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Geoffrey McGovern is a Senior Lecturer at the Carnegie Mellon Institute Strategy & Technology (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University. He has served as Director of Intellectual Property and is a senior political scientist at RAND, where he focuses on issues related to civil justice, statutory compliance, asbestos litigation, national defense, and homeland security. His past research at RAND includes a series of studies examining asbestos personal injury bankruptcy trusts and management of state judicial resourcing. McGovern has been a two-time Fulbright Scholar, conducting research on the Finnish legal system at the University of Tampere and studying technology and science collaboration in Australia. He will serve as the Fulbright-DeBats Distinguished Chair in Politics and Public Policy at Flinders University in Adelaide during the spring of 2026. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Binghamton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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