Fred Moavenzadeh, James Mason Crafts Professor of Engineering, is Director of the Technology and Development Program. His current interests include technology and development with a focus on formulation of technological policies for socioeconomic development. He is particularly interested in institutional structures required to develop a viable science and technology infrastructure that could serve the human resource development strategy of newly industrialized nations.

As director of TDP since 1973, Professor Moavenzadeh has been involved in a variety of interdisciplinary research and capacity building activities throughout Southeast Asia, East Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East.

Professor Moavenzadeh has conducted and supervised major research activities and served as a private consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and to various United Nations agencies. He has conducted studies on energy pricing policy and the effects of energy price change on the economy of four Latin American countries, for organizations such as the Organizacion Latinoamerica de Energia (OLADE).

Nazli Choucri, TDP Associate Director, is a Professor of Political Science. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary analysis of globalization and international politics with an emphasis on the potential for conflict at national, regional, and global levels. She has worked on problems related to the world oil market, energy and development, population dynamics and technology transfer. Professor Choucri is the Director of MIT's Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), a multi-lingual web-based knowledge networking system focusing on sustainability challenges.

Dr. Choucri heads the Middle East Program, an interdepartmental program of graduate study on technology, development, and policy. She is the Founding Editor of the MIT Press Series on Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation. Professor Choucri has served as advisor to numerous international organizations and national agencies in over 25 countries.

Patricia Vargas, Executive Director, TDP
Steven Griffiths, Executive Director, MIT/Abu Dhabi Program
Susan C. Cass, Communications Officer
Danielle Severino Atwell, Administrative Assistant
Jennifer Peterson, Administrative Assistant

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