Philip Rubin elected to National Academy of Public Administration

Philip Rubin, the principal assistant director for science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Currently, Rubin is on leave as the chief executive officer of Haskins Laboratories, a private, non-profit research institute affiliated with Yale, whose primary focus is on speech, language and reading, and their biological basis. Rubin is a senior scientist at the institute and an adjunct professor in the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine. He also leads the White House neuroscience initiative and co-chairs the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Science.

The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization established to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations. Academy fellows include nearly 800 individuals who have served as cabinet officers, members of Congress and governors, as well as prominent scholars, business executives, and public administrators.

Rubin is a cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator who for many years has been involved with issues of science advocacy, education, funding, and policy. His research spans a number of disciplines, combining computational, engineering, linguistic, physiological, and psychological approaches to study embodied cognition, most particularly the biological bases of speech and language.