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Professor of the Practice of International Development
Harvard University, United States
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA
United States of America
Tel: +1 617-496-8127
Fax: +1 617-495-8963
Email:
Calestous Juma is Director of the Science, Technology and Innovation Program at the Center for International Development at Harvard University and Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Juma is former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (Geneva and Montreal) and former Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi (Kenya) which he founded in 1988. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde (UK), Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and Member of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences. He directed the International Diffusion of Biotechnology Programme of the International Federation of Institutes of Advanced Study and was senior research fellow of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. He was a member of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences and several other international initiatives. He serves or has served on the governing and advisory bodies of several international organizations including World Resources Institute (WRI), United Nations University's Institute for New Technologies, Center for International Environmental Law, and Earthwatch Institute. He has consulted for, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, World Intellectual Property Organization, Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and International Development Research Centre. He holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy Studies from the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex (UK). He has won several awards, including the 1991 Pew Scholars Award in Conservation and the Environment and the 1993 United Nations Global 500 Award. His research interests include science and technology studies, biotechnology, biological diversity and public policy, and international trade and environmental policy. He is currently working on a book on biotechnology and comparative public policy. His earlier works include Long-Run Economics: An Evolutionary Approach to Economic Growth (1987); The Gene Hunters: Biotechnology and the Scramble for Seeds (1989); Biodiplomacy: Genetic Resources and International Relations (1994); Coming to Life: Biotechnology in African Economic Recovery (1994); and In Land We Trust: Private Property, Environment and Constitutional Change (1996).
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Science, Technology, and Innovation Program
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Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)
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Water Management, Livelihoods, and Landscapes in the... Comision Fulbright (Quito)VISTA - Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services to... Université Joseph Fourier, France Using Culturally Sustainable Development as Spring Board... University of Helsinki, Finland EVENTS
The Integration of Sustainable Agriculture and.... November 12, 2009 Third International Conference on Sustainable Irrigation.... June 7, 2010 7th International Science Conference on the.... April 26, 2009 MEMBERS
William Freudenburg, University of California Pamela Matson, Stanford University, United States Jeffrey Broadbent, University of Minnesota PUBLICATIONS
Science for the Twenty-First Century: From Social Contract to the.... Gallopín, Gilberto, Silvio
Funtowicz, Martin O'Connor, and Jerry Ravetz.
Science and Technology, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development. Gallopín, Gilberto.
Millennial Perspective on Science, Technology and Development in Africa and.... African
Academy of Sciences
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The World Summit on Sustainable Development: Seeing the Negative Positively. Diego
Sustainable Development. ...
Sustainability Science of Local Communities.
Deep Narayan Pandey, Indian Forest Service
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