Microbial Threats and Global Society | Computer Power and Engineering Research and Technological Innovation | Human Rights and Humanitarian Emergencies | Beyond Beijing: The Global Empowerment of Women | Darwinism and Artificial Intelligence | Transportation and the Environment: A Global Perspective | Genetic Engineering and Our Humanness | The Future of Telecommunications | Prospects for Democratic Reform in the Former Soviet Union | Implications of the Globalization of Financial Markets and Financial Institutions | Development Banks, Private Investment, and Poverty Reduction | Biotechnology and Animal Research | Art, Science and Technology: Concerning Our Reflection | The Future of Africa | Benefits of Space
Convened By:
- Stuart Levy
Director, Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Ruth Berkelman
Deputy Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
Topics:
- What will be the definition of a developed country in the next century vis a vis helath and economics?
- How will the world respond to a vancomycin-resistant E. Fiecium enterocci bacteria?
- What would constitute a cost-effective surveillance system and control mechanisms to contend with microbial threats?
Participants:
Christopher Foreman, Jr.
Government Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Author, Plagues, Products, and Politics: Emergent Public Health Hazards and National Policymaking
Laurie Garrett
Author, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance; Health and Science Writer, Newsday
Margaret Hamburg
Commissioner of Health, New York City
Joshua Lederberg
Professor and former President, Rockefeller University, Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Jonathan M. Mann
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, International AIDS Center; Harvard AIDS Institute
Chris Murray
Medical Economist; Harvard Center for Human Population; Adviser, Tubercleosis and AIDS, World Bank
Convened by:
- Gianni Astarita
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Material and Production Engineering, University of Naples, Italy
- Jerry Meldon
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Tufts University
Topics:
- The effect of the computer power revolution on the style of research and on the pace of technological innovation
- The competition between the electronic and the human brain
- The quantitative versus the qualitative power of computers
Participants:
Arup K. Chakraborty
Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California/Berkeley
Martin R. Feinberg
Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester
David W. Savage
Research and Engineering, Exxon Corporation
George Stephanopoulos
Porfessor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Convened by:
- Hurst Hannum
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- Jennifer Leaning
Editor, Medicine and Global Survival
- Susannah Sirkin
Physicians for Human Rights
- Landrum Bolling
Sevior Advisor, Conflict Management Group, Inc.
Topics:
- Role of humanitarian relief agencies in situations of rights abuse
- Impact on conflict of humanitarian agency presense and human rights groups monitoring
- Balance between desire for peace and desire for justice
Participants:
Adol Atwei
Director of Africa Division, Amnesty International USA
Tanya Baldwin
Amnesty International, United Nations Office
Joel Charney
Policy Director, Oxfam America
John Ebersol
Training Service, U.N Secretariat
Larry Garber
Senior Policy Advisor, USAID
Amb. Robert Gosende
Presidential Special Envoy to Somalia
Kevin Henry
Special Advisor for Operations and Strategy, CARE
Francois Jean
Advisor, President, Operations, Medcins sans Frontieres
Darren Kew
Program on Preventive Diplomacy, Council on Foreign Relations
Matt Lorin
National Security Council, Office of Morton Halperin
Gay McDougall
International Human Rights Law Group
Juan Mendez
Executive Counsel, former Executive Director Americas Watch Human Rights Watch
Andrew Natsios
Executive Director, WorldVision Relief and Development
Norah Niland
Executive Director, United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Organization
Diane Orentlicher
Professor of International Law, American University
Roy Williams
Director of Operations, International Rescue Committee
Convened by:
- Kristina Hare
EPIIC '87, Representative to U.N. Conference on Population and Development, Cairo
- Mark Munger
Planned Parenthood, Representative to U.N. Conference on Population and Development, Cairo
Topics:
- Population and Development Issues
- Reproductive Rights
- Media Images
- Human Rights
Participants:
Kathleen Cloud
Bunting Institute Fellow; Director, Graduate Interdisplinary Concentration in Gender Roles and International Development
Monica Das Gupta
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Population and Development, Harvard University School of Public Health
Rev. Carol A. Johnson
Founder, Harvard Aids Ministries, Harvard University Divinity School
Bill Ryerson
Population Communications International
Junko Shiota
Program Coordinator, Community Service Learning Program, Lincoln-Filene Center, Tufts University
Michela Walsh
President, Women's Asset Management
Melissa Wells
Special U.S. Envoy to the Sudan; Former U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique and Zaire
Convened by:
- Daniel C. Dennett
Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, Conciousness Explained
Topic:
Participants:
Rodney Brooks
Director, Mobile Robots, MIT
Murray Gell-Mann
Nobel Physicist; Co-Founder, Santa Fe Institute; Author, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and Complex
David Haig
Fellow, Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology
Danny Hills
Founder, Thinking Machines
Douglas Hofstadter
Cognitive Scientist; Pultitzer Prize-winning Author, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
John Holland
Associate Director, Logic of Computation Group, University of Michigan
Kevin Kelly
Executive Editor, Wired; Author, Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization
