Nicholas Sullivan

Author, analyst, and consultant specializing in ICT, investment, and development

Nicholas P. Sullivan has written widely about technology and entrepreneurship, for the most part tracking the impact of the information communications technology revolution in the United States. For the past seven years he has focused on global development and investment, a path he followed after hosting international Internet conferences and radio programs for entrepreneurs while he served as editor in chief of Inc.com (a sister company to Inc. magazine). He was thereafter a United Nations’ “accredited business interlocutor to the International Financing for Development conference (Monterrey, Mexico, 2002), and participated in several follow-on dialogues at the United Nations. He is publisher of Innovations: Technology/Governance/Globalization (an MIT Press journal).

Sullivan is a graduate of Harvard University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. In 2007-08, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Feinstein Center at Tufts University, and a Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship.

Mois Cherem

Founder, Enova Mexico

Moís Cherem is a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School.
He’s the Chairman and General Counsel of Enova, a company devoted to leveraging the power of IT to create public value in Mexico.

Enova’s projects have included redesigning websites and online services for State Governments, creating online communications strategies, and most recently the design and implementation (with Fundación Proacceso ECO, A.C.) of computer centers in marginalized areas. This network of e-learning centers seeks to reach 1.2 million people living in poor urban areas by 2010. The first 10 centers will be inaugurated in April, 2009, with support from the State of Mexico’s Council of Science and Technology.

Mr. Cherem is also a member of the Board of Directors of Alianza para los Bosques, A.C., the Mexican chapter of the Rainforest Alliance. Prior to the Kennedy School, Mr. Cherem worked as a corporate and financial lawyer in White & Case, where he received the probono award in 2004. He obtained his law degree from the Instituto Tencológico de México in 2004 with a special mention.

Anita Goel

Chairman and CEO, Nanobiosym

Dr. Anita Goel founded Nanobiosym, Inc in 2004 as an R&D engine  that focuses on emerging technologies at the convergence of Physics, Medicine, and Nanotechnology. Dr. Goel’s pioneering contributions to this interface over the past 15 years have been recognized globally by several prestigious honors and awards. Her work on establishing the feasibility of the Gene-RADAR® technology platform at Nanobiosym® has been recognized by multiple rounds of funding from the United States Department of Defense agencies including Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and US Dept of Energy (DOE) and US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

Dr. Goel received her Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, her M.D. from Harvard-MIT Divison of Health Sciences and Technology, and her B.S. in Physics from Stanford University.

John Pierre Nshimyimana

Fellow, MIT Legatum Center


John Pierre Nshimyimana is a Fellow at the MIT Legatum Center, and is currently pursuing a Master of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  He has conducted fieldwork utilizing rainwater harvesting as a good solution for the lack of clean water in Northern Rwanda, which involved designeing and implementing rainwater-harvesting systems, building water tanks, improving water supply systems and providing clean water to thousands of people living in Bisate community. In addtion, he has worked on water quality analysis and the improvement of poor sanitary conditions and community sensitization for the America Refugee Committee in the Kiziba refugee camp. His work helped them to raise community awareness related to water, sanitation and hygiene.  Subsequently, he worked with an engineer in Kigali who was designing and improving wastewater treatment systems within industries. Through this work, they realized the lack of accurate technical information in this area. 

He is now working to start a business related to environmental engineering that will provide superior services, designs, and knowledge, and will be able to supply a wide range of water engineering solutions to community-based initiatives.

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