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In 1998, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recognized the growing importance of issues related to science and technology (S&T) in foreign policy and commissioned a report from the National Research Council (NRC) of the U.S. National Academies to examine how the Department of State could better meet its responsibilities in this arena.1 One of the recommendations of the report, completed a year later, was that “the Secretary should select a highly qualified STH [Science, Technology, and Health] Senior Advisor to the Secretary and to the selected undersecretary to provide expert advice, drawing on the resources of the American STH communities, as necessary, on current and emerging issues.”2 The first science and technology adviser to the U.S. secretary of state and its supporting office, the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser (STAS), were established in 2000.
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