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Food for Thought with Geneviève Féraud

This series of student-focused events features speakers from a variety of disciplines discussing topics related to global development.

Event Details:

Wednesday, April 21, 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT

Location

Virtual Event

This event is open to:

Students

The King Center's "Lunch & Learn" events are student-focused talks that feature speakers from a variety of disciplines to discuss topics related to global poverty and development. Please view the slides that were presented. 

About the speaker:

geneviève féraud

Dr. Geneviève Féraud is the head of the Knowledge Development Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Switzerland. She directs extensive research and capacity-building programmes aimed at supporting developing countries, with the current focus on mitigating the impact of the pandemic on their economies

Dr. Féraud joined the United Nations in 2003 and her previous positions were as head of the Information and Communication Technologies and E-Business Branch, and deputy director of programmes at the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) in Torino, Italy. She started her career in academia and consulting and held several managerial positions with large, international, private companies in the field of information systems, including with IBM. After receiving her PhD in business strategy and information systems from the University of Aix-Marseille, France, Dr. Féraud conducted research and taught at several European and American universities and schools, including at Harvard Business School, and developed executive education programs with large-size international companies in the fields of knowledge development, technology, business strategy and organizational behavior.  

Dr. Féraud was a visiting scholar at the Stanford King Center on Global Development from 2018-2019 where she continued to develop her research on capacity-building and educational technology for development, and directed several international research projects in collaboration with EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne or the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).

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