Gautam Mukunda,^1,* Kenneth A. Oye,^2,** Scott C. Mohr<sup>3,***

1</sup>aDepartment of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Ro
²bEngineering Systems Division, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
³cDepartment of Chemistry, Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA

^*Gautam Mukunda is a Ph.D. candidate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog's Department of Political Science. He is a Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellow and an NSF IGERT Fellow. He is a graduate of Harvard University, after which he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company focusing in the pharmaceutical sector. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Security Studies, Parameters, and Systems and Synthetic Biology. His research interests include the role of leaders in foreign policy, innovation, particularly in militaries, and the social and political implications of synthetic biology.
^**Kenneth Oye, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems at MIT. He directs the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET) and is a faculty investigator in NSF SynBERC. He has served on the faculties of the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of California, Princeton University, and Swarthmore College. He has written six books including Cooperation Under Anarchy, Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange, and Eagle in a New World. His current research interests involve using theory and methods from political economy to address issues in the field of science, technology, and environmental policy.
^***Scott C. Mohr, Ph.D., is a Professor of Chemistry at Boston University, where he specializes in biophysical chemistry and bioinformatics. He is a graduate of Williams College, summa cum laude, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a member of Sigma Xi and has been an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Danforth Fellow, and NSF Fellow. Among other journals, his work has been published in Science, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, and Genome Biology. He serves as Director of Graduate Studies for Boston University's Bioinformatics Program.