Evan S. Michelson

Evan S. Michelson is a Director at the Markle Foundation, overseeing research activities and the systemic collection, analysis, and dissemination of forward-looking information covering a wide range of technology, economic, and policy issues. Michelson has experience designing trend monitoring, horizon scanning, and strategic foresight processes in the social sector, and he leads the production of the rigorous evidence-base that enables Markle to fulfill its mission.

Previously, Michelson was an Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he created and implemented a global network of horizon scanning organizations and guided the Foundation’s early stage idea generation efforts. Michelson also served as a Research Associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, where he conducted nanotechnology policy analysis and co-created the first publicly available inventory of nanotechnology consumer products. He has worked as a visiting researcher in the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, and he developed public outreach and education programs as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences.

Michelson has co-edited two special issues of the journal Foresight and has published numerous articles and book chapters in journals and collections such as Public Administration Review, Science and Public Policy, Development, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Technology in Society, and The Innovation Imperative. Michelson received a M.A. in international science and technology policy from George Washington University, a M.A. in the philosophical foundations of physics from Columbia University, and a B.A. in philosophy of science from Brown University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.