Professor Calestous Juma

Harvard University Version

Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He is a Kenyan national and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi, and he also served as Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He has been elected to several scientific academies including the Royal Society of London, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the US National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He has won several international awards for his work on sustainable development. He holds a PhD in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and environment. He teaches courses in technological innovation and developmental policy. He is lead author of Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development and editor of Going for Growth: Science and Innovation in Africa. He is editor of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Technology and Globalisation and International Journal of Biotechnology. He is currently working on a book on resistance to new technologies.

Wikipedia Version

Calestous Juma (born 9 June 1953 at Port Victoria, western Kenya) is an internationally recognized authority in the application of science and technology to sustainable development worldwide. He is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is also Visiting Professor at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies in Yokohama, Japan.

In recognition of his work, Juma has been elected to the Royal Society of London, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), the World Academy of Art and Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences.

Juma grew up on the Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria where he obtained early education. He first worked as an elementary school teacher before becoming Africa's first science and environment journalist at Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper. Juma later joined the Nairobi-based Environment Liaison Centre International (ELCI) as a founder and editor of trilingual quarterly magazine, Ecoforum. He later received an MSc in Science, Technology and Industrialization and a DPhil in Science and Technology Policy from the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. He has written widely on science, technology and sustainable development.