MOT-UNIDO Conference Leadership

The Bridging the Divide 2007 Conference and associated fellowships are made possible through the close cooperation of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Management of Technology Program (MOT). This is the first partnership of its kind in North America.

UNIDO is one of the United Nations’ largest specialized agencies. Within the United Nations organization, UNIDO has responsibility for promoting industrialization throughout the developing world in cooperation with its 170 member states. UNIDO is headquartered in Vienna, and has field offices in 35 countries.

The UC Berkeley conference organizer is the Management of Technology Program, UC Berkeley’s joint graduate program of the Haas School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information.

Bridging the Divide 2007 would not be possible without the thoughtful help and guidance from the Faculty Advisory Board, consisting of some of the world's leading scholars on our topics.

Andrew M. Isaacs is Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Management of Technology (MOT) Program. He is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and scientist, and a popular teacher in the engineering and MBA programs at the University of California, Berkeley. MOT is a graduate-level program at UC Berkeley offering 40 courses in management and high technology plus a wide range of programs that bring top notch high tech companies to UC Berkeley. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, Isaacs was President of California Technology International, Inc. Isaacs has also held executive positions at several public and private companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to coming to Silicon Valley, he was Senior Scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.

Kristiana Raube, PhD is an Adjunct Professor at the Haas School of Business and the Executive Director of the Graduate Program in Health Management at the University of California Berkeley, a program that prepares students for leadership roles in the health services and health technology industries. She is also the Research Director of the “Bridging the Divide” program at UC Berkeley which sponsors student teams to conduct research on technology in the developing world. Dr. Raube has worked both in the US and around the world to increase health management capacity through executive education and program development. For example, she has consulted and taught at universities in Bucharest Romania and in South China, at the Aravind Eye Institute in South India, and the Centers for Disease Control in Vietnam. In addition, Dr. Raube conducts research focusing on the delivery and financing of health services. She has evaluated a large number of health programs, including ones focused on physician payment, quality of care, access to care, Medicaid managed care, infant mortality, prenatal care, and community-based health care.

Before coming to UC Berkeley in 1999, Dr. Raube was at the University of Chicago where she was Acting Director of the Center for Health Administration Studies, Associate Director of the Chicago Health Policy Council, and Research Associate (Associate Professor) in the Graduate Program of Health Administration and Policy. Dr. Raube received her doctorate in public policy from the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, her masters in public health from UCLA, and her bachelors of arts degree in biology from the University of Colorado.