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Thursday, 25 March 2004
Knowledge for Development: What Have We Learned? What Next?
Robert Frosch, Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development
11:45 am - 2:00 pm, Perkins Room (E-415), 4th Floor, Eliot Building, KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served

Biography:

Robert A. Frosch is a theoretical physicist by education (AB, Columbia College, '47 and PhD, Columbia University, '52). He conducted research in ocean acoustics at Columbia and later served as Director for Nuclear Test Detection, and Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the Department of Defense, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development (ASNR&D), Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Associate Director for Applied Oceanography of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Administrator of NASA, President of the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES), and Vice President of General Motors Corporation (GM) in 1993 before joining the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and a fellow or member of a number of professional societies.

Presentation slides:

Frosch, Robert. "Knowledge for Development: What Have We Learned? What Next?" Presentation slides from Knowledge for Development Seminar, 25 March 2004, Center for International Development, Harvard University.