Kei Koizumi

United States

Principal Deputy Director for Science, Society, and Policy

Description

Kei Koizumi (he/his) is a longtime science-policy leader, science policy researcher, and social scientist in Washington, DC. Since January 2021, he has served at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), currently as Principal Deputy Director for Policy and previously as Chief of Staff and Acting Director. He is also Acting Executive Director of the National Science and Technology Council and Interim Director of OSTP’s Science and Society team. Immediately before the Biden-Harris Administration, he served on the Biden-Harris Transition Team as the lead for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a member of the OSTP transition. Previously, he served as Senior Advisor for Science Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) between 2017 and 2019. He was Assistant Director for Federal R&D, and Senior Advisor for the National Science and Technology Council, at OSTP from 2009 to 2016 in the Obama Administration. Mr. Koizumi received his MA in International Science and Technology Policy at the George Washington University (where he has taught science policy) and his BA from Boston University in Political Science and Economics. He is a Fellow of the AAAS.