There will be a public lecture on Rebooting African
innovation for development by Prof. Calestous Juma this coming Tuesday, 14 August
2012 at 2 PM at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC).
Who is Prof. Calestous Juma?
He is a Kenyan Professor of the Practice of International
Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Belfer Center’s
Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He holds a Ph.D. in science and
technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and
the environment.
Juma is also a former Executive Secretary of the United
Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African
Centre for Technology Studies. He was recently appointed to co-chair the new AU panel on science, technology, and innovation.
More on Juma and his work http://www.belfercenter.org/global
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