House of Representatives’ Science and Technology Committee. He has been chief editor of two specialized newsletters, New York-based Metals Week and DC-based New Technology Week, and senior editor of a third, Manufacturing and Technology News, also based in DC; a former foreign correspondent, he reported from Paris for BusinessWeek and from Amsterdam for the Associated Press. He has also contributed to a half-dozen published reports of the National Academies’ Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, and authored the 1994 book Embattled Selves: An Investigation into the Nature of Identity Through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he currently resides in nearby Alameda.