Mahmud Farooque

Clinical Professor,

Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes

Other ASU affiliations

School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Affiliated Faculty, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes

Affiliated Faculty, Earth Systems Science for the Anthropocene

Senior Global Futures Scholar, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

1800 I Street Washington, DC 20006
Mail code: 6002

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Mahmud’s work at ASU’s Washington Center focuses on linking science policy to better societal outcomes.

He co-leads CSPO’s long-term efforts to build a community of practice among innovative R&D program managers in the government, non-government and private sectors.These include convening informal and formal knowledge exchanges between program managers about the challenges and opportunities for innovating in path dependent institutions.

Mahmud is the principal coordinator of Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST) – a distributive institutional network that brings together research centers, informal science education centers, citizen science programs and non-partisan policy think tanks to engage citizens on decision-making related to science and technology policy. He led large-scale public participation projects on biodiversity, space, climate, and energy to support policy and decision-making at the national and global levels. His recent public engagement projects involve Climate Change Resilience, Gene Drives, Driverless Cars, Geoengineering, Gene Editing and Carbon Dioxide Removal.

Mahmud is a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, editorial board member of TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice (peer reviewed and open access) and advisory board member of ISE — Institute for a Sustainable Earth at George Mason University.

Mahmud was the Deputy Director of Policy Programs at the New York Academy of Science, Director of Collaborative Research at City University of New York, Associate Director for Research Development at Northwestern University, and Managing Director of USDOT Research Center at Purdue University.

Mahmud’s expertise focuses on innovation systems, research management, knowledge co-production, policy entrepreneurship, and participatory technology assessment.

Education

Ph.D. Science, Technology and Public Policy, George Mason University
M.P.A. Technology and Information Policy, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, NY

Curriculum Vitae

Research Website URL

http://cspo.org/

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OWfEl7QAAAAJ

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1694-5581

Research Interests

Science and Technology Policy, Innovation Systems, Research Management, Trans-disciplinary Education and Training, and Participatory Technology Assessment, Policy and Non-Profit Entrepreneurship and Training.

Publications

Journal Articles/Book Chapters

Farooque, M., ed. (2022). The Rightful Place of Science: New Tools for Science Policy, vol. II. Tempe, AZ: Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes.
Sittenfeld, D., Farooque, M., Helmuth, B., Benson, S., Hostetler, E., Choi, F., Weller, N., Nickerson, C., Todd, K. and Cavalier, D. (2022). "Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities: Informing Community Resilience Policies Through Local Knowledge, Community Values, and Community-Generated Data." Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 7(1): 33.
Jennifer Richter, Michael J. Bernstein, Mahmud Farooque, (2022). The process to find a process for governance: Nuclear waste management and consent-based siting in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 87, 102473, ISSN 2214-6296.
Kaplan, L. R., Farooque, M., Sarewitz, D., & Tomblin, D. (2021). Designing Participatory Technology Assessments: A Reflexive Method for Advancing the Public Role in Science Policy Decision-making. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 171(C), 120974–. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120974
Karen L. Akerlof, Taryn Bromser-Kloeden, Kristin Timm, Katherine E. Rowan, James L. Olds, Chris Clarke, Elizabeth Ban Rohring, Emily Therese Cloyd, K. Curran, Elizabeth C. Duesterhoeft, Mahmud Farooque, Erica Goldman, Lisa Gring-Pemble, Stephanie E. Hampton, Sojung Claire Kim, John Kotcher, Darren Milligan, Carlos L. Muñoz Brenes, Cynthia Sandoval, Dann Sklarew, Cynthia Smith, Elizabeth Suhay, David Tomblin, Crystal Upperman, Andrew Wingfield & Xiaoquan Zhao, (2021). "Categorizing Professionals’ Perspectives on Environmental Communication with Implications for Graduate Education." Environmental Communication.
John S. Dryzek, Dianne Nicol, Simon Niemeyer, Sonya Pemberton, Nicole Curato, André Bächtiger, Philip Batterham, Bjørn Bedsted, Simon Burall, Michael Burgess, Gaetan Burgio, Yurij Castelfranchi, Hervé Chneiweiss, George Church, Merlin Crossley, Jantina de Vries, Mahmud Farooque, Marit Hammond, Baogang He, Ricardo Mendonça, Jennifer Merchant, Anna Middleton, John E. J. Rasko, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Antoine Vergne 2020. "Global citizen deliberation on genome editing." Science, 369(6510): 1435-1437.
Cockerill, K., Glynn, P., Chabay, I., Farooque, M., Hämäläinen, R., Miyamoto, B., and McKay, P. “Records of engagement and decision making for environmental and socio-ecological challenges.” EURO Journal on Decision Processes (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40070-019-00104-6
Bednarek A., Wyborn C., Cvitanovic C., Meyer R., Colvin R., Addison P.F.E., Close S.L., Curran K., Farooque M., Goldman E., Hart D., Mannix H., McGreavy B., Parris A., Posner S., Robinson C., Ryan M., and P. Leith (2018). Boundary-spanning at the science-policy interface: The practitioners’ perspectives. Sustainability Science, 13: 1175.
Tomblin, David, Zachary Pirtle, Mahmud Farooque, David Sittenfeld, Erin Mahoney, Rick Worthington, Gretchen Gano, Michele Gates, Jason Kessler, Amy Kaminski, Jason Lloyd, and David Guston (2017). Integrating Public Deliberation into Engineering Systems: Participatory Technology Assessment of NASA’s Asteroid Initiative. Astropolitics 15:2. Pp. 141-166.
Hoffman, Catherine, Caren Cooper, Eric Kennedy, Mahmud Farooque and Darlene Cavalier, 2016. “SciStarter 2.0: A Digital Platform to Foster and Study Sustained Engagement in Citizen Science,” in Ceccaroni and Piera (Eds.) Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research, Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Farooque, Mahmud. 2004. The evolution of technological forecasting and contemporary policy systems, 1935–1999. PhD Dissertation. School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Porter, Alan, Vary Coates, Mahmud Farooque, Richard Klavans, Hal Linstone, Koty Lapid and Carl Pistorius, “The Future of Technological Forecasting,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 67, Spring 2001, pp. 1-17.
Quddus, Munir, Michael Goldsby and Mahmud Farooque, “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity—A Review Article,” Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2000, pp. 87-98

