Biographical Information

Kaye Husbands

Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing became the Science of Science Policy Advisor in the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) in June 2006.  For the year prior, Dr. Husbands Fealing was a Program Director in SBE’s Economics program.  She also serves as liaison to The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading (TECT) initiative, which is a collaborative effort between NSF and the European Science Foundation.  Dr. Husbands Fealing received her Ph.D. in Economics in 1990 at Harvard University, where her fields of study included Industrial Organization, International Trade Theory, Multinational Enterprises, and International Development.  In 1981, she received her B.A., with a double major in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.  She currently serves as the William Brough Professor of Economics at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she has taught courses on global competitive strategies, microeconomics, industrial organization, as well as senior seminars on a variety of topics including the Pacific Rim, globalization, income security, privatization, and regulation.  She has also been a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development from July 1992 through August 1996, where she conducted research on NAFTA’s effect on the Mexican and Canadian automotive industries and on strategic alliances between aircraft contractors and their subcontractors.  Dr. Husbands Fealing continues to conduct research on the automotive industry and on the effect of multinationals on global technological diversity.