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Laura
Altinger serves as Economic
Advisor in the Office of the Director,
Environment, Housing and Land Management Division at the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and focuses on climate change
and green economy issues. Previously, as Research Director, she played
a key role in creating the Humanitarian Response Index, endorsed by
Kofi Annan. In 2006, she worked as Associate Director at the World
Economic Forum, contributing to a number of publications and underlying
indexes, including the Global Competitiveness
Report 2006–2007, the Global
Gender Gap Study 2006, the Latin America Review 2006, and the Global
Information Technology Report 2006.
She served six years at the United
Nations, preparing various editions of the Economic Survey of Europe
and analytical studies on environmental issues for the Aarhus
Convention Secretariat. She has also held positions at the European
Commission in Kenya and the Council of the European Union. Laura holds
a PhD from the London Business School, an MA from the University of
Cambridge, an MSc from Bristol University and a Graduate Diploma of Law
from the College of Law, London. She recently co-founded the London
Business School Carbon Club, and acts as its co-President. |
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Ester
Basri is a Senior Analyst in the OECD Directorate for Science,
Technology and Industry. She is responsible for the Working Group on
Research Institutions and Human Resources (RIHR), which analyses
institutional, regulatory, and management issues facing governments as
they aim to strengthen the capabilities of their public research
institutions. Ester is the coordinator of the Science, Technology and
Industry Outlook publication and has worked on a number of horizontal
projects within the OECD including the Tertiary Education Review. She
is co-leading the work on human capital for the OECD’s Innovation
Strategy. Prior to joining the OECD in 2006, Ester managed an academic
research centre at the University of Western Sydney, was the manager of
the Innovation Analysis Section at the Australian Department of
Industry and was part of the Prime Minister’s Mapping Science and
Innovation Taskforce at the Education and Science Ministry. She holds a
PhD from the Australian National University. |
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Sarah
Box is an economist in the OECD's Directorate for Science,
Technology and Industry. Her current role involves analyzing issues
related to human capital and innovation, as well as public research
organizations. She also contributes to the Directorate’s regular
examination of trends, prospects, and policy directions in science,
technology, and industry. Prior to joining the OECD, Sarah began her
career as an analyst at the New Zealand Treasury, where she undertook
research on such topics as economic geography and economic integration.
She also provided policy advice on telecommunications and regional,
industry, and economic development. Following this, she worked as a
Senior Research Economist for the Australian Government Productivity
Commission, where she co-authored analytical reports providing policy
advice on microeconomic issues. She holds Master of Commerce and
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degrees in economics from the University
of Auckland, New Zealand. |
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Simon
Commander is Managing Partner of Altura Advisers and
Senior
Adviser at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in
London. Between 1999 and 2008, he was a faculty member and Director of
the Centre for New and Emerging Markets at London Business School. He
holds a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Cambridge University.
He previously worked for over a decade at the World Bank in Washington,
DC, in research, training and operations, while serving in a range of
university posts. He has published widely in peer-reviewed research
journals as well as books. |
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Alexander
Ebner is
Professor of Socio-Economics at Goethe University in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has also held teaching and research
positions at Jacobs University Bremen, the University of Erfurt in
Germany, and the Grenoble École de Management in France. Dr. Ebner
maintains research affiliations with the University of California at
Berkeley and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. His
main research interests focus on innovation, governance, and
international development. He is the author of Embedded
Entrepreneurship (Routledge) and co-edited the volume Institutions of
the Market (Oxford University Press). He received his PhD in
economics
and political science from Goethe University. |
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Anil
K. Gupta is a professor at the Centre for Management in
Agriculture of the Indian Institute of Management, and Coordinator of
the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies
and Institutions (SRISTI) and the Honey Bee Network of India. Dr. Gupta
has devoted himself to analyzing the indigenous knowledge of farmers,
artisans, and pastoralists, building bridges to science-based
knowledge, and to ensuring that grassroots innovators are both
encouraged and given credit for the results of their initiative and
creativity. For his unique work in this area, Professor Gupta was
elected at a young age to India's National Academy of Agricultural
Sciences and received a Pew Conservation Scholar Award from University
of Michigan. He was judged one of the 50 most influential people in the
field of intellectual property rights in the world in 2003 and was
accorded the Padma Shri National Award by the President of India for
distinguished achievements in the field of management education. Prof.
