Linda Cohen is Professor for the Department of Economics at UC Irvine. She received an A.B. from UC Berkeley in Mathematics and in 1979, a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in Social Sciences. Her fields of study are political economy, government regulation, government policy for science and technology, and positive political theory and law.

Dr. Cohen has held positions at the Brookings Institution, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Rand Corporation. She was the 1998 Olin Visiting Professor in Law and Economics, USC Law School and is a member of the Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Cohen is the coauthor of "The Technology Pork Barrel" and has published many articles on the economics and politics of science and innovation. She has advised numerous federal departments and agencies on science policies, including the Departments of Energy and Commerce, the Office of Technology Assessment and the Congressional Research Service and has served on several committees for the National Research Council. She served two terms as a CCST Council member (2000-2006).