Dr. Celia Merzbacher is Executive Director of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), a global consortium managed by SRI International that aims to enable and grow the quantum industry. Dr. Merzbacher has more than two decades of experience as a leader of large multidisciplinary partnerships and programs at the intersection of government and industry. She is a member of the U.S. delegation to the NATO Transatlantic Quantum Community. She serves on the board of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Foundry and on advisory boards for several quantum research institutes worldwide. She previously was Assistant Director of Technology R&D at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Merzbacher is a Fellow of the AAAS.