Gupta earned an MA in Biochemical Genetics in 1974 from Haryana
Agricultural University, Haryana, and his PhD in management from
Kurukshetra University (India) in 1986. |
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Markus
Haacker is a growth and development economist based in
London.
From 1999–2008, he worked at the International Monetary Fund, mainly at
the African Department. Since 2008, he has been an Honorary Lecturer at
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and as a consultant
to the World Bank. His work on the macroeconomic aspects of information
and communication technologies includes contributions to the
International Monetary Fund’s World
Economic Outlook and the Global
Information Technology Report
published by the World Economic Forum.
Other notable work includes several publications on macroeconomic and
fiscal aspects of HIV/AIDS and the response to HIV/AIDS, notably the
"Macroeconomics of HIV/AIDS," published by the IMF. Dr. Haacker is
chairman of the German publishing house ARCO. He holds a PhD in
Economics from the London School of Economics. |
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Alan
Hughes is Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise
Studies at the
Judge Business School and Director of the Centre for Business Research
at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Sidney
Sussex College. He is the Director of the UK Innovation Research
Centre, a joint venture between Cambridge and Imperial College, London.
He has worked extensively on the role of universities in innovation and
on the nature of knowledge exchange patterns between universities and
the science base. His work in this area with colleagues at the Centre
for Business Research, Cambridge, and at the Industrial Performance
Center at MIT has been published in the report by Cosh, Hughes and
Lester UK PLC: Just How Innovative
Are We? He is currently completing
an analysis on university-industry links at national and regional
levels
(University-Industry Knowledge Exchange: Demand Pull, Supply Push and
the Public Space Role of Higher Education Institutions in the UK
Regions). In 2004 he was appointed by the Prime Minister of the UK to
membership of the UK’s senior policy advisory body, the Council for
Science and Technology. |
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Adam
B. Jaffe is Fred C. Hecht Professor in Economics and Dean
of the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University. He was previously
Professor and Chair of the Economics Department, having come to
Brandeis in 1994 from Harvard University. A graduate of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SB in Chemistry, 1976; SM in
Technology and Policy, 1978) and Harvard University (PhD in in
Economics, 1985), Jaffe is the author of two books: Patents, Citations
and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy (with Manuel
Trajtenberg, 2002), and Innovation
and Its Discontents: How Our Broken
Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress and What to Do
About It (with Josh Lerner, 2004). He was a co-founder of the
Innovation Policy and the Economy group of the National Bureau of
Economic Research and served as senior staff economist at the
President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1990–91). Research interests
include intellectual property, science and technology policy, and
innovation related to environment and energy. |
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Christopher Jahns
is President of the European Business School (EBS) at the International
University in Wiesbaden/Oestrich-Winkel. From 2006 to 2009, he served
as Dean and CEO of EBS, during which time he was founder of the House
of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM), the first European logistics and
mobility campus planned at Frankfurt Airport. Since 2007, he has been a
Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore
and Lomonosov University, in Moscow. Dr. Jahns has trained hundreds of
executives in international corporations and MBA programmes in BRIC
countries. From 1998 to 2003, he was Lecturer and Research Associate in
the MBA Program in International Management at Munich Technical
University, and Lecturer in General Management for Executives in the
Management Programme in St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests
include intercultural, strategic, financial, global supply, innovation,
and human resource management, organizational change, and strategies
and methods for logistics service providers, in cooperation with
international researchers at Harvard Business School, Erasmus
University in Rotterdam, the Copenhagen Business School, and the
Management Development Institute in New Delhi. He is currently Chairman
of the Board of BrainNet Supply Management Group AG, a leading
consulting and training company, specializing in procurement,
logistics, and supply-chain management. Dr. Jahns holds a Ph.D. in
Business Administration from the Technical University of Munich. |
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Daniel
Kaufmann is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and
Development program at the Brookings Institution. Most recently, he
served as Director in the World Bank Institute, where he pioneered new
approaches to measure and analyze governance and corruption, helping
countries formulate action programs. Well known for his writing on
governance, corruption, and development, Kaufmann and his colleagues
have pioneered new approaches to the diagnosis and analysis of country
