Jenn Gustetic | Director of Metascience and R&D Policy

Jenn Gustetic is a senior government with almost 20 years of expertise accelerating breakthrough science and applied sciences from lab to market. She is Director of Metascience and R&D Policy on the Institute for Progress, a Washington, D.C. suppose tank targeted on scientific and technological progress, the place she leads work on maximizing the return on American’s public R&D funding. Over greater than a decade at NASA, she managed over $2 billion in early-stage expertise investments spanning prizes, partnerships, and small enterprise innovation applications—capital that helped seed corporations and capabilities now shaping the business area financial system. At the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, she designed world open innovation applications throughout sectors from well being to power.

A former member of the federal Senior Executive Service, Jenn obtained NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal (2025) and Exceptional Performance Award (2017), was named to the Fed100 (2024), and was a finalist for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (2016). She holds a grasp’s diploma in expertise coverage from MIT and a bachelor’s diploma in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida. She has accomplished a analysis fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School on the longer term of work and human-machine teaming and Stanford Graduate School of Business “VC Unlocked” Executive Education Program, and she speaks and publishes globally on science coverage and innovation research.