| Professor Lynn Krieger Mytelka is the former Director of UNU-INTECH (July 2000 to December 2004). Between 1996 and 1999, she worked with UNCTAD, Geneva, as Director of the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development (DITE. Prior to this she taught at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where she was Professor, Faculty of Management and Public Policy from 1982 and subsequently a Distinguished Research Professor. She holds an Honorary Professorship and Chair in Development Economics at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands until 2010. Professor Mytelka's research covers a broad range of issues in development, science and technology, including innovation systems,clustering, technological upgrading in traditional industries, North-South co-operation, biotechnology, strategic partnerships, multinational corporations and competitiveness.Currently she is on the Executive Committee of the Global Energy Assessment, working on the innovation chapter and responsible for the chapter on Capacities and Capacity Development for Energy Transitions. She has undertaken numerous research and capacity building projects and consultancies for various governments and international agencies, including the EU, OECD, UNDP, UNCTAD, UNIDO, IDRC and the World Bank. She serves on a number of Advisory and editorial Boards. Among her recent publications are Making Choices About Hydrogen: Transport Issues for Developing Countries (edited with Grant Boyle) Tokyo: UNU Press, Ottawa:IDRC Press, 2008 and Innovation and Economic Development (ed<span style="font-style: italic;"></span>.) The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 2007.<br/> |
