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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Clark C. Abt |
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| Email | None |
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(96 years)
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| Info | Clark C. Abt is Chairman and past President of Abt Associates Inc.; Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; and a founding Director of the Roxbury Entrepreneur's Club.
Dr. Abt was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1929, came to the United States in 1937, and was naturalized in 1945. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1957. From 1957 to 1964 he held engineering and management positions at the Raytheon Company, including managing its advanced systems department. He founded Abt Associates in 1965. In 1975, he received the grand prize Thoreau Award for the landscape architecture of Abt Associates' facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Abt has a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT and has taught at Boston University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, State University of New York (Binghamton), the University of California Business Schools, and the University of Massachusetts. From 1991 to 1993, Dr. Abt directed the Center for the Study of Small States at Boston University.
Dr. Abt has written and/or edited numerous books, including Serious Games, The Social Audit for Management, The Evaluation of Social Programs (editor), Applied Research for Social Policy: The United States and The Federal Republic of Germany Compared (editor and coauthor), Perspectives on the Costs and Benefits of Applied Social Research (editor), Problems in American Social Policy Research (editor and coauthor), AIDS and the Courts (editor), and A Strategy for Terminating a Nuclear War. He is the founder of Abt Books Inc. Dr. Abt designed, edited, and published the data bases Drugs and Crime, International Drug Library, and The National Portrait Gallery Permanent Collection of Notable Americans.
Dr. Abt organized and directed four Russian-American Entrepreneurial Workshops in Defense Technology Conversion for Russian and US nuclear weapons scientists in the early 1990s. In 1997, he conducted research on renewable energy and environmentally sustainable economic development and presented papers in the United States, at the United Nations, and in China, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines. Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City, he has devoted much of his time to research and writing on homeland defense of port cities against catastrophic terrorism involving nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons smuggled into US ports in maritime shipping containers.
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