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Biotechnology is rapidly evolving and has vast growth potential. Up to 60 percent of the global economy's physical inputs are expected to be produced biologically before the end of this century. The United States has thus far failed to fully grasp the scale of biotechnology’s opportunities, including diverse strategic implications.

Bio-Strategies and Leadership (BSL) at Hoover ensures that the United States and its allies understand biology as a strategic domain and act accordingly. BSL products are designed to help leaders realize flourishing and democratic futures. Ongoing work is focused on economic and technical competitiveness plus national security, including public health.

BSL engages state, national, and international policymakers and business leaders of today and the next generation via scholarship, education, and translation.

Core projects now underway include:

The Bio-Strategies and Leadership Congressional Fellowship Program engages mid- to senior-level congressional staffers from the two major political parties and both chambers in a two-day program centered on emerging biotechnology.

The Bio-Strategies and Leadership Working Group brings together industry leaders, scholars, and public policy makers in pursuit of developing policy solutions.

Foundational research projects focused on (1) the possibilities and strategic opportunities embedded within the biotic future and (2) a realistic approach to biosecurity.

Leadership
Drew Endy

Drew Endy

Science Fellow/Senior Fellow (courtesy)

Drew Endy is a science fellow and senior fellow (courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. He leads Hoover’s Bio-Strategy and Leadership effort, which focuses on keeping increasingly biotic futures secure, flourishing, and democratic. Professor Endy also researches and teaches bioengineering at Stanford University, where he is the Martin Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, senior fellow (courtesy) of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and faculty codirector of degree programs for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

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Program Management
Jacquelyn Johnstone

Jacquelyn Johnstone

Assistant Director for Institutional Programming

Jacquelyn Johnstone is Assistant Director for Institutional Programming at the Hoover Institution where she is responsible for strategy, planning, resourcing, execution and delivery of several new and existing research and engagement programs.  She also worked in the financial sector and as a consultant on open data and privacy regulations in Australia and the UAE. Jacquelyn held positions in both the U.S. State and Defense Departments and was Deputy Director of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest independent media company. She began her career in communications and was the Marketing Director of Wired magazine. Jacquelyn holds a MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Tanner Braman

Tanner Braman

Senior Research Program Manager

Tanner Braman is a senior research program manager for the Hoover Institution's Bio-Strategies and Leadership Program. His research focuses on policy issues in biosecurity and the emerging bioeconomy. Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, he was Chief of Staff to Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and a Director at the consulting firm Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC. Tanner studied chemistry and international relations at William & Mary and is an ACS-certified chemist and biochemist.

Sarah Moront

Sarah Moront

Senior Research Program Manager

Sarah Moront is a Senior Research Program Manager with the Hoover Institution’s Bio-Strategies and Leadership initiative. Prior to joining Hoover, she was the Deputy Policy Director for a presidential campaign and policy organization for several years. Earlier in her career, she served in the Peace Corps in the South Pacific. She attended the University of Virginia.

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