Michael L. Telson is an American engineer currently at the

Federation of American Scientists The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is an American nonprofit global policy think tank with the stated intent of using science and scientific analysis to attempt to make the world more secure. FAS was founded in 1946 by scientists who wo ...

and General Atomics Corporation and is an Elected Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

, since 1999 and also an

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

Fellow since 2004. He is an expert on technology and formulation policies and budgets. From 1975 to 1995, he was on the

U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

Budget Committee. From 1997 to 2001, he was the chief financial officer for the U. S. Department of Energy.

Education

He earned his Ph.D. (1973), E.E., M.S. and B.S. from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and an M.S. in management from MIT.

Publications

*The economics of alternative levels of reliability for electric power generation systems, ML Telson – The Bell Journal of Economics, 1975 *The economics of reliability for electric generation systems, ML Telson – 1973, MIT

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Telson, Michael Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society 21st-century American engineers MIT School of Engineering alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni