Presentations: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 Biographies of all speakers in alphabetical order | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z | | | | Richard ADAMS, Senior Vice President, International Partnerships, Battelle Inc | As Senior Vice President, International Partnerships, Dr. Adams has responsibility for designing and implementing Battelle's international business strategy. Dr. Adams held the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Battelle from 1998-2003. In this position he was responsible for building Battelle's intellectual property portfolio thereby creating new government and commercial business opportunities. Areas of investment focus included bio-nano technology, smart sensor systems, information synthesis, and micro-chemical systems. Dr. Adams joined Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) in 1977 as a Research Scientist. Between 1977 and 1997 he has held several leadership positions at PNNL including Energy Systems Department Manager, Technology Planning and Analysis Center Manager, Associate Director of Emerging Technologies and Director of Human Resources. Dr Adams has a B.S., Economics from Millersville University, M.S. Economics from Washington State University and a Ph.D., Science and Technology Policy from George Mason University.
| | Ambassador Munir AKRAM, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, Chairman of the Group of 77 | Ambassador Akram has been the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York since May 21, 2002. He is the most senior diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pakistan, specializing in multilateral diplomacy with wide experience at United Nations chapters in New York and Geneva. As Pakistan’s representative to the United Nations in New York and Geneva, applied his vast experience and diplomatic skills to promote and protect Pakistan’s vital national interests in multiple fields ranging from peace and security, disarmament, human rights, development and trade. In the ongoing process of reform at the United Nations, including Security Council reform, Munir Akram, has ably defended and protected, Pakistan’s vital interests and continues to play a leading role on other important issues on the UN’s regular and reform agenda. Munir Akram was educated in Pakistan, and holds a Masters degree in Political Science and a Bachelors degree in Law from Karachi University, Pakistan.
| | Yaw ANSU, Sector Director, Human Development Department, Africa Region, World Bank | Yaw Ansu, a Ghanaian national, is the Sector Director for Human Development of the Africa Region. In this position, he provides a strategic vision for the Region’s work in the areas of education, health, nutrition and population, and social protection; drives an analytical work program and operations to effectively pursue the sector’s goals, including the applicable Millennium Development Goals; and leads and motivates the Sector Leadership Group. Prior to taking this position, he was the Director of Economic Policy in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network for two years. Earlier, Mr. Ansu was Country Director for Zambia and Zimbabwe, and before that of Nigeria. He has also been an Economic Advisor in the Office of the Senior Vice-President Development Economics and Chief Economist of the Bank. Mr. Ansu joined the Bank in 1984 as an Economist in the Development Research Department, Development Strategy Division. His work in the Bank has focused on macroeconomic management and reforms as well as economic growth, diversification and competitiveness.
| | George ATKINSON, Science and Technology Advisor, US State Department | Dr. George H. Atkinson, named by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to be Science and Technology (S&T) Adviser to the Secretary (STAS) in September 2003, has continued to serve as STAS under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The STAS is a principal interlocutor for science and technology with the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Atkinson continues efforts to strengthen the Department scientific capacity by introducing new anticipatory, proactive programs, providing advice on key policy issues involving S&T, and developing key domestic and international S&T relationships. Dr. Atkinson received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Indiana University in Bloomington. He was Professor of Chemistry at Syracuse University until 1983, when he joined the University of Arizona as Professor of Chemistry and Optical Sciences and Head of the Chemistry Department. Dr. Atkinson has more than 170 publications in refereed scientific journals and books, and has authored 66 U.S. and foreign patents. His numerous honorary awards include the Senior Alexander von Humboldt Award (Germany), the Senior Fulbright Award (Germany), the Lady Davis Professorship (Israel), the SERC Award (Great Britain), the Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Award from the University of California, Irvine. He has been a professor in Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, and France.
 
| | Reinie BEISENBACH, GRA | Reinie Biesenbach is Manager of the Global Research Alliance (GRA) Nerve Centre at South Africa’s CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), the largest research and development organization in Africa. Dr. Reinie Biesenbach studied at the University of Stellenbosch where he obtained his master's degree (cum laude) and doctorate in Industrial Engineering. He started his career as a research engineer at the Research Institute for Oenology and Viticulture in Stellenbosch and then joined a young firm of consulting engineers, which was subsequently expanded into a multi-disciplinary national firm with nine offices throughout South Africa. He was managing director of this firm from 1985 to 1988, during which time he also completed the Strategic Management Programme at the University of Stellenbosch Business School and was awarded the Director's Award for the best student on this particular programme. He joined the CSIR in January 1989 and was head of the CSIR office in Paris until April 1990, when he moved to Bonn / Germany. In 1991 he became the operational head of the CSIR's three international offices in Washington, London and Bonn. In October 1993 he was transferred back to South Africa to take charge of the CSIR’s international business. Dr. Biesenbach initiated the Global Research Alliance and presently manages the GRA Nerve Centre from South Africa in addition to his normal duties.
| | Peter BRIMBLE, President, Asia Policy Research Company | Peter Brimble has worked extensively in East Asia on industrial efficiency, investment promotion, economics and public policy issues. He has carried out research on industrial and technological development and government policy issues in Thailand and the region - working for various agencies, including the Asian Development Bank, Harvard Institute for International Development, the United Nations, the Thai Board of Investment and many other Thai government agencies/institutions. He recently completed several research projects on university-industry linkages in Thailand, with a paper forthcoming in World Development and in the conference papers of the Triple Helix meeting in May 2007. Peter is an Economics graduate of the London School of Economics, Georgetown University, the University of Sussex, and Johns Hopkins University. His Ph.D. thesis examined the productivity performance of Thai manufacturing firms. Formerly CEO and President of Policy Research of The Brooker Group Public Company Limited, he co-founded Asia Policy Research along with Dr. David Oldfield in August 2003. Asia Policy Research Company Limited provides a wide range of policy research services to the public sectors in Thailand and East Asia.
| | Roberto CALVO, Director, Costa Rica Provee | Roberto Calvo is a Latin American executive with relevant experience on development of competitiveness programs related to Foreign Direct Investment and Supply Chain linkages. Mr. Calvo holds a Masters Degree on Information Technology, a ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 International Auditor Certification Programme, and in process of the APICS certification as a Supply Chain specialist in the USA. As Director of Costa Rica Provee he has been heading efforts to promote the creation of a sustainable and competitive cluster of local business units, specially small and medium size, in order to integrate them as suppliers of multinational companies. He has performed several investigations on these issues in Japan, China and several EU countries.
| | Fernando CHAPARRO , U. del Rosario, ex Director of Colciencias, Colombia | Fernando Chaparro is the Director of the Knowledge Management and Innovation Center of the University del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. Born in Colombia, he holds an M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial sociology from the University of Princeton (N.J., USA), having done his undergraduate studies (Licence) in rural sociology in the University of Louvain in Belgium. Previous positions include Executive Director of the Colombian Digital Corporation from 2002 to 2004; Executive Secretary of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), based in the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy (1998-2002) and as Director General of COLCIENCIAS from 1994 to 1998. COLCIENCIAS is the agency of the Colombian Government responsible for the development and implementation of the Science and Technology Policy in this country, as well as a funding organization that supports research and technological development programs. He is also the author of several books and articles on science, technology and innovation policy and has received several awards for his contribution to the development of science and for his role in hemispheric cooperation in this field.
| | Kobsak CHUTIKUL , Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General of UNCTAD | BA (Hons) Australian National University, Canberra; MIPP, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Southeastern University, USA. 1972, Third Secretary, Department of Political Affairs; 1978, Attaché, Office of the Prime Minister; 1980, First Secretary, Royal Thai Embassy, Washington DC; 1982, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Thailand to the United Nations, New York; 1985, Director, International Economics Division, Department of Economic Affairs; 1987, Deputy Director General, Department of Political Affairs; 1989, Ambassador Attached to the Ministry; 1990, Ambassador to the Czech and Slovak Republics; 1994, Director General, Department of ASEAN Affairs; 1994, Director General, Department of Economic Affairs; 1998, Director General, Department of Information, Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 2000, elected to Parliament of Thailand as deputy leader of the Chart Thai Party; Vice-Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Thailand; 2005, Consultant to the World Trade Organization; since September 2005, Senior Adviser to the Secretary-General of UNCTAD, current position.
| | Sungchul CHUNG , President, Korea Science and Technology Policy Institute | Sungchul Chung is currently the President of the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) and has a PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii and a BA in Economics from Yonsei University, Seoul. Previous positions include Senior Research Fellow at STEPI; Director, Center for International S&T Cooperation, STEPI; Head, Economic Analysis Department, Korea Institute of Science and Technology; and Vice Chair, Committee for S&T Policy, OECD. In addition, Dr Chung is currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on S&T, Korean Government and a member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning, Korean Government.
| | Gordon CONWAY , Chief Scientific Adviser, DFID | Professor Sir Gordon Conway took up his appointment as DFID’s Chief Scientific Adviser in January 2005. He was educated at the Universities of Wales (Bangor), Cambridge, Trinidad and California (Davis). His discipline is agricultural ecology. In the early 1960's, working in Sabah, North Borneo, he became one of the pioneers of sustainable agriculture. From 1970 to 1986, he was Professor of Environmental Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. During this period he lived and worked in many countries in Asia and the Middle East. He then directed the sustainable agriculture program of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London before becoming Representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992 and, subsequently, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chair of the Institute for Development Studies from 1992-1998. Prior to joining DFID he was President of The Rockefeller Foundation (1998-2004). He has honorary degrees from the Universities of Sussex, Brighton, Wales and the West Indies, is honorary fellow of the Institute of Biology, a fellow of Imperial College, of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the Royal Society. He has authored Unwelcome Harvest: agriculture and pollution (Earthscan, Island Press) and The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for all in the 21st century (Penguin and University Press, Cornell).
| | Joaquin CORDUA , Director of Education and Human Development, Fundacion Chile | Mr. Cordua was a Professor and Director of the School of Engineering, University of Chile, the first Director of Technological Institute of Chile, and has participated in the creation of Fundación Chile and later was a member of the Board. He is currently the Manager of the Human Capital Area (Programs in Education and Workplace Competencies). Mr Cordua has been a counsellor of the Fullbright Commission, President of the Development Found of CORFO; President of the Chilean Society for Technology Development; International Coordinator of Cyted Programmes; Vice-president of the National Council for Higher Education and Director of Engineer Institute of Chile. He has also consulted for national and international organizations including UNIDO, UNDP, OEA, National Academy of Sciences and ODEPLAN. He is also a Director for companies such as Gener S.A., Norgener S.A., Micrológíca S.A., Centec S.A., SIF S.A.
| | Thomas DIXON , Tanzania Country Director, Technoserve | TechnoServe's Country Director in Tanzania since March of 2000, Mr. Dixon brings 25 years of business management and business development experience in Latin America, Europe and North America to his work. As CEO of Productores de Monteverde in Costa Rica, he achieved growth in profits, attracted an expanded base of investors, and landed business from global corporations, while generating real rural development and establishing access to mortgage loans for blue-collar workers previously denied credit. While a Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company, Mr. Dixon led a business turnaround at one Dutch factory, increasing output by 35% while reducing defects by 60% in just four months. As an independent business consultant in the U.S. and Costa Rica, Mr. Dixon has helped Fortune 500 firms and international institutions such as the World Bank to resolve business problems ranging from supply-chain management and marketing to strategic planning and organizational development. A graduate of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, with a BA in Economics, Mr. Dixon earned his MBA from The Harvard Business School.
| | Frans DOORMAN , Rural Development Sociologist, AgDev Consult | Frans Doorman is a rural development sociologist with over 25 years of professional experience in development co-operation. His key areas of expertise are agricultural development, agricultural knowledge management, institutional development, project management, strategy formulation for economic development and poverty alleviation, and monitoring and evaluation. After long term assignments in Latin America he did short term consultancies for FAO Investment Centre, Dutch Development Co-operation, EC, World Bank, and German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). For the past ten years this work was done through the international office of the privatised Dutch Agricultural Extension Service. In October 2005 Doorman started his own company, AgDev Consult, focusing on consultancy for agricultural, rural and institutional development.
| | Paul DUFOUR , Senior Advisor, International Affairs, Office of the National Science Advisor, Canada | Paul Dufour is the Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the Office of the National Science Advisor in the Government. He is on secondment from the International Development Research Centre where he is the Special Programme Assistant of the project on Research on Knowledge Systems. He was Ministerial Assistant to Canada’s Secretary of State for Science, Research and Development, where he was responsible for providing advice on matters affecting Canada’s S&T policy as well as serving as an interface with the scientific and technological community. Prior to this position, he was Senior Analyst with the Science and Technology Strategy Directorate at Industry Canada where he was responsible for advising the Government on domestic and international S&T matters, especially with regards to implementation of Canada’s S&T strategy. He was also International S&T Relations Advisor with the Secretariat to the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology.
Mr. Dufour is a Senior Fellow of the International Science Policy Foundation and Research Associate with the Programme of Research on International Management and the Economy, University of Ottawa. Born in Montreal, Mr. Dufour was educated at the Université de Montreal and Concordia University in the history of science and science policy, and has had practical S&T policy experience for over two decades. He lectures regularly on science policy, has authored numerous articles on international S&T relations and Canadian innovation policy. He is series co-editor of the Cartermill Guides to World Science (Japan, Germany, Southern Europe and the United Kingdom are the most recent books in this series) and North American editor for the revue Outlook on Science Policy.
| | Walter ERDELEN , Assistant Director General for Science, UNESCO | Born in Ansbach, Germany in 1951, Walter R. Erdelen obtained a B.Sc. in Zoology, Botany, Genetics, Chemistry in 1973, in 1977 a M.Sc. in Zoology, Botany, Genetics, Chemistry and in 1983 a Ph.D. in Ecology and Zoology from the University of Munich, Germany, followed by habilitation in Biogeography in 1993 from the University of the Saarland, Germany. Between 1981 and 1988, Walter Erdelen was a Lecturer and Researcher at the Dept. of Zoology, University of Munich, Germany and a Research Associate at the Zoological Museum in Munich, Germany, when he became a Senior Lecturer and Researcher and then Associate Professor at the Institute of Biogeography at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Ecology and Biogeography at the Department of Zoology, Institute for Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology and Director of the Ecological Field Station, University of Würzburg, Germany. In 1997 he left Germany for invaluable experience in Asia to become a visiting Professor at the Dept. of Biology, Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, a post he occupied until his nomination as Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO, in 2001. Since 1975, Walter Erdelen has been teaching at universities and public schools in Germany and abroad in the fields of environmental sciences, conservation biology, ecology, systematics and evolutionary biology. His teaching has covered basic and applied sciences at pre- and postgraduate levels, benefiting from accumulated research experience in these fields obtained over 25 years, particularly in the tropics. His experience covers training needs assessment at foreign universities, planning and implementation of university education programs, planning, organization and the realization of national and international research programs and conferences. Author of over 60 scientific papers and reviews published in international journals, Walter Erdelen is also the editor of three books, among others, on tropical ecosystems, landscape management in Sri Lanka, and sustainable use of reptiles in Indonesia.
| | Michael FAIRBANKS , Chairman, On The Frontier Group | Michael Fairbanks is the Executive Chairman and founder of The OTF Group, a software and strategy consulting firm based in Boston. It is the first Venture-backed US firm to focus on developing nations. Mr. Fairbanks was a US Peace Corps teacher in Kenya, a Wall Street Banker and has, over a twenty year career, advised scores of Presidents, cabinet members and CEOs in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia on business strategy and export competitiveness. His current projects include working for the President of Rwanda to improve the prosperity of all Rwandan citizens by increasing the competitiveness of that nation's tourism, coffee and agro-industry sectors; and advising the Minister of Finance of Afghanistan on private sector reforms. Michael co-authored Harvard Business School's landmark book on business strategy in emerging markets, entitled Plowing the Sea, Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Advantage in Developing Nations, with a forward by Michael Porter. He was a visiting fellow at the Hoover institute at Stanford, a lecturer at Harvard, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. He has degrees in Philosophy and Biochemistry from the University of Scranton, a Jesuit University in Pennsylvania, and African Politics from Columbia University in New York City. He served on the Commission on Globalization with, among others, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, and Joe Stiglitz; advised the Private Sector Commission at the United Nations; and FORTUNE Magazine named him one of the 150 Smartest People in the World.
| | Ciro de FALCO , Executive Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank | Mr. Ciro De Falco, a U.S. citizen, was appointed Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank as of December 1st, 2005. Mr. De Falco had joined the Inter-American Development Bank in 1988 as Manager of the Plans and Programs Department. In that capacity, he was responsible for the preparation of country studies, strategic planning and the preparation of all policy-based loans. He played an important part in the implementation of the new role for the Bank mandated by the Agreement on the Seventh Replenishment of Bank Resources. He was also instrumental in the negotiations of the Bank’s Eighth Replenishment. Prior to joining the Bank, he held various positions in the United States Department of the Treasury. From 1984 to 1988 he was a senior career official working on the formulation of economic and financial policy toward Latin America, Asia and Africa. Mr. De Falco holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the City College of New York, and completed PhD studies in Economics (all but dissertation) at the City University of New York.
| | Guillermo FERNÁNDEZ DE LA GARZA , Executive Director, FUMEC(US/Mexico Foundation for Science), Former Deputy Director General of CONACYT | Guillermo Fernández de la Garza serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the United States - Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), an endowed non profit organization sponsored by the U.S. and the Mexican Governments. He reports to a Board of distinguished Business, Academia and Government leaders of the two countries. In FUMEC he has worked to develop binational regional innovation clusters North American cooperation programs in high tech business acceleration networks and industry university collaboration in areas like automotive electronics, as well as facilitating innovation in medium and small businesses. Mr. Fernandez de la Garza has bachelor's degrees in Engineering and in Physics of Mexico's National Autonomous University, a Master Degree in Engineering Economics from Stanford University and advanced studies in Nuclear Engineering and Business Administration of IPN and IPADE. Fernández de la Garza has worked in the development of the Mexican network of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, linking industry, universities and government in the definition of strategies, the development of technical and educational infrastructure, in the organization of business – university consortia to develop new MEMS based products and in the interaction with similar networks in other countries. Before, he was advisor to UNIDO and to the governments of Brazil and Argentina in Microelectronics development strategies. He was founder and first Chairman of the Mexican Associations of Industrial Research (ADIAT) and of High Tech Business Incubators and Technology Parks (AMIEPAT).
| | Jeffrey FINE , Consultant | An economist by profession, Mr. Jeffrey C Fine has been extensively engaged for more than three decades in capacity building, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, including establishment of the African Economic Research Consortium. As a consultant, he has worked on a broad range of issues, including the delivery of public goods (public health and education), private sector development (including e-business and public private partnerships), and macroeconomic management. Recently Mr. Fine completed a series of inquiries on behalf of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, which looked at “networks”, viz. collaborative cross border and inter-institutional initiatives, against a backdrop of trends reshaping research and post-graduate education globally. Drawing on these findings, his paper and presentation set out intervention for designing and financing STI projects in economies heavily dependent on support from the international donor community.
| | Beatrice GAKUBA , CEO, Rwanda Flora | Beatrice Gakuba is the leader of one of Rwanda’s most thriving businesses and has been hailed by international leaders as an example of the potential success of entrepreneurship in economically revitalizing economies in African countries. After a 20 year career in poverty alleviation with various United Nations institutions (WFP, UNICEF, IFAD, UNIDO), Ms. Gakuba returned to her native Rwanda in early 2004 when she purchased Rwanda Flora as it was being liquidated. She transformed the small farm into a socially responsible, eight hectare operation that currently sells five tons of flowers at auction in Europe each week and employs almost 200 rural women. Rwanda Flora is poised to expand to 15 hectares by 2007. Ms. Gakuba is a partner in Maersk Africa International in a joint venture in Rwanda to develop the transport sector in the landlocked country using it as a mini hub for Burundi and Eastern Congo. Ms. Gakuba is also a senior consultant and partner in a consulting firm based in Johannesburg working on private sector development in Africa. She is multilingual and holds a MSc. in Human Nutrition and Food from Howard University, Washington DC.
| | Charles GORE , Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD | Charles Gore is currently Senior Economic Affairs Officer and Chief of Research and Policy Analysis in the Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes in UNCTAD. He has been the principal author of UNCTAD's Least Developed Countries Report since 1999 and is currently leading the team writing the 2007 Report which is on New Policy Mechanisms to Promote Technological Learning and Innovation in LDCs. Dr. Gore is a member of the UN Experts Group of the Millennium Project and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies in Geneva. Dr. Gore holds a doctorate from Pennsylvania State University, USA, and an M.A. from Cambridge University, UK.
| | Phillip GRIFFITHS , Chair, Science Initiative Group; Professor of Mathematics and Director Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study | Phillip A. Griffiths is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was the Institute’s Director from 1991-2003; Provost and James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University from 1983-1991; and Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University from 1972-1983. He has also taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Griffiths teaches mathematics graduate courses at Princeton University and supervises Princeton graduate students. As Chairman of the Science Initiative Group, Dr. Griffiths provides scientific guidance, oversight and coordination for the Millennium Science Initiative (MSI), a program whose objective is to build capacity in modern science and engineering in developing countries as a vehicle for economic and social progress. Dr. Griffiths serves as a special advisor to the Mellon Foundation, and he is a Distinguished Presidential Fellow for International Affairs at The National Academies. Dr. Griffiths received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Foreign Associate of TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World) and of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
| | Jose Luis GUASCH , Senior Advisor, Private Sector and Infrastructure Department, Latin America Region, The World Bank | A Spanish national, Mr. Jose Luis Guasch is currently Senior Regional Advisor in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank in Washington, DC responsible for the areas of competitiveness, regulation, infrastructure, innovation and technological development, and is also a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego since 1980. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, California. He has written extensively in leading economic Journals. Among his most recent books include: (i) Managing the Regulatory Process: Design, Concepts, Issues and the Latin America and Caribbean Story; (ii) The Challenge of Designing and Implementing Effective Regulation: A Normative Approach and an Empirical Evaluation; (iii) Labor Markets: The Unfinished Reform in Latin America and Caribbean; (iv) Closing the Gap in Education and Technology in Latin America ; and (v) Granting and Renegotiating Concessions: Doing it Right.
| | Andy HALL , LINK Coordinator, UNU-MERIT | Andy Hall is a researcher at United Nations University Maastricht Economic s and Social Research and Training Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) where he coordinates the Learning Innovation and Knowledge (LINK) initiative from his base in the LINK South Asia Rural Innovation Studies Hub in Hyderabad, India. His area of specialisation is the study agricultural and rural innovation in developing countries and is known for his work on the application of the innovation systems concept. Andy was previously based at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in India from 1997 2004, on secondment from the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich, UK where he was a Reader in Innovation Systems Studies. Andy received his Ph.D. from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, UK in 1994. He has extensive research experience in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and has published extensively in his area of specialization. On-going work includes piloting a new approach to benchmarking rural innovation capacity in South Asia and East Africa; and action research on how to facilitate institutional change that enables rural innovation in India and Nigeria.
| | Mongi HAMDI , Chief, Science and Technology, PCBB, DITE, UNCTAD | Dr. Mongi Hamdi, a native of Tunisia, is Chief of Science and Technology at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Secretary to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Prior to joining UNCTAD, Mr. Hamdi worked as an Economic Affairs Officer in the Department of International Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat in New York, where ha was one of the core authors of the World Economic and Social Survey. Mongi Hamdi holds a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. He also holds a Certificate in Macroeconomic Policy and Management from Harvard University. His areas of interest are science, technology and innovation policies, technology transfer and information and communication technologies. He has written widely on science, technology, environment and energy.
| | Derek HANEKOM , Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa | Derek Hanekom is currently the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology in the South African Government. After completing senior school and his compulsory military conscription, he travelled abroad for some years, working on farms, in factories and on construction sites. He returned to South Africa in his early twenties and farmed for six years. It was during this period (1978 – 1983) that he became politically active. He and his wife, Patricia, were arrested for doing underground work for the African National Congress (ANC). After serving a three-year term of imprisonment, the couple spent three years in exile in Zimbabwe. The Hanekoms returned to South Africa after the un-banning of political organizations. During the period of negotiations prior to the first democratic elections in 1994, Derek Hanekom worked full-time for the ANC, being responsible for policy development in the areas of land and agriculture. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs from 1994 to 1999. Much of the South African land reform legislation were initiated, drafted and enacted during his term that laid the foundation for land reform in the post-apartheid era. From 1999 to 2004 he served as a Member of Parliament in the second democratically elected government and has been a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC for the past ten years. In 2004 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Science and Technology. He also serves on the Geneva based Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environmental Development (SEED) Initiative.
| | Farkhonda HASSAN , Chair, Commission on Human Development and Local Administration of the Shoura Assembly (Egyptian Parliament) | Dr. Farkhonda Hassan is a professor of Geology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and is chair of the Commission on Human Development and Local Administration of the Shoura Assembly (Second House of the Egyptian Parliament). She has a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Geology from Cairo University, an M.Sc. in Solid State Science from the American University in Cairo, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Pittsburgh (USA). Dr. Hassan is also cochair of the Gender Advisory Board of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Also Secretary-General (2001) and Member of the National Council for Women in Egypt (2000 – present). As scientist, politician and development specialist, she has dedicated her multi-faceted career to serve women's cause in policies, public services, sciences, information and technology, social work at grass roots level, education and culture, and other disciplines. Her affiliations with national and international organizations, non-governmental organizations, research and knowledge institutions have been directed towards women's empowerment. Frequent short-term consultant/expert to several international and regional programs organized by various UN Organizations e.g. UNIFEM, UNDP, INSTRAW and UNESCO.
| | Phillip HAY , Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank | Phillip Hay is the Communications Adviser at the Human Development Network of the World Bank Group. Mr. Hay joined the World Bank in November 1996 after a long career as a Special Correspondent with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, and later th e United States. Specializing in international politics, he reported widely from overseas on topics such as: Operation Desert Storm; The Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong post-Tieneman Square; the return of Peronism to Argentina; the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan; 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland; and the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe. Mr. Hay's essays and articles have been published extensively in newspapers and journals, including the Christian Science Monitor, the London Evening Standard, the British Listener, Outlook, the New Statesmen, Social Development Review, the New Zealand Journal of International Relations, and the International Political Science Association.
| | Gerard HENDRIKSEN , Consultant, Rural Development | Gerard was born in the Netherlands and has worked for over 25 years as agricultural engineer and economist for FAO, DGIS and DFID in Africa and Asia in rural development programmes. He managed a DFID funded, competitive research fund for agricultural engineering in Bangladesh and subsequently advised in the design of an independent research foundation. He is currently living in Zambia from where he works as a free lance consultant in the region. He has traveled to Rwanda a number of times to support CITT the KIST University, in setting up and managing a technology innovation programme to support agricultural and rural development such as small scale irrigation, tillage, transport, grain processing, alternative energy and bio fuels. He is particularly interested in systems to involve private sector and in particular SMEs in the process of technology development and transfer.
| | Manuel HINDS , Consultant and Former Minister of Finance, El Salvador | After graduating with a Master’s degree in Economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1973, Mr. Hinds worked for a few years in the Salvadoran financial system. Then, from 1982 to 1992, he was a staff member of the World Bank, working as a macroeconomist and as a financial economist in most of Latin America, all of East Europe and several Asian and African countries. He left the Bank in 1992 to return to his country, El Salvador, and was the Minister of Finance of El Salvador from January 1995 to June 1999. After his tenure in the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Hinds returned to private practice as a consultant, working for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and several governments. In 2000, he served as the lead advisor in the process of official dollarization of El Salvador. In 2004-2005, he visited the Council on Foreign Relations in New York as the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow. He has written two books (The Triumph of the Flexible Society: The Connectivity Revolution and Resistance to Change, Praeger, 2003, and Playing Monopoly with the Devil: Dollarization and Local Currencies in Developing Countries, Yale University Press, 2006).
| | Turner ISOUN , Minister for Science and Technology, Nigeria | Professor Turner T. Isoun is the Honorable Minister of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology in Nigeria. Previously he was Director and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and founding father of the Niger Delta Wetlands Centre (NDWC). He was Executive Editor of the African Academy of Sciences. He has served as Vice Chancellor for Rivers State University of Science and Technology and has been a Special Advisor on Science and Technology to the Government of the Rivers State, a lecturer at the University of Nigeria, and a lecturer and Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Ibadan. He has been awarded research and travel grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Foundation (DAAD), the Commonwealth Fellowship Foundation, and the International Development Research Foundation (IDRC). Professor Isoun holds a B.Sc. (hons), D.V.M., and Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine and Pathology.
| | Steven JAFFEE , Lead Economist, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank | Steven Jaffee is Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department. He coordinates that Department's Commodity Risk Management Group and also works on broader issues related to agribusiness development. He was lead author of the Bank’s global study on emerging agro-food standards and their impact on exports from developing countries. His field experience has been in Africa, South Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean. He has a D.Phil. in Agricultural Economics from Oxford University.
| | Wayne JOHNSON , VP of University-Industry Relations, HP | Wayne C. Johnson is the Vice President for Hewlett-Packard Company’s University Relations Worldwide, located at HP Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. He is responsible for higher education programs in research, marketing and sales, recruitment, continuing education, public affairs and philanthropy. Johnson joined HP in 2001 from Microsoft’s University Relations department where he managed Program Managers and administrative staff across a customer base of 50 tier-one universities. From 1967 to 2000, he held a variety of positions at the Raytheon Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, including National Sales Manager for Wireless Solutions, Manager of International Financing and Business Development, Manager of Administration and Strategic Planning for Raytheon’s Research Division, and Manager of Program Development and Operations for Technical Services. Johnson received his B.A. from Colgate University, Hamilton, NY and his M.B.A. from Boston College’s Carroll School, Boston, MA. He was an Adjunct Professor of Management at Boston University from 1977 to 1999.
| | Calestous JUMA , Professor of the Practice of International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He is a former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi, and he also served as Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He has been elected to several scientific academies including the Royal Society of London, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He has won several international awards for his work on sustainable development. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and environment. He teaches courses in developmental policy as part of the MPA/ID Program. He is lead author of Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development. He is editor of the International Journal of Technology and Globalisation and International Journal of Biotechnology.
| | Donald KABERUKA , President, African Development Bank | Mr. Donald Kaberuka is the 7th elected President of the African Development Bank Group. Mr. Kaberuka was educated in Tanzania and the United Kingdom where he obtained his M Phil (Econ) and a PhD in Economics from Glasgow University in Scotland. He is fluent in English, French and Swahili. He served as Rwanda’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning since 1997, and has been widely acknowledged as the principal architect of the successful post-war reconstruction and economic reform programme. He initiated and implemented major economic and governance reforms in the fiscal, monetary, budgetary and structural domains including independence of the Central Banks. These reforms resulted in the widely acclaimed recovery of the Rwandan economy, sustained economic growth and enabled the country to benefit from debt cancellations under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in April 2005. Mr. Kaberuka had 12 years experience in the Banking industry, trade finance, international commodity business and Development issues, before he joined the government. As minister for Finance and Economic Planning, the new President was Governor for Rwanda at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank.
| | Ruth KAGIA , Education Sector Director, Human Development Network, World Bank | Ruth Kagia, a Kenyan national, joined the Bank in August 1990 as an education specialist in the Africa Region. In July 1994, she transferred to the East Asia and Pacific Region as a senior education specialist and in September 1996 returned to the Africa Region as Sector Manager for Human Development for the Eastern and Southern African region. She was promoted in September 1999 to Director for Strategy and Operations in the Human Development Network anchor, and then to Director of Education for the Human Development Network in March 2001, the position she currently holds. Prior to joining the Bank in 1990, Ms. Kagia worked for 17 years in Kenya and Eastern Africa where she held several senior positions in teaching, research and management, among them head of research for the Kenya National Examinations Council, deputy managing director for the Kenya Literature Bureau, and consultant to UNICEF and the World Bank regional office in Nairobi.
| | Crispus M. KIAMBA , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, Kenya | Professor Crispus M. Kiamba is, since March 2006, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of Kenya. Prior to this position, for period of two years, he was the Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Commissioner for Higher Education (CHE) in Kenya. Before joining the CHE he had served for three years as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi. He has previously held several senior academic and administrative positions at the University of Nairobi. A land/urban economist, Professor Kiamba holds a B.A. (Land Economy) from the University of Nairobi, a M.Sc. from the University of Reading and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He also holds two Executive Education Certificates (one in Science, Technology and Innovation) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
| | Regina LACAYO OYANGUREN , Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Nicaragua | Regina has more than eighteen years of progressively responsible experience in development projects, management, public policy and public administration. She obtained a Master in Public Administration, (MPA), Harvard University (1995) and a degree in Organizational Development, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey and American University (UAM), Managua, Nicaragua, and a Degree in Business Administration, Central American University (UCA), Managua, Nicaragua. Regina was the Project Coordinator, Innovation Technology Support in Nicaragua, a US$ 9 million dollar pilot project. The project involved the design and implementation of financial model (matching grants) for small and medium enterprises implementing technological innovation plans, and institutional support for MIFIC and CONICYT. Regina’s other professional positions include Executive Secretary National Science and Technology Council, CONICYT, Nicaragua 2006; and as Organizational Developer, Macroeconomic Assistance Project, funded by the German Technical Cooperation agency from 1996 to 2001.
| | Bruno LAPORTE , Manager, Knowledge for Development and Human Development, World Bank Institute | Bruno Laporte, a French national, led the Bank wide Knowledge Sharing Program since November 2000 and recently became the Manager of the Knowledge for Development and Human Development unit of the World Bank Institute. He pioneered the development of the innovative global best practice system in education, organized around Thematic Groups and the Education Advisory Service. He has also been very active in shaping overall corporate strategies for knowledge sharing. Mr. Laporte joined the Bank in March 1985 as an education economist with the Europe, Middle East and North Africa (EMENA) Projects Department. Since then, he has worked extensively on education, training, and employment issues in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and East Asia. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Laporte worked as an advisor in the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Cote d'Ivoire, focusing on investment strategies in education and training. He also worked in the private sector, as a Loan Officer for Manufacturers Hanover Trust in Paris. He holds degrees in Business Administration from France and in Education Administration and Planning from Harvard University.
| | Robin McLAY , Director, Research, CIDA | | | | Shirley MALCOM , Head, Education and Human Resources, American Association for the Advancement of Science | Shirley Malcom is Head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The directorate includes AAAS programs in education, activities for underrepresented groups, and public understanding of science and technology. Dr. Malcom serves on several boards—including the Howard Heinz Endowment and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment—and is an honorary trustee of the American Museum of Natural History. In 2006 she was named as co-chair of the National Science Board Commission on 21st Century Education in STEM. She serves as a Regent of Morgan State University and as a trustee of Caltech. In addition, she has chaired a number of national committees addressing education reform and access to scientific and technical education, careers and literacy. Dr. Malcom is a former trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served on the National Science Board, the policymaking body of the National Science Foundation, from 1994 to 1998, and from 1994-2001 served on the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Malcom received her doctorate in ecology from Pennsylvania State University; master's degree in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles; and bachelor's degree with distinction in zoology from the University of Washington. She also holds 14 honorary degrees. In 2003 Dr. Malcom received the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the highest award given by the Academy.
| | Daniel MALKIN , Deputy Manager, Education, Science and Technology Subdepartment, Inter-American Development Bank | Daniel Malkin joined the Inter-American Development Bank in September 2005 as Deputy manager of the newly created sub-Department of Education, Science and Technology. In the IDB, one of his main responsibilities is to mainstream human capital development and innovation policies as key components of national development agenda and IDB financial and technical assistance activities. He is in charge of overseeing technical support for operations in the S&T, ICT and Education areas, to ensure that these operations contribute to the development of best S&T policy practices and foster the innovation performance of Latin American and Caribbean countries. Prior to joining the IDB, Daniel Malkin headed the Science and Technology Policy Division of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI). Daniel Malkin graduated from the École Polytechnique in Paris. He completed his post graduate studies as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California (Berkeley) and at the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School).
| | William MALONEY , Lead Economist, Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America Region, World Bank | William F. Maloney is Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) of the Latin America and Caribbean region. Dr. Maloney has published on issues related to international trade, the impact and sequencing of liberalization, speculative attacks on currencies, developing country labor markets and issues of innovation. Before joining the Bank permanently, Mr. Maloney was a Professor of International and Development Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1990-1997). He also served as a consultant for the Bank on Mexico (1994-95) and Nigeria (1986) and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1982). Mr. Maloney received a B.A. degree from Harvard University (1981), where he studied economics and political science. He then studied at the University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia (1982-83) before attending the University of California Berkeley for his Ph.D. in Economics (1990).
| | Ramesh MASHELKAR , President, Global Research Alliance | Dr. R.A. Mashelkar is presently the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the largest chain of publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in the world, with thirty-eight laboratories and about 20,000 employees. Dr. Mashelkar is the current President of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Fellow of Royal Society (FRS) London, and Foreign Associate of National Academy of Science (USA). Twenty-five universities have honoured him with honorary doctorates, which include Universities of London, Salford, Pretoria, Wisconsin and Delhi. In August 1997, Business India named Dr. Mashelkar as being among the 50 path-breakers in the post- Independent India. Dr. Mashelkar has been propagating a culture of innovation and balanced intellectual property rights regime for over a decade. It was through his sustained and visionary campaign that growing awareness of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has dawned on Indian academics, researches and corporates. As Chairman of the Standing Committee on Information Technology of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), as a member of the International Intellectual Property Rights Commission of UK Government and as Vice Chairman on Commission in Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH) set up by World Health Organization (WHO), he brought new perspectives on the issue of IPR and the developing world concerns.
| | Venâncio MASSINGUE , Minister of Science and Technology, Mozambique | Professor. Venâncio Massingue, PhD, was born in 1960 in Chibuto district, Mozambique. In 1982 he qualified as an electronic and electrical engineering technician in 1982. He also holds a Doctoral degree in Management and Control in Application of Information and Communication Technology from the Technology University of Delft (TUDelft), in the Netherlands. His professional carrier has evolved from electrical engineering technician 1982-1986, after joining the newly created Informatics Centre (CIUEM) at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM). From 1997 to 2005 Dr. Venâncio Massingue was Vice-Rector for Administration & Resources and Information and Communications Technologies at UEM and in 2005 was appointed Minister of Science and Technology. As Director of CIUEM Dr. Venâncio Massingue was a key player in bringing the Internet to Mozambique and in developing CIUEM as a centre of expertise for South-South cooperation programmes, within the framework of the MHO programme. From 1996 to date he served on many national and international committees concerned with ICT, including the African Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) of UN-ECA, and the UNESCO Intergovernmental Informatics Programme. Currently, he is the Executive Secretary of the Mozambique Acacia Advisory Committee and the president of the UNESCO Regional Informatics for Africa (RINAF).
| | John A. MATHEWS , Professor of Strategic Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia | John A. Mathews (Ph.D., Imperial College London) is professor of strategic management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney. His research on international business and entrepreneurship has been published in such journal as California Management Review, Journal of World Business, Research Policy, Asia Pacific Journal of Management and New Political Economy. His most recent book is Strategizing, Disequilibrium and Profit, published by Stanford University Press in 2006. Earlier books were Tiger Technology: The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia (Cambridge University Press 2000) and Dragon Multinational: A New Model of Global Growth (Oxford University Press 2002). His current interests focus on how developing countries can harness the biofuels revolution to drive their own development and reduce the burden of fossil fuel imports, capturing latecomer effects as they do so. His Viewpoint article on this topic has just been accepted by the journal Energy Policy.
| | Parker MITCHELL , CEO, Engineers Without Borders, Canada | Parker Mitchell is the co-founder and co-CEO of Engineers Without Borders Canada, an emerging player in the area of technical cooperation and public engagement. In the past five years EWB has sent over 200 young Canadian engineers to work in developing countries for up to two years to build capacity in the rural technical sector. EWB has won a number of prominent national and international awards for their work. Parker graduated from the University of Waterloo as the gold medalist with a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts. He completed a Master's in Development Studies at Cambridge University and prior to founding EWB worked with McKinsey & Company and Magna Automotive. For his work with EWB, he has been named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 and was profiled in TIME Magazine as one of Canada's next generation of social leaders. He has also co-founded Canada25, an organization which seeks to engage Canadians active in public policy, and is the Chair of the Board of the North York Community House.
| | Sudha NAIR , Programme Director, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India | Dr Sudha Nair is a Ph. D in Microbiology and is currently a Program Director in Eco-technology, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. She works in the area of harnessing science & technology to promote sustainable livelihoods for the rural poor. She is part of various Committees at the National (Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi) and International (TWAS, UNESCO, Regional Office AP Region, etc) to promote equity for Women in Science and in taking the benefits of Science to Women. She serves on the board of studies for Universities and LEAD Fellow. She was the convenor of the first Women’ Biotechnology Park in Chennai, India. She has students doing their doctoral work and has numerous significant publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is the National Women Bioscientist awardee, 2001 and Prof. B.D. Tilak Award 2006.
| | Botlhale OCTAVIA TEMA , Director, Department of Human Resources Science and Technology, African Union Commission | | | | Geoffrey OLDHAM , Honorary Professor and Former Director, SPRU, University of Sussex, United Kingdom | Professor Geoffrey Oldham CBE trained as a geophysicist and spent several years in the exploration research laboratories of Standard Oil Company of California. He went on to work with the Scientific Directorate of OECD and helped start the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex was Director from 1980 to 1992. He also directed the Canadian International Development Research Centre’s Science and Technology Policy Programme for ten years and served as Science Adviser to the President of IDRC from 1992 to 1996. Geoffrey has served on numerous science and technology policy advisory bodies. He was a member of the Hong Kong Committee for Scientific Co-ordination, chairman of the UN Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development and the UK delegate to the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development. He has continued to be a member of the Commission’s Gender Advisory Board and is an Honorary Professor with SPRU at the University of Sussex.
| | Nanci S. PALMINTERE , Vice President, Finance and Enterprise Services, Intel Corporation | Nanci S. Palmintere is vice president of Finance and Enterprise Services and director of Global Tax and Trade for Intel Corporation. She directs the worldwide organization responsible for all tax, export licensing, and customs planning and compliance. Palmintere is also responsible for all negotiations with the IRS, state and local tax authorities, and foreign tax authorities. An internationally recognized expert on taxation, Palmintere has testified before the U.S. Senate and state legislatures on a variety of tax policies and proposed legislation, has received National Commendation from the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service on audit simplification, and is a frequent speaker on audit, tax administration, and employee benefits issues. Additionally, Palmintere is a founding director of Silicon Valley Employee Benefits and Compensation Association, a member of the State Bar of California, the ABA, Financial Executive Institutes Committee on Taxation, and a member of the Silicon Valley Tax Directors group. Palmintere received a Juris Doctor degree from Santa Clara University Law School and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.
| | Bonnie PATTERSON , President, Trent University; Chair, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada | Bonnie Patterson became President and Vice-Chancellor of Trent University on July 1, 1998. An accomplished teacher and academic administrator, Professor Patterson came to Trent after serving as President of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), an advocacy and university services group representing the interests of Ontario's 17 universities. President Patterson is currently a Professor in Trent's Business Administration Department. Her academic career includes positions as Dean, Faculty of Business, Professor, School of Administration and Information Management, and Special Assistant to the President of Ryerson University, Toronto. Professor Patterson holds a B.A. and M.L.S. from the University of Western Ontario. She was elected Chair of the Board of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) in October 2005, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Council of Ontario Universities. President Patterson is one of four Canadian University Presidents appointed to the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. In June of 2005, she assumed the Chair of the Board of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. She also serves as Honorary Chair of the ALS Society in the Peterborough Region. The President's second term continues until 2009.
| | Joy PHUMAPHI , Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank | Joy, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana as a local government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to serve in Parliament and as a representative to the Southern African Development Community. She entered the Cabinet with responsibility for lands and housing and developed the first national housing policy. Joy subsequently served as Minister for Health where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. Since 2003 until her recent move to the World Bank, Joy has worked at the World Health Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health Department, managing a staff of over 1100 globally and has worked with our colleagues at the Bank as the World Health Organization's representative to the GAVI Board. Joy holds a Master of Science degree in Financial Accounting and Decision Sciences from Miami University, Ohio.
| | María del PILAR NORIEGA , Directora Técnica, ICPIC, Colombia |
| | Julian SCHWEITZER , Sector Director, South Asia Region, World Bank | Julian Schweitzer is Director of the Human Development Sector in the South Asia Region of the World Bank, responsible for the Bank’s operations in health, nutrition, population, education and social Protection. During his career in the Bank he has worked on human development issues in the Middle East and North Africa, on the transition economies of Europe and in Latin America. He has led and managed operations across the human development spectrum. He also worked as the operations manager in the Bank’s East Asia and Pacific region and earlier in the decade was the Bank’s Country Director in Russia. Since returning to the South Asia Region in 2004, Schweitzer has reorganized the HIV/AIDS function and has strengthened the Banks advisory and financial role, including ensuring collaboration with external partners. Before joining the Bank, Mr. Schweitzer worked in the public and private sectors in the UK and India. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of London and has authored a number of articles and chapters of books in the economic and human development fields.
