Paul Dufour has been appointed to the board of external advisors of the new Battelle Centre for Science and Technology Policy. Dufour is a fellow of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the Univ of Ottawa and principal of PaulicyWorks, a science policy consulting firm in Gatineau QC. He recently retired from the public service after more than three decades in which he held a wide range of S&T policy positions with Industry Canada (and its precursors), Natural Resources Canada, the International Development Research Centre and the former Office of the National Science Advisor to the prime minister. Dufour holds degrees in the history of science and science policy from in Univ o