The World Economic Forum (WEF) has convened a group of 35 international experts to explore the changes that are anticipated at the global level during the coming decades, and to examine how to cope with them. Each of the members of the expert group prepared
The twentieth session of the Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP 20) took place in Lima at the beginning of December 2014, as part of the preparatory process for the international treaty on the subject that will be agreed in Paris at the end
My intervention in the 2013 Aula Magna event at the Catholic University in Peru (PUCP) was published at the end of 2014. It examines the role of the university in scientific and technological development, and the Spanish version can be found here.
Together with Mario Bazan we published a chapter on the book on inclusive innovation edited by Gabriela Dutrenit and Judith Sutz. This chapter examines innovation and social inclusion policies in Perú and is available here . Mario Bazan and other colleagues at FORO Nacional Internacional
In November 2014 I participated in the OEI conference in Buenos Aires. The session I was involved in focused on science and technology policies, and was chaired by Mario Albornoz, the Director of the Iberoamerican Network of Science and Technology Indicators (RICyT), with the participation
In November 2014 I attended the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the IID in London. I made a presentation on the perspectives of Latin American with regards to climate change, which is available here, and also contributed to the IIED blog on COP20
At the end of October 2014 I participated in the annual conference of the Chamber of Commerce and Production of La Libertad, a region in the Northern coast of Peru. I covered the theme of innovation and economic development in Peru. A copy of my
In June 2014 I took part in the Montevideo, Uruguay, gathering of cooperation agencies from Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal. The objective was to examine current cooperation trends and prospects. My presentation (in Spanish) is available here , the conclusions of the event can
In June-July 2014 the SciDev portal published two interviews I gave on science, technology and development. The first is available here and focused on the need to have science and technology capabilities to understand the global changes under way at present, and to take advantage
The second edition of my book Ciencia, Tecnología, Innovación. Políticas para América Latina (Science, Technology, Innovation. Policies for Latin America) was published by the Fondo de Cultura Economica in December 2013. Following presentations of the first edition in Lima, Bogota, Mexico City, San José, Buenos