Jeanne Powell (3W2P)
Jeanne Powell, Economic Consultant, has been engaged in program evaluation for 14 years. As Senior Economist in the Economic Assessment Office, Advanced Technology Program, she managed contractor evaluation studies, developed methodologies for applying benefit-cost analysis to ATP-funded industry R&D projects, and advised on performance measurement issues. Her most recent work focused on benefit-cost analysis and included the NIST report Toward a Standard Benefit-Cost Methodology for Publicly Funded Science and Technology Programs (2006). She developed ATP’s Business Reporting System and published a number of reports of ATP progress, including Different Timelines for Different Technologies (2002), Development, Commercialization, and Diffusion of Enabling Technologies: Progress Report (2000), Business Planning and Progress of Small Firms Engaged in Technology Development through the Advanced Technology Program (1999), and Development, Commercialization, and Diffusion of Enabling Technologies: Progress Report for Projects Funded 1993-1995 (1997). Her previous experience includes serving small businesses as a private Certified Public Accountant (CPA), performing corporate audits for regional CPA firms, performing several stints as a federal government economist, and Professor of Economics, Business Statistics, and Accounting at Montgomery College. (3W2Q)