Reports/Magazine Articles

Farooque, Mahmud, and Jason L. Kessler. “How Would You Defend the Planet From Asteroids?” Issues in Science and Technology 39, no. 2 (Winter 2023): 74–80.
Weller, Nicholas, Michelle Sullivan Govani, and Mahmud Farooque. “Need Public Policy for Human Gene Editing, Heatwaves, or Asteroids? Try Thinking Like a Citizen.” Issues in Science and Technology 37, no. 3 (Spring 2021): 12–15.
Nicholas Weller, Michelle Sullivan Govani, and Mahmud Farooque. “Supporting Federal Decision Making through Participatory Technology Assessment.” Day One Project (December 2020).
Weller, Nicholas, Mahmud Farooque, Michelle Sullivan Govani, and Leah Kaplan. “Blinded by the Frontier.” Issues in Science and Technology (July 17, 2020).
Kaplan, Leah, John Nelson, David Tomblin, Mahmud Farooque, Jason Lloyd, Mark Neff, Bjørn Bedsted, and Dan Sarewitz. “Cooling a Warming Planet? Public Forums on Climate Intervention Research.” Washington, DC: ASU Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (November 2019).
Mahmud Farooque, S. Kathleen Barnhill-Dilling, Julie Shapiro, and Jason Delborne. “Exploring Stakeholder Perspectives on the Development of a Gene Drive Mouse for Biodiversity Protection on Islands” Workshop Report. June 2019.
Farooque, M., Kaplan, L., Quash, K., and Lloyd, J. “Boundary Practitioners Workshop Report – Missions Control for Earth.” Washington, DC: ASU Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (February 2019).
Jason Delborne, Julie Shapiro, Mahmud Farooque, Tyler Ford, Dalton George, and Sonia Dermer. “Exploring Stakeholder Perspectives on the Development of a Gene Drive Mouse for Biodiversity Protection on Islands.” Summary Report of Stakeholder Interviews. February 2019.
Tomblin, David, Jay Lloyd, Mahmud Farooque, Kimberly Quach and Daniel Sarewitz (2018). “Driverless Vehicles: What Priorities Should be at the Top of Our List.” Issues Advisory, Dayton, OH: National Issues Forum Institute.
Delborne, J., Farooque, M., and Shapiro, J. (2017). Genetically Engineered Algae Public Engagement Strategies: A Stakeholder Workshop Report. Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST) Network.
Tomblin, D., R. Worthington, G. Gano, M. Farooque, D. Sittenfeld, and J. Lloyd, 2015. Informing NASA’s Asteroid Initiative: A Citizen’s Forum. Washington DC: Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology.
Beier P, D. Behar, L. Hansen, L. Helbrecht, J. Arnold, C. Duke, M. Farooque, P. Frumhoff, L. Irwin, J. Sullivan, J. Williams, 2015. Guiding principles and recommended practices for co-producing actionable science: a How-To Guide for DOI Climate Science Centers and the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center. Washington, DC: Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science.
Worthington, Richard, Darlene Cavalier, Mahmud Farooque, Gretchen Gano, Henry Geddes, Steven Sander, David Sittenfeld and David Tomblin, 2012. Technology Assessment and Public Participation: From TA to pTA. Washington, DC: Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology.
Farooque, Mahmud, Veronica Hendrickson and My Linh Nguyen (Eds.), Tri-State Trends, New York: New York Academy of Sciences, July 2001-Aug 2002.
Schintler, Laurie and Mahmud Farooque, Partners in Motion and Traffic Congestion in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area, Washington DC: Federal Highway Administration, Virginia Department of Transportation, July 2001.

