George Strawn joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1991 and has served as Chief Information Officer since
2002, where he guides the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology. He also serves as
co-chair of both the interagency Large Scale Networking Working Group and the international Coordinating Committee for
Intercontinental Research Networks. In his numerous roles at the NSF, he helped define and deploy the "new"
(privatized) Internet architecture and led an initiative that created the first national high-performance network
testbed. Before coming to the NSF, Strawn was a computer science faculty member at Iowa State University, where he
chaired the Department of Computer Science from 1983 to 1986 and served as Director of the ISU Computation Center from
1986 to 1995. He has also held several positions in the computer industry and has worked as an information technology
consultant in both private industry and government. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
