Next Pardee House Seminar on Technology and Development

The next Pardee House Seminar will be held on Monday, November 3, 2008 at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA), on “Future Challenges: Technology and Development.”

The lunch seminar will feature Ahmed Hashmi (Vice President, Group Research and Technology, BP, UK), Prof. Dilip Mookherjee (Department of Economics, Boston University), and Dr. Ashley Stevens (Executive Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Boston University), who will discuss the question of whether and how technology can influence international development, and especially for the poorest communities and countries.

This seminar series focuses on a variety of interdisciplinary issues and invites experts from different disciplines to discuss the long-range challenges and trends in that particular issue.

Lunch will be available from 11.30am, and the seminar itself will start at noon. Please RSVP to pardee@bu.edu by Wednesday, October 29, 2008.