Research Activity

PI, “Global Center for Climate Intervention Research,” (NSF: $ 99,963) 2023-2024
PI, “Public Forums on CDR in the U.S. and Canada,” (Alfred P. Sloan: $249,992) 2022-2024
PI, “Human Gene Editing Issue Guide,” (Kettering Foundation: $20,000) 2019-2020
PI, “ECAST-ASTC Community Innovation Fellowship Program,” (PIT-UN: $180,000) 2019-2020
Co-PI, “Preparing for Genomic Editing Technologies: An Anticipatory Approach,” (NIH: $541,365) 2019-2022
PI, “Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC),” (NOAA: $100,898) 2018-2021
Senior Personnel, “Participatory Technology Assessment and Cultures of Expertise,” (NSF: $5,200) 2018-2021
PI, “Navigating Our Shared Driverless Futures,” (Charles Koch Institute: $200,000) 2018-2019
PI, “Look who’s Driving,” (Kikim Media/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: $60,000) 2018-2019
PI, “Mission Control for Earth Workshop,” (Windward Fund: $28,701) 2018-2019
Co-PI, “Democratic Governance of Geoengineering Research,” (Alfred P. Sloan: $299,574) 2017-2019
PI, ASU – Missions Publiques – Self-driving Cars MOU, Paris, France 2017-2018
PI, ASU - ICCCAD - Data Sharing, MOU, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2017-2018
Co-PI, “Driverless Car Issue Guide,” (Kettering Foundation: $20,000) 2017-2018
Co-PI, “Science Center Public Forums,” (NOAA: $499,901) 2015-2018
PI, “Participatory Engagement for Energy Policy Planning and Decision-making,” (Allegheny Science & Technology/DOE: $1,080,170) 2016-2017
Co-PI, “Participatory Technology Assessment of NASA’s Asteroid Initiative,” (NASA: $196,908) 2014-2015

Courses

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies
PIT 504	Public Engagement Strategies

Presentations

“Participatory Technology Assessment for Public Value Science,” International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation, National Academy of Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Washington, DC, June 7, 2022.
“The Complexity of Threats to Civic Dialogue about Science,” Re-Imagining Science Communication in the COVID Era and Beyond: The 5th National Academies Science Communication Colloquium, National Academy of Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Washington, DC, June 1, 2022.
“A Reflexive Method for Advancing the public role in Science and Technology,” Committee on Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation: Virtual Workshop, National Academy of Medicine, April 14, 2022, Online.
“Science for the Public Good: Who is Benefiting?” Baker Institute for Science & Technology Policy Seminar, Rice University, September 22, 2021, Online.
“Public Engagement: Techniques for Bi-Directional Conversations with the Public about M-CELS,” Workshop on Multicellular Engineered Living Systems (M-CELS) 2021, June 1st - 3rd, 2021, Online.
"A Research Infrastructure for Maximizing Public Value of Science," Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Research and Technology Hearing on: National Science Foundation: Advancing Research for the Future of U.S. Innovation Part II, May 6, 2021, Online.
“Best practices and lessons learned for the co-production of scientific products used by stakeholders and decision-makers,” Ecological Forecasting Initiative Co-production and Actionable Science Model, May 4, 2021, Online.
“Towards a 21st Century Participatory Model for Citizen Engagement for Environmental Protection in Bangladesh,” BAPA-BEN 4th International Conference on Bangladesh Environment, December 27, 2020, Online.
“Citizen Participation in Global Governance of the Internet,” IEEE ISTAS 2020, November 14, 2020, Online.
“Public Interest Technology Community Innovation Fellowship (PITCIF),” Collaborating and Learning as a PIT Educator, PIT-UN 2020 Convening, November 13, 2020, Online.
“Public Interest Technology Community Innovation Fellowship: Innovations from Shifting to Virtual Public Dialogue Forums,” ASTC Annual Conference, October 21, 2020, Online.
“Participatory Technology Assessment,” Online Workshop Public Engagement with Science: Defining and Measuring Success, Panel 5: Demographically Representative Samples, Michigan State University, September 11, 2020.
“Science Engagement with the Public,” The Endless Frontier—the Next 75 years in Science, A symposium on the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of Vannevar Bush’s Science – The Endless Frontier, National Academy of Science, Engineering and Mathematics, February 26, 2020.
“Navigating Our Automated Mobility Futures: Results from Public Forums in the United States and Abroad,” Issues Affecting Public Acceptance of Automated Vehicles, Chair’s Panel, Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 13, 2020.
“Our Driverless Futures: Informing Autonomous Vehicle Design Through Participatory Technology Assessment,” Workshop on Driverless Mobility Worldwide Dialogue: Key Learnings, Brussels, Belgium, December 9-10, 2019.
“Science and Technology of the People, by the People and for the People,” Biotechnology & Ideology Week, Biotechnology Fellowship Program, Cornell Alliance for Science, Ithaca, NY, Friday, October 11, 2019.
“Innovating with the Public – One Deliberation at a Time,” Symposium: Interrogating Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 16, 2019.
“Scalable, Replicable, and Comparable Multi-site Participatory Engagement for Research, Education and Policy,” How should we conduct broad public deliberation? Hasting Center Meeting 2, Gene Editing and Public Deliberation, Garrison, NY, June 20, 2019
“When Citizen Talk to Experts about Driverless Mobility: Five Lessons from the International Citizen Dialogue,” Movin’On Summit, Montreal, Canada, June 6, 2019
“Science and Technology of the People, by the People and for the People,” IEEE Standards Association-MIT Media Lab Council on Extended Intelligence meeting, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, Tuesday, May 22, 2019
“Research Agendas of the People, by the People and for the People,” 2019 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum, Washington, DC, May 2, 2019.