Patricia Maes
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, The Media Lab, MIT
Bruce Mazlish
Professor of History, MIT; Author, The Fourth Disconttinuity: The Co-evolution of Humans and Machines
Marvin Minsky
Japan Prize Recipient; Co-Founder, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT; Author, The Society of Mind
Hans Moravec
Director, Mobile Robot Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Seymour Papert
LEGO Professor of Learning Research, MIT; Co-Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Oliver Selfridge
Computer Scientist, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT; Creator, "Pandemonium" model
Convened by:
- William Moomaw
Director, Internatinal and Environment Resource Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Topics:
- Who and what do we have to move
- What technology will move them
- What strategies do we need to develop for substituting bits for atoms
- What is the impact of the dematerialization of transport
- What are the challenges for industrial and developing countries
Participants:
Daniel Brand
Founder, Charles River Associates (Mag Lev-public transport policy)
Richard Daly
Director, Taxi 2000
Ronald Goldner
Department of Engineering, Tufts University
Jack Goldstone
Director, Center for Comparative Research in History, Society, and Culture, University of California/Davis; Participant, Project on Environment Scarcities, State Capacities, and Civil Violence, AAAS
Amory Lovins
Ecologist; Co-Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute; MacArthur Fellow
Jim MacKenzie
World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.; Author, Keys To The Car, Car Trouble
Chou Ming
Director, Green China
Vaclav Smil
Ecologist; Author, China's Environment Crisis; Participant, Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacities, and Civil Violence, AAAS
Convened by:
- Sheldon Krimsky
Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Tufts University; Author, Biotechnics and Society
Topics:
- Ethical and social issues of human germ-line gene manipulation
- When is it justified?
- Can it be regulated?
- What is the public good?
Participants:
Adrienne Asch
Henry R. Luce Professor in Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction, Wellesley College
Karl Ebert
Professor, Animal and Cellular Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
Ruth Hubbard
Professor of Biology Emerita, Harvard University; Author, The Politics of Women's Biology; Co-Authour, Exploding the Gene Myth
Stuart Newman
New York State Medical School
Pilar Ossario
Biologist and Lawyer, University of California/Berkeley
Henri Termeer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Genzyme Corporation
Dr. Nelson Wivel
Director, Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, National Institutes of Health
Convened by:
- Derek Leebaert
Professor of Management of Technology, Graduate School of Business, Georgetown University; Editor, Technology 2001: The Future of Software
Topics:
- Media in the year 2000
- Consequences for industries and consumers
- How will the information highway develop?
- What will be the role of government?
- What is the impact on privacy?
- What are the social implications?
Participants:
Jeffrey Bellin
Director, Bell Atlantic Video
David Bennahum
Contributing Editor, Lingua Franca; Author, Coming of Age in Cyberspace (forthcoming)
Gustave Essig
Chief Executive Officer, UniNet Communications
Howard H. Frederick
Professor, Global Communications, Emerson College; Founder PeaceNet
Denos Gazis
Director, Edward R. Murrow Center, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Russ Neuman
Director, Edward R. Murrow Center, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Eli Noam
Director, Institute of Telecommunications, Columbia University
Majid Tehranian
Fellow, Edward R. Murrow Center, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Senior Fellow, Center for the World Religion; Program on Information Resource Policy, Harvard University
Coralee Whitcomb
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; Administrator, Vitual Reality Project
Dale Williams
Executive Director, National Information Infrastructure Testbed
Convened by:
- Fiona Hill
Project Director, Ethnic Conflict Project, Strengthening Democracy Institutions Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Hannes Adomeit
Professor of International Politics, Director, Program on Russia, East/Central Europe and Central Asia, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Topic:
- The political, economic, ethnic, and ecological tensions within the FSU and their impact on the future course of Russia and the former Soviet republics
Participants:
Evgenai Albats
Investigative Journalist, Isvestia
Elizabeth Bernstein
Associate Director, Russian Research Center, Harvard University
Sergei Girgoriev
Former Press Spokesman, Mikhail Gorbachev
Mark Kramer
Brown University
Kostiantyn Morozov
Former Minister of Defense, the Ukraine
Carol Savitch
Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University
Sarah Terry
Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University
Convened by:
- Jack Blum
Lobel, Novins, Lamont & Flug; Former Investigator, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Director, investigations into B.C.C.I., Lockheed, ITT/Allende
Topics:
- History of internationalization
- Offshore banking
- Regulation
- International bankruptcy
- International Criminal Procecution
Participants:
Stuart R. Allen
Senior Associate, Lindquist, Avey, MacDonald, Baskerville, Inc., Forensic Financial Investigations; Former Lead Investigator of Offshore Fraud, SEC
Alan Block
Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University; Author, Masters of Paradise
Tom Naylor
Professor of Economics, McGill University; Author, Hot Money and the Politics of Debt
Edward Nell
Chairman, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research
Ira Silverman
Senior Producer, NBC News; Peabody Award Recipient for his reporting on B.C.C.I.
