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Appendix F Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 205-208

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... Howard Kunreutber (co-chair) is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy at the Wha ton School, University of Pennsylvania, as well as codirector of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.
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From page 206...
... Fnmcis also chaired a number of NTSB public hearings. In addition to his mvestigative work and other NTSB duties, he has been m active member of the Air Transport Association of America Steering Committee on Flight Operations Quality Assurance Programs md the Flight Safety Foundation ICARUS Committee, a group of aviation experts from around the world who gather to share ideas on reducing huonan error in the cockpit.
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From page 207...
... Harry McDonald is Distinguished Professor, Chair of Excellence to Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he conducts scholarly research and provides advice and assistance to the universiry faculty and students. From 1996 to 2002, as center director, NASA Ames Research Center, he was responsible for defining and overseeing the NASA Ames Center of Excellence for information Technologies, including all research programs, approximately 1,500 civil servants, 3,000 contractor employees, and an annual budget approaching $1 billion.
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... She is a past president md fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and is currently m elected member of the Stanford University Senate. She received her degree m computer science from the Institut Polytechnique, Grenoble, France, and a master's degree in operations research and a doctorate m engineering-economic systems, both from Stanford Umversity.
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