UBC Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. As a young MD working in Mozambique, he discovered a
formerly unrecognized paralytic disease induced by hunger and malnutrition. His 20 years of global health research concerned the nature of links between economy and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He has been an adviser to WHO and UNICEF, co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden, and started new courses and published a textbook
on Global Health. He is a member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Science and of the Global Agenda Network of the World
Economic Forum in Switzerland. Rosling co-founded Gapminder Foundation with son and daughter-in-law to promote a fact-based worldview by converting statistics into interactive and enjoyable animations.
His award-winning lectures on global trends have been labeled "humorous, yet deadly serious."
Keynote Speaker: Shauna Sylvester
Shauna Sylvester is a Fellow at the Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and the Director of Canada's World - a national citizens' dialogue on Canadian international policy. In May 2010, Shauna will launch a new initiative called Carbon Talks which will focus on the role of business in increasing Canada's global competitiveness by shifting to a low carbon economy. Shauna has written and edited several publications related to foreign policy, social and environmental issues and has provided policy advice to governments and foundations on subjects as varied as peacebuilding, human rights, media, forestry and AIDS.
Prior to developing Canada's World, Shauna co-founded and served as the first Executive Director of IMPACS - the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, a charitable organization devoted to strengthening democracy by increasing the voice and profile of civil society and advancing media freedom internationally. Shauna was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in the Globe and Mail after receiving a similar award from Business in Vancouver Magazine.
Schedule of Events
The theme of the conference is "Local Action to Global Impact: Vision, Action, Voice". There will be 4 "streams" of workshops and panels, representing the 4 core values of EWB: Capacity Building, Advocacy, Engineers Serving Global Society, and Connecting to Africa.
Click on the links below to find out more about each session!
Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. As a young MD working in Mozambique, he discovered a
formerly unrecognized paralytic disease induced by hunger and malnutrition. His 20 years of global health research concerned the nature of links between economy and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Shauna Sylvester is a Fellow at the Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and the Director of Canada's World - a national citizens' dialogue on Canadian international policy. In May 2010, Shauna will launch a new initiative called Carbon Talks which will focus on the role of business in increasing Canada's global competitiveness by shifting to a low carbon economy. Shauna has written and edited several publications related to foreign policy, social and environmental issues and has provided policy advice to governments and foundations on subjects as varied as peacebuilding, human rights, media, forestry and AIDS.