Cheryl Smith
Vice President, U.S. Trust, Boston
Convened by:
- Nancy Alexander
Manager, International Financial Institutions Accountability Project, Bread for the World
Topics:
- How to best evaluate efforts of multilateral development banks to ensure best use of private investment
- Relationship between market forces and poverty alleviation
- What kind of investment regimes can successfully reduce poverty?
Participants:
Kevin Baumert
University of Notre Dame
David Beckmann
President, Bread for the World
Barbara Bramble
World Wildlife Federation
Tom Coleman
Former Vice President and Director, Economic Analysis and Planning, Chicago Board of Trade
Mark Collins
Former U.S. Executive and Alternate Executive Director, Trinity International Partners
Hilary French
WorldWatch Institute
Neva Goodwin
Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
Denis Goulet
O'Neil Chair, Education for Justice, University of Notre Dame
Jo Marie Griesgraber
Rethinking Bretton Woods Project, Center for Concern, Washington, DC
Lisa Jordan
Both Ends, Amsterdam
Celestin Monga
Research Fellow, Sloan School, MIT
Seamus O'Cleireacain
Ford Foundation
Delwin Roy
President, Hitachi Foundation
Ismail Serageldin
Vice President, Environmentally Sustainable Development, World Bank
Paul Taylor
Raymond Vernon
J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Michaela Walsh
President, Women's Asset Management
Rob Wright
International Development Business Consultants
Convened by:
- Franklin M. Loew
Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
- Andrew N. Rowan
School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
Topics:
- Animal research
- Animal biotechnology
- Farm animal welfare
- Gender factors and animal issues
Participants:
Henry Spira
Animal Activist
Harriet Ritvo
Historian, MIT
Convened by:
- Noah Riskin
Research Fellow, Center for Advanced and Visual Studies, MIT
Topics:
- Future of light-based technologies
- The potential and dangers of global interconnectedness
- Use and exploration of light in art and contemporary physical theory
- The linkages between light and human consciousness
Participants:
Lowry Burgess
Artist, Carnegie Mellon University
Madeline Caviness
Professor of Art History, Mary Richardson University Professor, Tufts University
Tim Fohl
President, Tech Integrated Group, Inc.; Former Director of Engineering, Sylvania
Lynn Holden
Egyptologist and Cultural Historian
Marie Mathieu
Holographer, Montreal
Seth Riskin
Research Fellow, Center for Advanced and Visual Studies, MIT
Convened by:
- Michael Chege
Visiting Scholar, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Former Director, Institute for International Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya; Former Program Officer, Governance and International Affairs, Eastern and Southern Africa, Ford Foundation
Topic:
- What are the prospects for economic and political reform in Africa?
Participants:
Seung Hong Choi
President, World Resource Center; Former World Bank Resident Representative in Ghana and Uganda
John Cohen
Fellow, Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University
Maimouna Mills
Shorenstein Fellow, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Dipolelo Ngatane
Project Development Officer for Higher Education, USAID; Mason Fellow, John F, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Joseph Okpaku
President, Okpaku Communications; Publisher, Third Press Publications; Advisory Board, UNDP's African Futures Project
Pearl Robinson
Director, International Relations Program, Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
Michael Roemer
Economist, Harvard Institute for International Development
Ferdinand Swai
Director, Kibaha Education Center, Tanzania; Mason Fellow, Harvard University
Melissa Wells
Special U.S. Envoy to the Sudan; Former U.S. Ambassador, Mozambique and Zaire
Convened by:
- Peter Glaser
Vice President of Space Operations, Arthur D. Little, Inc.; Author, From the Moon to the Space Station and Beyond
- Eric Chaisson
Director, Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University; Author, The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics
Topics:
- Outer space activities
- Energy
- Space shuttles
- Living in space