Academic Participants

The Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development achieves it work jointly with first-rate institutions and intellectuals.

INCAE

INCAE has forty years working in the region and in other Latin American countries, all this work has made the institute a fundamental support for The Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development through its elite faculty, who constantly participate in the Center's activities.
INCAE relies on a body of first-rate professors who work full-time at the institution. Some 95% of the classes are taught by professors with doctoral degrees from universities like: Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, etc. INCAE professors constantly conduct research and serve as consultants, as such, making a major impact in the Latin American environment.http://www.incae.edu/

Harvard

Harvard University, through the Center for International Development (CID), formerly known a Harvard's Institute for International Development (HIID), works together with CLACDS to put Central America at the vanguard of sustainable development and competitiveness.- The CID is a multi-disciplinary center of Harvard University for coordination the assistance in development and research in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. http://www.cid.harvard.edu/

In his standing as member of the Steering Committee, Michael E. Porter is C. Roland Christensen Professor at Harvard University's Business School. His publications, including The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990), have become bestsellers and are the fundamental texts used by companies and business schools around the world. Dr. Michael E. Porter has been a constant contributor, as much for the Central American Agenda for Competitiveness for the 21st Century, as well as other projects. He has played a protagonist role in the creation and understanding of the term competitiveness, the place it occupies in Central America in the context of global competitiveness, and in building a network of support among governments and leaders of the Central American countries. http://www.isc.hbs.edu/

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on a group of poverty alleviation initiatives called the Millennium Development Goals. Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development. He is author or co-author of more than two hundred scholarly articles, and has written or edited many books. http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/about/director/

MIT

The Media Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was created by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte. Operations began in 1985 and among its most important achievements is the creation of digital video and multimedia. It continues to work on revolutionary projects focusing on the study, invention and creation of digital technologies to allow people to think, express themselves communicate their ideas and explore new science frontiers. The Media Laboratory actively works with the Center. http://www.media.mit.edu/

Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland is a pioneer in wearable computers, health systems, smart environments, and technology for developing countries. He is one of the most-cited computer scientists in the world.

He is the founding director of the Media Lab Asia, and is a co-founder of the Center for Future Health, the Wearable Computing research community, and the international Digital Nations Consortium. He was formerly the Academic Head of the MIT Media Laboratory, and is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. He was chosen by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape the next century. http://www.media.mit.edu/~pentland

Mitchel Resnick, direct the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the Media Laboratory at MIT. In his research, he develop new technologies to help people (particularly children) learn new things in new ways. His research interests include: Learning through Designing and Bridging the Digital Divide were Prof. Resnick co-founded the Computer Clubhouse project, a network of after-school learning centers where youth from under-served communities work together on projects based on their own interests, learning to express themselves with new technologies. He also co-PI for the Media Lab's Digital Nations consortium, which aims to help people around the world address major social challenges (such as education, health care, and community development) through innovative design and use of new technologies. http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/

ALUDES

The Latin and Ibero-American Academy of Universities for Sustainable Development was founded in March 2002.
ALUDES is a bridge to harness the relationship and academic exchange among the Latin American and European universities. Their objective is to cement the bases of a solid relationship among the university institutions of the continent. Its principal objective is to strengthen the potential for research, systematization and dissemination of the criteria for conservation and the development of man. http://www.aludes.org/