Dr. Edgar H. Sibley has the permanent position of University Professor and Eminent Scholar with appointments in both the School of Information Technology and Engineering (Department of Information and Software Systems Engineering) and The Institute for Public Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax VA.

He has been active in all areas of large scale information an general systems design for many major governmental agencies and business organizations. This has recently included work with the IRS, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy, as well as joint contract efforts with the Boeing Corporation, Batelle, and SAIC, and many small businesses in the DC area. Work has included definition of controls on the design and implementation of systems, including large scale database management, and several major economic issues, such as reengineering, with extensions into some large industrial enterprise and governmental efforts. One such effort was in the electronic integration of the Textile industry (under AMTEX for Argonne National Laboratories). In the past six years, he has been a consultant at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He has been the Chairman of the Board of Editors of Information and Management (the North Holland Journal) since its inception in 1977 and is an associate editor of several other journals. Over 100 of his articles have been published. His final degree (an ScD in Mechanical Engineering) was received in 1967 from MIT. Dr. Sibley was a member of a National Research Council (NAS) board of the National Academy of Science considering the strategic plans of the Social Security Agency for large scale transaction processing in a distributed environments for the year 2000 onwards. He has also acted as an expert witness for four law firms.