William Madia

William (Bill) J. Madia (born 1947) is an American scientist and laboratory director. Madia holds a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry, a field in which most of his career was focused at Battelle. In his early twenties, Madia was drafted into the US Army where he trained nuclear reactor operators. He later worked for Battelle, a non-profit research company where he began as a researcher before being promoted to direct various laboratories across the United States and Western Europe. Madia retired in 2007 and joined Stanford University in early 2008. He retired from Stanford in 2019 and is now President of Madia & Associates, Inc. a management consulting firm.

Education Madia was born in 1947 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania and grew up a few miles away in Swissvale.