Reinventing African Economies: Technological Innovation and the Sustainability Transition
Speaker:
Calestous Juma
06 Apr 2006
7:00 PM
Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, ISU Center
2006 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture - Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government. He also coordinated the United Nations Millennium Project's Task Force on Science and Technology and Innovation, and is a former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.