Christophe Combemale

Christophe is the assistant research professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, with a research appointment at the Block Center for Technology and Society at CMU’s Heinz College.  He is also the CEO and principal partner of Valdos Consulting LLC, a research and strategy firm delivering scalable technoeconomic solutions to public and private sector clients.

His academic research focuses on the implications of technology choices and process design for skill demand and on workforce supply chain levers to meet industry skill demand needs. He is interested in how regional and national labor supply may constrain economic productivity and innovation, and solutions that enhance outcomes for workers and firms.

His firm specializes in technology forecasting and implementation, workforce demand and supply analytics, and systems-level operations improvement from supply robustness to building in-house R&D capacity.

His also an expert contributor on labor and technology issues for an NSF-funded pilot program seeking to develop a National Network for Critical Technology Assessment. The program objective is to develop assessment capabilities for critical technologies for U.S. competitiveness and present insights to U.S. legislators.