STAS

1
STAS
Flattening the World The Role of Science and
Technology Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Dr. Nina V. Fedoroff Science and Technology
Adviser to the Secretary of State (STAS) and the
Administrator of USAID U. S. Department of
State Washington, DC
2
STAS
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
3
STAS
weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/ask/arch...
4
STAS
Photo Credit Tony Karumba /Agence France-Presse
- Getty Images
AIDS Orphans
lh3.google.com/_nZ6ODsczwkI/Ryln1I1tiVI/AAAAA...
5
STAS
Economist Dr. Paul Collier
Oxford University Press, 2007
6
STAS
7
STAS
bp3.blogger.com/./s320/Hubertproughing2.jpg
iStock photo 000003424427
8
STAS
http//image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images /Guardian/P
ix/pictures/2006/07/18/farm372.jpg
9
www.nndb.com/people/250/000024178/malthus.jpg
STAS
Thomas Malthus
10
STAS
Norman Borlaug Father of the Green Revolution
Normal and dwarf wheat varieties
11
STAS
http//www.sustainablescale.org/images/uploaded/Po
pulation/World20Population20Growth20to202050.J
PG
12
STAS
www.theoildrum.com/.../12/global_land_use2.jpg
13
STAS
http//keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/
biofuels.JPG
14
STAS
New York Times, 19 January 2008
15
STAS
http//images.google.com/imgres?imgurlhttp//lh3.
google.com/_2vGIpngAD6A/RyYrHUwLEYI/AAAAAAAAAcI/im
80wmhEezM/s800/Deforestation.jpg
16
STAS
Senators Nunn and Lugar, 1991
www.villagevoice.com/.../nunn-lugar-in-1991.jpg
17
STAS
Science for Security The Bio Example Dual
Use Science Collaboration Dual-Benefit
Dr. Jason Rao US State Department,
Spectrum of Bio-Risk

18
STAS
Bioindustry Initiative
19
Redirecting Iraqi weapons scientists
STAS
Dr. Alex Dehgan US State Department, STAS
Soviet-made Frog 7s
20
Supporting Redirection Creating a Virtual
Science Library for Iraq Dr. Susan Cumberledge,
DoD DTRA Dr. Ranjiv Khush, DoS/STAS Dr. Alex
Dehgan, DoS/NEADr. Barrie Ripin, DoS Dr. Ben
Perman, DoD Karan Nain, Pakistan
STAS

21
Science Diplomacy in the US Department of State
STAS
Conference on Women in Science Kuwait, 2007
22
STAS
Path of Totality
Libya, 29 March 2006
http//www.skynightly.com/images/solar-eclipse-mar
ch-2006-bg.jpg
http//www.mreclipse.com/SEphoto/TSE2006/image/T06
-309w.JPG
23
STAS
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at the World
Economic Forum 2008 in Davos (Photo credit Getty
Images, CNN, 25 January 2008)?
. a hint of what we can accomplish if people
who are experts on needs in the developing world
meet with scientists who understand what the
breakthroughs are, whether its in software or
drugs.
24
STAS
Characterization of contamination and human
health at former nuclear facilities in Iraq
Texas Tech University US Department of
State Government of Iraq
25
STAS

• Funding
• Texas Excellence Funds
• U.S. Department of State
• US CRDF
• IICSI

Iraq Ministry of Science and Technology Iraq
Ministry of Environment International Iraq
Center for Science and Industry (IICSI-State
Dept. Program)? International Radioecology Lab
(Ukraine)? International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA)? U.S. Civilian Research Development
Foundation (CRDF)? Royal Scientific Society
(Jordan)? University of Science Technology
(Jordan)?
Texas Tech Team
26
STAS
http//www7.nationalacademies.org/Jefferson/
27
STAS
Dr. Osama Awadelkarim Jefferson Fellow US
Department of State
28
STAS
Giving a seminar at Sudan University
29
STAS
Joseph Henry Press, 2004
30
Molecular insect resistance Bt cotton
STAS
31
Molecular insect resistance Bt corn
STAS
http//www.apsnet.org/online/feature/BtCorn/Images
/healthy20ear.JPG
32
www.gmo-compass.org/images/news/257_global06.gif
STAS
Millions of hectares planted in GMOs
33
STAS
cujtokyo.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/gmo-prot...
www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/france/phot..
http//www.bayweekly.com/year01/issue9_38/images9_
38/lead04protestors.jpg
34
STAS
Flattening the World The Role of Science and
Technology Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Dr. Nina V. Fedoroff Science and Technology
Adviser to the Secretary of State (STAS) and the
Administrator of USAID U. S. Department of
State Washington, DC