Investments in Science and Technology

In an effort to invest Co-Responsibly, we appreciate the importance of counting with a solid base of information for taking decisions. Thus, we rely on the extense background of government officials and their peers in international organizations (such as IDB, NSF, UN, and the OECD Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry). Some key players in these organizations are:

• Daniel Malkin, who joined the Inter-American Development Bank in September 2005 as Deputy manager of the newly created sub-Department of Education, Science and Technology. In the IDB, his main responsibilities are to mainstream human capital development and innovation policies as key components of national development agenda and IDB financial and technical assistance activities. He is in charge of overseeing technical support for operations in the S&T, ICT and Education areas, to ensure that these operations contribute to the development of best practice policies and programmes aiming at fostering the innovation performance, competitiveness and sustainable growth in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
  
  Prior to joining the IDB, Daniel Malkin headed the Science and Technology Policy Division of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI). His activities focused on the assessment of OECD Member countries’ S&T and innovation policies and public support to R&D; the performance and governance of Science and Innovation systems; the development and mobility of human resources in S&T; and, more generally, the contribution of science and technology to productivity and economic growth. This work lead to the formulation of recommendations to high level officials in charge of Science and Technology in OECD countries. 
  

• Mr. Mongi Hamdi, Chief Science and Technology Section Policy and Capacity Building Branch , Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – UNCTAD (www.unctad.org)

• Barbados's NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NCST)

• Claudio de Moura Castro is the president of the Advisory Council of Faculdade Pitágoras. He has a B.A. in economics from the University of Minas Gerais, an M.A. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University. He also completed one year of doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on labor markets, social and economic aspects of education, vocational training and science and technology policies, and he has published over thirty books and around three hundred scholarly articles on these topics. He has taught at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the Vargas Foundation, the University of Chicago, the University of Brasilia, the University of Geneva, and the University of Burgundy, Dijon. He also served as technical coordinator of the ECIEL research project on education (comprising ten Latin American countries). He was the director of CAPES (Brazilian Agency for Postgraduate Education), and he has also served as the executive secretary of CNRH (the Brazilian social policy institute of the Planning Secretariat). From 1986 and 1992, he was the chief of the Training Policies Branch of the International Labour Office (Geneva). He has also worked in a Technical Division of the World Bank as senior human resource economist and as division chief of the Social Programs Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Later he served as the chief educational advisor of the IDB.

Additional information on S&T investment: OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006

Recent participation in international events:

• 2007, Paris
• 2007, Nara Japan
• 2007, Germany
• 2006, Honk Kong
• Information Society
• 2006 France