Symposium on Innovation and Inclusive Growth 20-21 March 2014 Biographies 1 SYMPOSIUM ON INNOVATION AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH March 20th-21st, 2014 Paris, France Biographies Dr. Natalia Agapitova - Coordinator for the Development Marketplace Program, World Bank. Dr. Natalia Agapitova is the Coordinator for the Development Marketplace Program at the World Bank. She has worked extensively with operational and analytical aspects of innovation and social entrepreneurship since 1997, including twelve years at the World Bank. During her work at the World Bank, Natalia has played a key role in advising countries in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, South America and South Asia on how to build science, technology and innovation capacity. Natalia also worked on a broad range of issues related to capacity development and results agenda, and is one of the main authors of the Capacity Development and Results Framework that is used by World Bank teams and clients for design and M&E of capacity development programs. Natalia has recently joined the new Innovation Department at WBI as coordinator of the Innovation Policy Program. She has published numerous papers on economic development. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Poitiers. Dr. Eduardo Bitran – Professor of Science and Engineering, University Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile. Dr. Eduardo Bitran currently serves as Director of Development at the Faculty of Engineering and Science at the University Adolfo Ibáñez. In addition to his role as professor at the University Adolfo Ibáñez, Bitran performs consulting work for the World Bank, the Inter- American Development Bank, the IMF and OECD Dialogue on Growth as well as innovation policy issues, regulation, finance and private investment infrastructure. Between 2006 and 2008 he was Minister of Public Works of Chile. Previously, he was CEO of Fundación Chile. Upon his job as Secretary of State, the then President Michelle Bachelet appointed him Chairman of the National Innovation Council of Chile. Bitran is also the principal investigator for Infrascope (Economist Intelligence Unit's index of private investment in infrastructure in Latin America). He has served on the board of numerous public and private companies. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University. Symposium on Innovation and Inclusive Growth 20-21 March 2014 Biographies 2 Mr William Danvers – Deputy-Secretary General, OECD. Mr William Danvers is the Deputy-Secretary General at the OECD. In addition to focusing on the OECD’s regional initiatives in Southeast Asia, the MENA region, Latin America and Africa, he oversees the organisation's global relations portfolio, including outreach and the accession processes of candidate countries. He also works on further developing OECD work on investment, competition and the fight against corruption; on innovation; science and technology; corporate affairs, and private sector development; as well as following the standard setting activities linked to these themes. An adjunct professor at the Elliot School at George Washington University, Danvers has also written a number of articles on national security issues. Dr. Luiz de Mello – Deputy Chief of Staff of the Secretary General, OECD. Dr. Luiz de Mello took up his functions as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Secretary- General of the OECD on December 15, 2011. Previous to his current position, he acted as Economic Counsellor to the Chief Economist of the OECD. In that role, he advised and supported the Chief Economist and contributed to the OECD involvement in the G20 process. Dr. de Mello joined the Economics Department of the OECD in 2003, working initially in multilateral surveillance activities related to the OECD Economic Outlook. He then worked as Head of Desk responsible for bilateral surveillance activities with Brazil, Chile and subsequently Indonesia. Prior to joining the OECD, Dr. de Mello worked in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund, where he was involved in different projects in the areas of public finances, as well as program monitoring and country surveillance, with an emphasis on emerging-market and transition economies in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Dr. de Mello holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kent. Dr. Alfonso Echazarra – Analyst at the Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD. Alfonso Echazarra is an Analyst in the Directorate for Education and Skills at OECD. He currently works on the Innovation Strategy for Education and Training project at CERI. Prior to joining the OECD, Alfonso worked as a research associate at the Carlos III – Juan March Institute in a project on welfare regimes and migration and at IESE Business School in a project on healthcare innovation. Outside of education inequalities, his research interests include deviant behaviour, public opinion, residential segregation and social capital. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Statistics from the University of Manchester. Symposium on Innovation and Inclusive Growth 20-21 March 2014 Biographies 3 Dr. Xiaolan Fu – Director of the Technology and Management for Development Centre, University of Oxford. Dr. Xiaolan Fu is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management for Development Centre. Her research interests include innovation, technology and industrialisation; trade, foreign direct investment and economic development; emerging Asian economies; innovation and productivity in UK/US. She is Editor-in- Chief of Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Oxford Development Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Technology Management, and four other international journals. She received the European Commission Gate2Growth 2005 'European Best Paper' Award. She has conducted consultancy research for UNDESA, UNCTAD, UNIDO, ILO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, UKTI and the Chinese government. Dr. Fu serves on the Advisory Expert Group of the OECD Global Investment Forum and the DFID/ESRC Economic Growth Directorate (DEGP). She is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and University of Tsinghua, and a Visiting Professor at Fudan University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. As a leading China expert, she has participated in various interviews and panel discussions at main stream media including BBC Newsnight, BBC News, BBC Radio 2, Sky News, Arise News, People's Daily, China Daily and China Radio International. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Lancaster University. Mr Carlos Guaipatin – Senior Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank. Carlos Guaipatin is a Senior Specialist in the Competitiveness and Innovation Division in the Inter-American Development Bank. He has over 10 years of experience in the field of private sector development and has worked for the Inter-American Development Bank since 2007. Carlos has worked as a consultant for IFC, GAF, GTZ, ECLAC, OAS, IDB and German Development Institute. His work includes projects for a variety of fields: promoting clusters and value chains, small and medium enterprise, technology and innovation, entrepreneurship and local economic development. He has worked in virtually every country in Latin America and in Southeast Europe. Additionally, Carlos has been published in several journals and has presented in over 20 countries in Latin America, as well as in Europe and America. Dr. Dominique Guellec – Head of the Country Studies and Outlook (CSO) Division, Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry OECD. Dominique Guellec is Head of the OECD’s Country Studies and Outlook (CSO) Division, created on April 12, 2010. The CSO is responsible for coordinating the analysis of country-specific information on member and non-member countries across the directorate. This notably includes the OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy, the STI Outlook, the web-based Innovation Policy Platform (IPP) and work relating to innovation for development. Mr Guellec joined the OECD in 1995 and has worked in the Statistics Directorate and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry on statistics and quantitative economic analysis of research and development, innovation and growth. From 2004-2005, Mr Guellec was Chief Economist of the European Patent Office (Munich). Mr Guellec has authored several books and many articles on patents, innovation, and economic growth. Before joining the OECD, Mr Guellec worked at INSEE (Paris), where he was in charge successively of short-term analysis and forecast on external trade, and of surveys and analysis of innovation and growth. Symposium on Innovation and Inclusive Growth 20-21 March 2014 Biographies 4 Dr. Jeremy Howells – Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Southampton. Dr. Jeremy Howells is Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Southampton. He has written, co-authored, and edited nine books on research and innovation. His research interests cover innovation, knowledge exchange, technology transfer and R&D Management and he has published over two hundred papers and reports on R&D, innovation and technology transfer. In addition to the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC; together with the LINK program), his other main research projects have been funded by the OECD, the European Science Foundation, the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation, DG Enterprise and DG Reggio), UNCTAD and UNIDO. He has also worked on more specific management and development