George Keyworth is chairman of The Progress and Freedom Foundation. Simultaneously, he remains chairman of The Keyworth Company, a firm established in 1986 to work with companies in developing strategies for growth based on emerging and changing technologies. From May 1981 to January 1986, Keyworth was Science Advisor to President Reagan and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. As the senior technical member of the President's staff, he led the Administration's effort to capitalize on U.S. science and technology to strengthen industrial competitiveness. In 1984 he was a member of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness. Prior to his White House Service, Keyworth was Director of the Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he led the Laboratory's programs in experimental physics, condensed matter research, astrophysics and space science, and laser fusion. As a research scientist Keyworth's contributions include pioneering work in high-resolutioned spectroscopy. As a formulator of policy, he has had widespread interactions with science and defense policy makers in many other countries. He received his B.S. in Physics from Yale University in 1963. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 1968 from Duke University.