The State of Innovation Summit 2009

Since 2000, George Campbell has been president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, an all honors college and one of America’s most selective institutions of higher education.  Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Campbell, a physicist, held various R&D and management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and served as CEO of NACME Inc.  He’s a Director of Consolidated Edison, Inc., Barnes and Noble Inc. and a Trustee of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Montefiore Medical Center, the Institute of International Education and The New York Hall of Science.  Earlier in his career, Campbell served on the faculties of Nkumbi International College in Zambia and Syracuse University.  He has published numerous papers in physics and science and technology policy and is co-editor of Access Denied: Race, Ethnicity and the Scientific Enterprise.  A former Simon Guggenheim Scholar, he’s a Fellow of the AAAS and the New York Academy of Sciences.  Campbell earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Syracuse University, a B.S. in physics from Drexel University and is a graduate of the Yale Executive Management Program.