Joel Kurtzman
Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Executive Director, SAVE
Joel Kurtzman is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and Executive Director of SAVE (the Strategic Action Volunteer Effort). Previously he was global lead partner for thought leadership and innovation at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has also served as executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, a member of the editorial board of Harvard Business School Publishing, a business editor and columnist at The New York Times and founding editor of Strategy+Business. Kurtzman began his career as an international economist at the United Nations, where he was deputy director of the U.N.'s Project on the Future. While at the U.N., he participated in negotiations between India and Union Carbide over the Bhopal disaster. For these efforts, he was awarded India's Indira Gandhi Prize. Kurtzman is the author of 20 books and hundreds of articles. He received a master's degree from the University of Houston and was the recipient of a Moody Foundation Fellowship.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
