Washington, DC, USA; June 13, 2006 The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that Jeff Nesbit, a senior communications strategist with 25 years of experience, has been appointed director of the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, effective June 12, 2006. Boyden conducted the search from its Baltimore-Washington regional office.
Nesbit has worked in the national media, Congress, the Food and Drug Administration, the White House, and private industry, and has managed a successful strategic communications consulting business for more than a decade. He will oversee the agency's communication activities with the public, Congress, the news media, states and governors, and various scientific, engineering and education organizations.
Prior to forming his own communications consulting business in 1992, Nesbit was the director of communications to former Vice President Dan Quayle at the White House; associate commissioner for public affairs at the Food and Drug Administration for David Kessler, M.D.; a U.S. Senate press secretary, and a national journalist with media organizations such as Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
His clients and projects have included dozens of national non-profit, trade associations, media companies, Fortune 500 companies, major health foundations, public relations agencies, advocacy organizations, and a number of major pharmaceutical companies. He has worked with the Discovery Health Channel, the American Heart Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Red Cross, Porter-Novelli, CTIA-the Wireless Association, the Koop-Kessler Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health, Burson-Marsteller, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. In addition, Nesbit is the author of 17 novels for children and adults.
The NSF is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of $5.58 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 1,700 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives about 40,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes nearly 10,000 new funding awards. The NSF also awards over $400 million in professional and service contracts yearly.
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