Susan Butts
Susan Butts, Ph.D., is the Senior Director of External Technology at The Dow Chemical Company. In this capacity she is responsible for Dow’s sponsored research programs at over 150 universities, institutes, and national laboratories worldwide and also for Dow’s contract research activities with US and European government agencies. She also holds the position of Global Staffing Leader for R&D, with responsibility for recruiting and hiring programs. Susan Butts is a Dow representative to the Council for Chemical Research, the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Corporation Associates, and the External Technology Director’s Network of the Industrial Research Institute (IRI); a member of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA), the Association of University Technology Managers, the Society of Research Administrators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi; and a governing board member for the Council for Chemical Research and the Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America (ASTRA).