Transformative Technologies for Sustainable Global Development

Speaker: 
Shashi Buluswar
 
12 Apr 2017
 
6:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Shashi Buluswar, founder and former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies, wanted to know what scientific breakthroughs could match the polio vaccine in its transformative impact on global human development. After two years of investigation and analysis, his team issued the report “50 Breakthroughs: Critical Scientific and Technological Advances Needed for Sustainable Global Development." It covers needed technologies in a variety of areas, including global health, food security and agricultural development, human rights, education, water resources, digital inclusion, resilience against climate change and access to electricity. Shashi Buluswar is currently CEO of LIGTT's successor, the Institute for Transformative Technologies, and teaches international development at the University of California at Berkeley. Graduate & Professional Student Research Conference Keynote

More information about the 2017 Graduate & Professional Student Research Conference is available online at [url=http://www.gpss.iastate.edu/research-conference]www.gpss.iastate.edu/research-conference.[/url] Buluswar worked previously as a partner at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a consulting firm that serves a broad spectrum of clients in international development. He holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts in robotics and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.