governance. At the World Bank, he also held senior positions focused on
finance, regulation, anti-corruption, and capacity building for Latin
America. After working as a senior economist in Africa, he served as
lead economist both in economies-in-transition and in the World Bank's
research department. In the early 1990s, Kaufmann was the first Chief
of Mission of the World Bank to the Ukraine, and then held a visiting
position at Harvard University, prior to resuming his career at the
World Bank. His research on economic development, governance, the
unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption,
privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in
leading journals. Kaufmann is a Chilean national who received his MA
and PhD in Economics at Harvard, and a BA in Economics and
Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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Mohsen
Khalil is a joint Director at the World Bank and the
International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the Global Information and
Communication Technologies Department. He oversees the World Bank
Groups activities concerning telecommunications and information
technologies world-wide, advising governments on sector reforms,
regulatory frameworks, and institutional capacity building, in addition
to supporting private investments in developing countries. Dr. Khalil
held the post of Director of IFC's Central Asia, Middle East and North
Africa Department, and as Chief Investment Officer in the
Telecommunications, Transport, and Utilities Department. He was a
Professor of Business at the American University of Beirut, and served
as Chief Advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Post and
Telecommunications, the Board Director of Lebanon's Autonomous Fund for
Housing, and various governments and major corporations in the Middle
East. He received an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, an MS from MIT Sloan School of
Management, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Southern California. |
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Josh
Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment
Banking at
Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and
Entrepreneurial Management Units. He graduated from Yale College with a
Special Divisional Major that combined physics with the history of
technology. Before obtaining his PhD in economics at Harvard, he
worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation
and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private
task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. Dr. Lerner focuses on the
world of alternative investments, with a particular emphasis on venture
capital and private equity, and how public policies can boost
entrepreneurship and technological and financial innovation. He is
leading an international team of scholars in a multi-year study of the
future of alternative investments for the World Economic Forum. He is
the author (with Adam Jaffe) of Innovation
and Its Discontents, a
textbook Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, and
many
articles published in academic journals. |
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Augusto
López-Claros is honorary professor at the European
Business
School in Frankfurt. He is also the founder of EFD–Global Consulting
Network, an international consultancy specializing in economic,
financial, and development issues. From 2003 to 2006, he was Chief
Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the
World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he led the effort to expand the
international profile of the Forum's work on issues of economic growth
and productivity. At the Forum, he served as Editor of the Forum's Global Competitiveness Report and a
number of other publications
exploring issues of growth and development in various regions of the
world and the impact of innovation, technology, and gender on economic
growth. Before joining the Forum, he was Executive Director and Senior
International Economist with Lehman Brothers International (London),
and Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund in the
Russian Federation (Moscow) from 1992 to 1995. Prior to joining the
IMF, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Chile in
Santiago. He has written and lectured extensively in the United States,
Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia on a broad range of subjects,
including aspects of economic reform in transition economies, economic
integration, the role of technology and innovation in advancing the
development process, interdependence and cooperation, governance,
gender, and the role of international organizations. Dr. López-Claros
received his PhD in Economics from Duke University and a diploma in
Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University. |
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Yasmina
N. Mata is a consultant with EFD—Global Consulting
Network,
formerly a researcher with the Center for Biological Research (CIB),
which forms part of the National Research Council, in Madrid. She
collaborates with the Extractive Metallurgy Research Group of
Complutense University. She is pursuing a career as an independent
consultant, offering scientific, academic, and research knowledge in
areas of innovation not traditionally linked to natural sciences, and
bridging different scientific and academic disciplines. She has
published a number of papers in specialized journals about the
biosorption processes of heavy and precious metals with biomass. Dr.
