Susan Hockfield
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Susan Hockfield has been President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2004. Under her leadership, MIT has built on its traditional strengths in science, engineering, architecture, management and economics to advance the frontiers of energy research and pioneer crucial advances at the intersection of the life sciences, the physical sciences and engineering. The first life scientist to lead MIT, she is also a professor of neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Previously she was provost at Yale University, where she had taught since 1985; she also served as dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is a director of the General Electric Company and the World Economic Forum Foundation; a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
