Kaye G. Husbands Fealing
Kaye Husbands Fealing is a professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She served as Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Chair of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. From 2024-2026, she served as the Assistant Director of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and, during that period, as co-chair of the Subcommittee on Social and Behavioral Sciences of the Committee on Science of the National Science & Technology Council (NSTC). Husbands Fealing specializes in science, technology and innovation policy. At Georgia Tech, she co-chaired the Arts@Tech Institute Strategic Planning committee, and she has served on the Institute for Data Engineering and Science Council, the Intellectual Property Advisory Board, and other committees.
Prior to her positions at Georgia Tech, Husbands Fealing taught at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and served as a study director at the National Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Sciences. Prior to the Humphrey School, she was the William Brough professor of economics at Williams College, where she began her teaching career in 1989. She developed and was the inaugural program director for NSF's Science of Science and Innovation Policy program and co-chaired the Science of Science Policy Interagency Task Group, chartered by the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Subcommittee of the NSTC. At NSF, she also served as an Economics Program director. Husbands Fealing was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development, where she conducted research on NAFTA’s impact on the Mexican and Canadian automotive industries and research on strategic alliances between aircraft contractors and their subcontractors.
Husbands Fealing was awarded the 2023 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and the 2017 Trailblazer Award from the National Medical Association Council on Concerns of Women Physicians. She is an elected fellow of the National Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Public Administration and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Husbands Fealing holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.