Editorships

Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, May 2021 - Present
NEXTRANSporter, Purdue University NEXTRANS Center, June 2008 - Nov 2009.
OAA Research Newsletter, City University of New York-Office of Academic Affairs, June 2005-Sep 2006.
Tri-State Trends, New York: New York Academy of Sciences, July 2001-Aug 2002.

Work History

Clinical Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University (2023-Present)
Clinical Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University (2016-2023)
Associate Director, DC Office, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO), Arizona State University (2009-Present)
Managing Director, USDOT Region V Regional University Transportation Center, Purdue University (2007-2009)
Associate Director of Physical Science and Engineering, Office for Research Development, Northwestern University (2006-2007)
Director for Collaborative Research Projects, Office of Research, City University of New York (2004-2006)
Deputy Director, Policy Program, New York Academy of Sciences (2001-2002)
Research Assistant, Center for Transportation Analysis, George Mason University (1999-2001)
Research Assistant, Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Columbia University (1998-1999)
Research Assistant, Center for Regional Analysis, George Mason University (1996-1998)
Research Assistant, Center for Technology and Information Policy, Syracuse University (1995-1996)
Research Assistant, Center for Global Studies, Houston Advanced Research Center (1995-1995)
Intern, Associate Engineer, Engineer; Electrical Engineering Design Department, M.W. Kellogg Company (1989-1993)

Service

National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST), Member, 2023-Present
Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice (TATuP), Member, Editorial Board, 2021-Present
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Member, Advisory Council, Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE), 2021-Present,
World Economic Forum, Strategic Intelligence Unit, Contributor: Map on Civic Participation, 2020
IEEE Standards Association & MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, Member, Council on Extended Intelligence, 2018-2020
American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, Member, Advisory Board, Thriving Earth Exchange, 2015-2018
U.S. Department of Interior, Reston, VA, Member, Climate Science Center Federal Advisory Board, Actionable Science Work Group, 2014-2015
International Social Science Council (ICSU), Paris, France, Member, Expert Committee, Belmont Forum/Future Earth Trans-disciplinary Training Proposal, 2014
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, Member, Science & Technology Policy Fellowship Selection Committee, 2011-2013; 2017-2019

Consulting

Oregon State University, Portland, OR, Advisor, NSF Award (#1906998): The Circuit: A Platform for Increasing Access to, Deepening and Researching patterns of Family and Adult Participation in Informal Science, 2019-Present
Museum of Science, Boston, MA, Advisor, NSF Award (# 1811118): Building Capacity for Co-Created Public Engagement with Science, 2018-Present
Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI), Washington, DC, Member, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Science & Technology Futures Expert Panel, 2018
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Consultant, Public engagement, DARPA’s Genetic Biocontrol of Invasive Rodents (GBIRd) Project, 2017-2019

Industry Positions

Kellogg, Brown and Root (formerly M.W. Kellogg Company), Houston, TX, Engineering Tech, Associate Engineer, Engineer—Electrical Design Engineering Department, 1989 - 1993

City of Austin Electric Utility, Austin, TX, Cooperative Education Student; Relay and Substation Control Engineering Department, 1986 - 1988

Expertise Areas

Energy and Sustainability

Energy Policy

History of Science

Human Dimensions of Science and Technology

Public Policy

Science Policy