Dr. G. Wayne Clough Geotechnical Engineering B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1964 B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1965 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1969

G. Wayne Clough has been a member of the faculty at Duke University, Stanford University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Washington. At Virginia Tech, he served as Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and as Dean of the College of Engineering. In 1993, he was appointed Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Washington, and in 1994 he became Georgia Tech's tenth president. In 2008 he was appointed the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Clough's research interests lie in geotechnical engineering, including studies of earthquakes, numerical analysis, soil-structure interaction, and underground openings. He is also active in policy studies related to higher education, economic development and science and technology policy. He has published over 120 papers and reports and six book chapters.

He is the recipient of a number of national awards and honors for teaching and research, including a total of eight from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is one of a handful of civil engineers to have been twice awarded Civil Engineering's oldest recognition, the Norman Medal, and in 2004 received the OPAL award from ASCE for outstanding lifetime achievement. He received the George Westinghouse Award from the American Society of Engineering Education in 1986 for outstanding teaching and the National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies in 2002. In 1990, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Active in national and local professional and volunteer service work, Clough's current service includes: Vice Chair of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, Co-chair of the National Innovation Initiative of the Council on Competitiveness, Member of the President's Council of Advisor's on Science and Technology (appointed by President Bush), Executive Committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Trustee of the Georgia Research Alliance, Chair of the Atlanta Regional Council of Higher Education, and Chair of the Engineer of 2020 Initiative of the National Academy of Engineering. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Noro-Moseley Partners, a venture capital firm, and the Board of Directors of TSYS of Columbus, Georgia, an international card processing firm.

He was appointed to the National Science Board in 2004.

July 2008