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Peter Cowhey Named Vice Chair of California Council on Science and Technology (CCST)

Mim John, Peter Cowhey Named New CCST Chair and Vice Chair

01/10/2011
California Council on Science and Technology

Miriam John, former Vice President of the California Division of the Sandia National Laboratories, has been named the new Chair of the California Council on Science and Technology effective January 1. Council member Peter Cowhey has been named the new Vice Chair.

"Mim brings to the position a depth and breadth of experience as a senior executive with Sandia, together with significant advisory roles for Department of Defense agencies," said CCST Board Chair Karl Pister. "I look forward to her tenure as chair."

Prior to her position as Vice President at Sandia, John served in a number of managerial and technical roles for the laboratory, whose principal programs include nuclear weapons stewardship, weapons demilitarization, chemical/bio- logical weapons defense, combustion and materials research, advanced lithography development, micro-chemical and remote laser based chemical detection, and distributed, secure advanced computational and information systems. She served two terms as a CCST Council member (2003-2009) and as the Council Vice Chair from 2009-2010.

Newly appointed Vice Chair Cowhey is the Qualcomm Professor of Communications and Technology Policy and Dean at the University of California, San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. For the past year he has also served as Senior Counselor to the U.S. Trade Representative on strategy and negotiations, an appointment that concludes in February. Cowhey has been a member of the CCST Council since 2007.

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