Mata received two undergraduate degrees in Biology and a PhD in Science
from Complutense University. |
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Ellen Olafsen
is an Operations Officer at infoDev, a multi-donor
partnership for technology-enabled innovation hosted by the World Bank.
Her responsibilities include managing infoDev’s networks on business
incubation in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the
Middle East, which together comprise almost 200 business incubators in
80 developing countries. She also leads a team of business incubation
experts that help least-developed countries plan and operate their
business incubators effectively. Previously, Ellen worked for the
Grassroots Business Initiative of the International Finance
Corporation, and for the Development Gateway, where she led global
communities of practice on microfinance and the knowledge economy.
Ellen has an MBA in International Finance and an MA in International
Affairs, focused on small and medium enterprise development in Africa.
She received the Hall of Nations Award for scholarly promise from
American University. |
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Hernán
Rincón is President of Microsoft Latin America,
responsible for
both the long-term business and people strategy for 46 countries and
territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, including hiring and
retaining talented individuals and senior executives. He oversees all
sales, marketing, and services operations and, as an ambassador for
Microsoft, is engaged in the Corporate Citizenship programs that enable
jobs, opportunities, and local innovation to support the economic and
social development of Latin America. Earlier, he served as the Sales
and Marketing Vice President for Microsoft Latin America. Prior to
joining Microsoft, Mr. Rincón was President and CEO of Ferag Americas
(a Swiss company specializing in state-of-the-art, high-tech solutions
for the print media industry) and held several executive positions at
Unisys global headquarters in Pennsylvania, USA. After completing a BA
in Mathematics and Computer Science from the State University of New
York, he received an MA from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government and an MA in Science from the Andes University, in Colombia.
As Citizenship Ambassador, Mr. Rincón is closely involved with the
education and technology access initiatives which are helping the
children and families in Latin America to realize their full potential. |
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Andrew
Stirling is Science Director at SPRU (Science and
Technology
Policy Research, University of Sussex), and co-directs the Economic and
Social Research Council STEPS Centre. Formerly a Director of Greenpeace
International, he has since collaborated with a range of government,
industry, and public interest organisations. His research interests
focus on technological risk, innovation policy, scientific uncertainty,
and democratic governance in a number of sectors, including energy,
chemicals, nuclear systems, medicine, and food. Dr. Stirling has been
involved in developing participatory appraisal methods, as well as
general frameworks for implementing the Precautionary Principle and
analyzing diversity, flexibility, and resilience in technology and
research. He has served on a number of policy advisory committees,
including the UK Government Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances and
GM Science Review Panel, the European Commission Expert Group on
Science and Governance, the Department for the Environment, Food, and
Rural Affairs’ Science Advisory Council, and the Sciencewise Panel of
the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. |
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Florian
Täube is Assistant Professor of Growth Management at the
Strascheg Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE) at the
European Business School (EBS) in Germany. Before joining EBS in 2008,
Dr. Täube was with the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the
Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London. His research
interests lie at the intersection of entrepreneurship, economic
geography, organization theory, and international business. Using
mainly qualitative methods, he focuses his studies on the
internationalization of project-based industries, particularly those
related to IT, film, pharmaceuticals, and construction. He has had a
long-standing interest is India, where he works with the evolution of
the Bangalore IT cluster, and on a collaborative project on the
organization, networks and growth strategies of the Indian film and
pharmaceutical industries. During his doctoral studies, he was a
Visiting Scholar to the Indian Institute of Science and The Wharton
School. Dr. Täube has published articles in the Journal of
International Management and Environment and Planning. He holds
a PhD
in Economics from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. |
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