Eric Haseltine is chairman of the Board of the US Technology Leadership Council (USTLC). He is a technologist who has worked in senior-executive positions in both industry and the United States intelligence community. Haseltine also is CEO of the startup Discovery Democracy LLC that manufactures industrial safety sensors.

Academics

Haseltine received a Bachelor of Arts degree in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, and a PhD in physiological psychology from

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

. He also has a certificate in Executive Management from UCLA's Anderson School of Management. He accomplished post-doctoral work in brain research at

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is a graduate medical school of Vanderbilt University located in Nashville, Tennessee. Located in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the southeastern side of the Vanderbilt University campus, the S ...

Career

Haseltine spent 13 years at Hughes Aircraft, where he rose to the position of Director of Engineering. He then left for Walt Disney Imagineering in 1992, where he joined the research and development group, working on large-scale

virtual-reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), ed ...

projects. In 1998, he was promoted to senior vice president responsible for all technology projects.Goodman, Haseltine Promoted to Top Posts at Walt Disney
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National Security Agency The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collecti ...

as Director of Research. From 2005 to 2007, Haseltine was associate director for Science and Technology, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)—that organization's first—a position he described in a 2006 ''U.S. News & World Report'' interview by stating: "You can think of me as the CTO hief technology officerof the intelligence community". Haseltine currently specializes in cyber security, personal protection and privacy. He frequently collaborates with his wife
Chris Gilbert MD PHD
writing, speaking and performing basic research in Mind-Body medicine and Prediction Science.

Patents/Publications

"Eric has 15 patents in optics, special effects and electronic media, and more than 100 publications in science and technical journals, the web, and Discover Magazine." * '
The Listening Cure: Healing Secrets of an Unconventional Doctor
' Selectbooks, NY. 2017 * ''Long Fuse, Big Bang: Achieving Long-Term Success Through Daily Victories''. Hyperion, NY, 2010. *
Brain Safari: 5 Minute Experiments to Explore the Space Between Your Ears
' Greenleaf, TX, 2018. *
The Spy in Moscow Station
A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat,'' Thomas Dunne Books, NY, 2019. *
Riding the Monster: Five Ways to Innovate Inside Bureaucracies
' Discovery Democracy Press, California, 2021.

Awards

* National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal * Manager of the Year Award, from the Society for Psychologists in Management * Hughes Patent Award

Notes

External links

2006 ''U.S. News & World Report'' interview of Haseltine when he was working for ODNI

''The New Yorker'' article
from the January 21, 2008 issue which mentions Haseltine while discussing Disney's connection to the NSA and ODNI on page 7
"Creative Intelligence"
��video of Eric Haseltine speaking with Jane Meyer about

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matters on May 8, 2008, at the 2008 "Stories from the Near Future" conference put on by ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' magazine (video accessed 06/04/08) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haseltine, Eric 1951 births Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni 20th-century American inventors 21st-century American inventors American aerospace engineers Analysts of the National Security Agency