Paul Eckert
Reputation Professor on Jan 26th 2010
PAUL ECKERT, Ph.D.
Mr. Paul Eckert is an International and Commercial Strategist at The Boeing Company.
As International and Commercial Strategist for Boeing’s Space Exploration division, Dr. Paul Eckert develops strategies to strengthen global business relationships and explore new commercial markets. He has become increasingly active in writing and speaking about the importance of international industrial cooperation to encourage innovation. Since joining the Boeing Company in 2003, Dr. Paul Eckert has played a variety of roles, facilitating space exploration planning, infrastructure design, Earth observation, space science, government relations, and communications.
In 2001 and 2002, Dr. Paul Eckert served as a Technology Policy Analyst in the Office of Space Commercialization, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., helping to develop policies promoting growth of the commercial space industry, both domestically and internationally. From 1999 through 2000, he was a Legislative Affairs Specialist at NASA, with responsibility for liaison with the U.S. Congress involving space and aeronautics, information technology, systems engineering, and technology transfer to industry. In 1997 and 1998, Dr. Paul Eckert was science and technology advisor to U.S. Senator John Breaux, a prominent member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, having received a Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship through the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). From 1986 through 1997, Paul Eckert gained expertise in productivity enhancement, as Director of Quality Improvement for a division of Henry Ford Health System.
Dr. Paul Eckert holds a bachelor’s degree with high honors in history from Harvard University, and a doctoral degree in psychology from Michigan State University, supplemented by postdoctoral training in organizational development. Paul Eckert is fluent in French and active in promoting international public-private partnerships to stimulate economic growth.
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