Technology, Governance, and Global Development
Technical innovation is vital to solving problems of global development. Yet fundamental questions about the interdependence of technology and governance remain unanswered. The conference on Technology, Development, and Governance will bring together leaders from business, government and nonprofit organizations, as well as journalists, academics and philanthropists, to examine novel integrative approaches to poverty alleviation and human development around the world.
Two plenary sessions with keynote speakers Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Microsoft founder, and Condoleezza Rice, 66th Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, and four panels:
Megan Smith, VP, New Business Development, Google.org
Jared Cohen, Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State
Joshua Cohen, Martha Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society,
Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Law, and FSI affiliate
Nava Ashraf ’97, Associate Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School
Jane Chen MBA ‘08, founder, embraceglobal.org
Jonny
Dorsey ‘07, founder, FaceAID
Moderated by Coit D. Blacker, Director & Senior Fellow at FSI, Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies, School of Humanities and Sciences, Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
Reyad Fezzani, CEO, BP Solar
Paul Wise, the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and
Society, Professor of Pediatrics, and Senior Fellow, FSI
Clifford Samuel, Gilead Sciences
Sam Dryden, Director, Agricultural Development,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Roz Naylor, Professor of Environmental Earth
Systems Science, the William Wrigley Senior Fellow, FSI and the Woods
Institute for the Environment
Scott Rozelle, the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior
Fellow, FSI
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