CARL B. FELDBAUM is President of the Biotechnology Industry
Organization academic institutions and state biotechnology
centers in the 50 states and 33 other nations. Mr. Feldbaum came
to Washington, DC, in 1973 as an Assistant Special Prosecutor for
the Watergate special prosecution force to work with Archibald
Cox to investigate and prosecute the Watergate scandal. Prior to
his appointment as President of BIO, Mr. Feldbaum was Chief of
Staff to Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. He was also
President and Founder of the Palomar Corporation, a national
security ‘think tank’ in Washington, DC. Before founding Palomar
Corporation, Mr. Feldbaum was Assistant to the Secretary of
Energy, and served as the Inspector General for Defense
Intelligence in the US Department of Defense. In 1979, Mr.
Feldbaum was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal
from Defense Secretary Harold Brown. He received the Christopher
Medal for his book ‘Looking the Tiger in the Eye: Confronting the
Nuclear Threat’, which was also designated by The New York Times
as a notable book of the year for 1988. Mr. Feldbaum received a
Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Princeton University and his
Law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
