Paul Filmer Email & Phone Number

Currently I coordinate the National Science Foundation's relations with the governments and research communities of countries in the Americas. I am the lead Desk Officer for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. I am the alternate for Brazil, Canada, Egypt, and Israel.I have developed programs of research for the Federal Government in fundamental areas of science: climate change and evolution. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow. And in every case, we ensure that research is fully integrated with education so that today's revolutionary work will also be training tomorrow's top scientists and engineers.

Dublin, Ireland

I served as the Embassy Science Fellow for the American Embassy in Ireland, and worked at EirGrid in the Ballsbridge area of Dublin. EirGrid is the state-owned company that develops and operates the high voltage electricity grid in Ireland. EirGrid manages the flow of power on the grid and plans for the future. EirGrid moves energy from generation stations and widely scattered wind farms to heavy industry, high-tech manufacturing and computing centers, and to the general public. EirGrid is also unique in that it operates the critical electric infrastructure not only for the Republic of Ireland, but also for Northern Ireland, part of the UK, a completely separate country. This setup is unique in the world.The U.S. Government is very interested in EirGrid's experience with renewable power sources, because while the US power grid has about 2-4% of total power generated by these asynchronous, highly variable sources, Ireland consistently generates between 20 to 50% of its daily power from wind and solar sources. The management of loads across a network with this high a level of asynchronous sources is an extremely difficult problem, and will be of great interest to US grids as the use of renewables continues to rise.

The IAI Executive Council is composed of nine members, each of whom is elected by the Signatory Parties of the IAI Treaty for a two-year term, and has two mandates: to develop policy recommendations for submission to and approval by the Conference of the Parties, and to ensure that policies adopted by the Conference of the Parties are implemented by the IAI Directorate.

Managed U.S. Government contributions to the Organization, and its projects.

Managed Programs for NASA Headquarters (CIESIN DAAC)

Hksee 2000, Public Policy

Phd, Geophysics

Activities and Societies: Spanish Theater, Wu Tang, Sailing

B.Sc., Geophysics

Activities and Societies: Page House, ASCIT

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