In 2011, CRDF Global is recognizing three individuals for their scientific and humanitarian achievements: Dr. Craig Barrett, a faculty member at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and former chairman of the Intel Corporation; Dr. Rita Colwell, chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc., a distinguished university professor both at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a 2011 U.S. science envoy; and Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering

Thomas R. Pickering

Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering , is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.-Early life:...

, vice chairman of Hills & Co., International Consultants, a career ambassador at the U.S. Department of State and the former ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the United Nations.

Past winners include Dr. Bruce Alberts

Bruce Alberts

Bruce Michael Alberts is an American biochemist known for his work in science public policy and as an original author of the Molecular Biology of the Cell...

; the late Dr. Norman Borlaug

Norman Borlaug

Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution". Borlaug was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal...

; U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN); Dr. Yuri Ossipyan

Yuri Osipyan

Yuri Andreevich Osipyan was a Soviet, Russian physicist who worked in the field of solid state physics.Osipyan was born in Moscow and graduated from Georgy Kurdyumov's class at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1955...

; Dr. John "Jack" Gibbons; Dr. King K. Holmes; Dr. Zafra Lerman and Dr. Brian Tucker

Brian Tucker

Brian E. Tucker is a seismologist specialising in disaster prevention.He holds a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, an M.A. in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a B.A....

; and Dr. E. Daniel Hirleman .

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