Leadership Perspective--Q & A with NSF director, Arden Bement '54

摘要

Arden Bement '54 stepped down as director of the National Science Foundation at the end of May 2010. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2004, he was the 12th director of the 60-year-old agency and only the second engineer to fill the post. Shortly before his NSF departure, Bement welcomed me into his spacious office atop the agency's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, where our conversation covered both the personal and the professional: he spoke on topics of national concern that he's addressed during his term at the NSF; he spoke about his own career and identified some of the strategies that have contributed to his success; and he described some of the global changes he sees on the horizon for us all.