| | Hasit “Tiku” SHAH , Managing Director, Sunripe, and Chairman, Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya | Hasit “Tiku” Shah is currently the Managing Director of the Sunripe Group of Companies and Chair, Fresh Produce Exporters Association pf Kenya. Sunripe currently employs over 2200 employees and exports more than 40 product lines (prepared-ready to cook, pre-packs , wash and cook vegetables) to 22 countries. He has a M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Finance from the University of Southern California and also a B.S. in Electrical Engineering also from the University of Southern California. In February 2005he was involved in laying out an action plan with Chairman EUREPGAP as Chairman FPEAK that includes benchmarking the Kenya GAP protocol with EUREPGAP.
| | Amy SMITH , Instructor, MIT Edgerton Center | Amy Smith is the founder of the International Development Initiative at the MIT Edgerton Center and has taught classes related to this subject for eight years. After graduating from MIT in mechanical engineering, she served in the US Peace Corps in Botswana for four years and has also done field work in Senegal, South Africa, Nepal, Haiti, Honduras, Ghana and Zambia. She has taught engineering design at a variety of levels, ranging from undergraduate courses in mechanical engineering to high school enrichment programs to graduate courses in sustainable development. She won the 1999 BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventor's Award for her work on a phase-change incubator that operates without electricity and also won the 2000 MIT-Lemelson Student Prize for Invention. In 2001 she co-founded of the Service Learning program at MIT and started the Public Service Design Seminars as part of this initiative. She is also one of the co-founders of the MIT IDEAS Competition. In 2003 she began teaching D-Lab, a series of courses and field trips that focus on international development, appropriate technologies, and sustainable solutions for communities in developing countries. In 2004 she was selected as a MacArthur Fellow, recognizing her efforts in creating technologies to improve lives in the developing world and for finding opportunities to inspire students to do the same. Her current projects are in the areas of water testing and treatment, agricultural processing and alternative energy.
| | Wole SOBOYEJO , African Institutes for Science and Technology | Wole Soboyejo was educated in England before moving to the United States in 1988 to become a research scientist at The McDonnell Douglas Research Labs in St. Louis, MO. In 1992, he worked briefly as a Principal Research Engineer at the Edison Welding Institute before joining the engineering faculty of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at MIT. Dr. Soboyejo moved to Princeton University in 1999 as a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials. Current areas of interest include micromechanical machines, nanoparticles for disease detection, biomedical systems for prostheses, and cardiovascular systems, infrastructure materials, and alternative energy systems.
| | Sergio TRINDADE , President, SE2T International | Dr. Trindade has a long experience in energy, technology and environmental consulting and management, with a variety of organizations, private and public, all over the world. His career included periods at Shell, Stone & Webster, Arthur D. Little, Inc., Promon (a large Brazilian technology company), and the United Nations, where he was the Assistant Secretary-General for Science and Technology. For the past 15 years Dr. Trindade has expanded his international consulting and management work at SE2T International, Ltd., which he incorporated in New York. He is also helping International Fuel Technology, Inc. disseminate its fuel efficiency enhancing and lower emissions technology in world markets. He started his professional career designing, building and operating the first sorbitol (hydrogenated sugar) plant in Latin America. His work on alternative fuels and biofuels, especially fuel ethanol, is recognized worldwide. He is the senior most member and thrice chairman of the International Symposia on Alcohol Fuels – ISAF, the longest running world series of conferences on alcohol fuels. He holds a PhD, ChE and MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with minors in international business and energy economics. His BSc in Chemical Engineering was earned at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
| | John VARNEY , Fellow of International Business, Newcastle Business School, University of Northumbria, UK | John has been involved in both the design and delivery of supplier development initiatives in several countries. He was technical director of the Czech supplier Development Programme and is currently working on a similar programme in Serbia. His work is designed to link FDI with linkage programmes, capacity building and technology and knowledge transfer. His work is very much of a practical nature engaging transnational companies in supplier development and the partnering of local suppliers for technology transfer. John’s background is in engineering working mainly in the oil and gas industry. He consults to industry and teaches on Masters programmes in the UK and overseas.
| | Robert WATSON , Chief Scientist & Director, ESSD, The World Bank | Dr. Robert T. Watson is the Chief Scientist and Director for Sustainable Development at the World Bank. He has played a key role in the negotiation of global environment conventions and the evolution of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). In May 1996, Dr. Watson joined the World Bank as Senior Scientific Advisor in the Environment Department. In July 1997, he became the Director of the Environment Department and Head of the Environment Sector Board. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Watson was Associate Director for Environment in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President in the White House. Prior to joining the Clinton White House, Dr. Watson was Director of the Science Division and Chief Scientist for the Office of Mission to Planet Earth at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Dr. Watson received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from London University in 1973. He has received many national and international awards and prizes for his contributions to science, including the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility in 1993 and the insignia of Honorary Companion of St. Michael and St. George from the British Government on December 10, 2003.
| | Charles WEISS , Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service | Charles Weiss is Distinguished Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and directed its program in Science, Technology and International Affairs from 1997-2006. He holds a B.A., summa cum laude, in chemistry and physics, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and chemical physics, both from Harvard University. He was the first Science and Technology Adviser to the World Bank, and served in that capacity from 1971-86. He taught and helped launch the program in science and technology policy at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Scholar at the University of California (Berkeley), Course Director at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, and Professorial Lecturer at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous publications on international science and technology policy, and edited Technology, Finance and Development (Lexington MA: Lexington Press, 1984), a book-length account of the Bank’s support to science and technology during the 1970s and early 1980s.
| | Claudio WERNLI , Executive Director, Millennium Science Initiative Chile | Claudio Wernli, a Chilean and Swiss citizen, is an Agronomist and holds a Ph.D on Forage Utilization and Animal Production from the University of Reading, U.K. Currently he is Executive Director of the Millennium Science Initiative Program of the Ministry of Planning of Chile. Claudio Wernli is full professor in Agronomy of the Universidad de Chile as well as has been invited professor in CATIE, Costa Rica, and INTA, Argentina, and SUPCYT, Uruguay. He represented Latin America and The Caribbean at the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and has been FAO Consultant for Latin America and The Caribbean; IICA consultant on agronomy and research priorities with BID, RISPAL and ALPA; and has also been a consultant working in development projects at regional or farm levels in Chile. He is member of the Board of Trustees of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); of the Board at the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development; the enterprise Inversiones Libertad S.A., and past member at the University of Tarapacá. In the field of philanthropy, he is President of the Foundation for the Formation of Youngsters.
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