Biographical Information on the Committee on Science for EPA’s Future - Science For Environmental Protection: The Road Ahead - page 200

tion Prevention and Toxics Advisory Committee, and the First National Precau-
tionary Principle Conference Advisory Committee. He is the recipient of several
honors and awards, including the University of Massachusetts President's
Award for Public Service, the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable Cham-
pion Award, and the North American Hazardous Waste Managers Policy Leader
Award. Dr. Tickner earned an ScD in cleaner production and pollution preven-
tion from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Anthony D. Williams is founder and chief executive of Anthony D. Williams
Consulting. He is an author, speaker, and consultant who helps organizations to
harness the power of collaborative innovation in business, government, and so-
ciety. He is a coauthor of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Every-
thing and the followup topic MacroWikinomics: Rebooting the Business and the
World . Mr. Williams is currently a visiting fellow at the Munk School of Global
Affairs of the University of Toronto and a senior fellow for innovation at the
Lisbon Council in Brussels. Among other appointments, he is an adviser to
GovLoop, the world's largest social network for government innovators, and a
founding fellow of the OpenForum Academy, a global research initiative fo-
cused on understanding the effects of open standards and open sources on busi-
ness and society. As a senior fellow at nGenera Insight, Mr. Anthony founded
and led the world's definitive investigation into the impact of Web 2.0 and wiki-
nomics on the future of governance and democracy. He has advised Fortune 500
firms and international institutions, including the World Bank. Mr. Williams
earned an MSc in research in political science from the London School of Eco-
nomics.
Yiliang Zhu is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
of the University of South Florida College of Public Health. He is also director
of the college's Center for Collaborative Research. His current research is fo-
cused on biostatistical methods for spatiotemporal data, exposure to environ-
mental contaminants and health consequences, evaluation of health-care systems
and outcomes, and quantitative methods in health risk assessment, including
physiologically based pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models, dose-
response modeling, benchmark-dose methods, and uncertainty quantification.
He also conducts research in disease surveillance and health-care access and use
in developing countries. Dr. Zhu has served as a member of several National
Research Council committees as is currently a member of the Committee on
Shipboard Hazard and Defense II (SHAD II). He received his PhD in statistics
from the University of Toronto.