Lorel Wisniewski
Acting Director of Technology Innovation Program
Technology Innovation Program
Lorel Wisniewski currently serves as Acting Director for TIP. She has been Deputy Director of TIP since the program's inception in 2007, and was Deputy Director of the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) at NIST from 2005 through 2007. Dr. Wisniewski joined ATP as Supervisory Economist in the ATP Economic Assessment Office in December 2003.
Before joining NIST, Dr. Wisniewski spent over ten years as Principal with an economic consulting firm in Washington, D.C., and previously managed compensation for a large HMO. She spent three years as staff economist and manager of the statistical department for a trade association in the electric power industry, and spent nearly ten years conducting economic analysis in the telecommunications industry. Dr. Wisniewski has taught economics at American University and Trinity College. Her career began as a Federal Junior Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dr. Wisniewski earned a Ph.D. in economics from American University in 1999. She also has an M.A. in economics from George Washington University and a B.A. in economics from Franklin & Marshall College.
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