Journal article
Global Grand Challenges for Engineering and International Development
Harvard international review, Vol.35(1)
22 Jun 2013
Abstract
In March 2013, 450 of the world's top engineers, scientists, economists, designers, artists, philosophers, policymakers, and, importantly, students, convened at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London for the inaugural "Global Grand Challenges Summit." The goal of the summit was to explore collaborative approaches for tackling global grand challenges, fostering a spirit of inter-disciplinary and international cooperation to meet the world's most pressing needs. The two-day conference was organized around six major themes: sustainability, health, education, enriching life, technology and growth, and resilience. The conference opened with a plenary address by Dr. J. Craig Venter, a trailblazing US biologist who was one of the first to sequence the human genome and the first to create a cell with a synthetic genome. A fellow panelist, Calestous Juma, a renowned Kenyan scholar and Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, presented a perspective on sustainable technology development from developing countries.
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- Title
- Global Grand Challenges for Engineering and International Development
- Creators
- Sujata Bhatia
- Publication Details
- Harvard international review, Vol.35(1)
- Publisher
- Harvard International Relations Council
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Identifiers
- 991021463715004721