Summit Advisory Board for 2012
Abdulaziz Al-Hargan
CEO, BADIR, King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Abdallah Al-Najjar
CEO, Arab Science and Technology Foundation
Saad Andary
Second Vice Governor, Central Bank of Lebanon.
Norman A. Bailey
President, Institute for Global Economic Growth
Rich Bendis
President & CEO of Innovation America
CEO of BioHealth Innovation
Gary Bolles
co-founder, eParachute; founding co-producer, Social Capital Markets conference
Al Chase
Founder, White Rhino Partners
Rita Colwell
Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. and Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland College Park, and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Carol Dahl
Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation
Marc Dangeard
Mark Grobmyer
Founder and Co-Chairman, Global Technology Deployment Initiative
Ossama Hassanein
Founder, Newbury Ventures
Director, TechWadi
Rebeca Hwang
CEO, YouNoodle
PhD candidate, Stanford
Randall Kempner
Executive Director, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
Thane Kreiner
Executive Director, Santa Clara University Center for Science, Technology & Society
Kiyoshi Kurokawa
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan
Burton Lee
Lecturer, European Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Stanford School of Engineering
Managing Director, Innovarium Ventures
Alan Leshner
CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Ade Mabogunje
Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University Center for Venture Design Research
Francisco Manrique
Chairman, CONNECT Bogotá Région
Ramesh Mashelkar
National Research Professor & President, Global Research Alliance
Damon Matteo
Vice President Intellectual Capital Management, PARC
John May
Managing Partner of the New Vantage Group and Chair-Emeritus of Angel Capital Association
Maryanne McCormick
Executive Director, Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California
Romain Murenzi
former Minister of Science, Rwanda and Executive Director, Third World Academy of Sciences
Flora Painter
Chief of the Science and Technology Division, Inter-American Development Bank
Dirk Pilat
Head, Science and Technology Policy Division, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology & Industry
David Rolf
Vice President Corporate Development, CA Technologies
Francisco Sagasti
Senior Researcher, FORO Nacional Internacional, and Chairman of the Board, Program on Science and Technology, Office of the Prime Minister, Peru
AnnaLee Saxenian
Dean of School of Information, Univ. of California at Berkeley
Rohit Shukla
CEO, Larta Institute
Mike Sigal
founder, Agile Credit; Executive Producer, Innotribe Startup Challenge for SWIFT
Peter Singer
Agnes Soucat
Director of the Human Development Department, African Development Bank
Andrew Taylor
Executive Vice President, Grand Challenges Canada
Ca Tran Ngoc
Director of Secretariat, National Council for S&T Policy (Advisory body to the Prime Minister) and Assistant to the S&T Minister, and Deputy Director, National Institute for S&T Policy and Strategy Studies (NISTPASS)
Vivek Wadhwa
Vice President of Academics and Innovation, Singularity University
Phil Wickham
CEO, Society of Kauffman Fellows