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Media Lab. Formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and
Planning at MIT, he also directs the Media Lab’s Smart Cities
research group, and serves as architectural adviser to the President of
MIT. Mitchell is currently chair of The National Academies
Committee on Information Technology and Creativity.
Erkki Liikanen born in Mikkeli, Finland in 1950. Has a Master in
political and economical sciences by the University of Helsinki. Since
July 2004 he is Governor of the Bank of Finland. Between 1999 and
2004 he was a member of the European Commission for Enterprises
and Information Society.
Pekka Himanen divides his time between the Helsinki Institute for
Information Society and the University of California at Berkeley. He
has also acted as an advisor on the information society to the Finnish
President, Government and Parliament. His books on the network
society have been published in twenty languages. They include The
Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age (2001) and (with
Manuel Castells) The Information Society and the Welfare State: The
Finnish Model (2001).
Carlos Alvarez is Secretary of State for the Economy in the Chilean
Government. Born in Punta Arenas, in 1962. He is an civil engineer
and has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University. He
taught economy at the Universidad de Chile between 1989 and 1993.
Maria João Rodrigues is a Full Professor of Economics at the University
of Lisbon, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da
Empresa (ISCTE), University of Lisbon. Other current activities are:
President of the European Commission’s Advisory Group for Social
Sciences (6th Framework Programme of R&D); Special Adviser to the
Luxembourg Presidency of the European Union, in charge of the
Mid-term Review of the Lisbon Strategy; Member of the Board of the
European Policy Centre Council, Brussels;Member of the Board of
“Notre Europe,” Paris. recent activities developed in the last five years include
being a Member of the Group of Economic Analysis supporting
the President of the European Commission (2003-2004); Member of the
High Level Group on the Future of European Social Policies, European
Union (2003-2004); Member of the High Level Group on Information
Society, European Union (2003-2004); Member of the European
Employment Task Force, European Union (2003); General rapporteur
for the Global Employment Forum, ILO, United Nations (2001); Member
of OECD network of government long-term strategists (2000).