Speaker bio

V.V. Krishna
Chair, Centre for Studies in Science Policy
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharla Nehru University, New Delhi

V.V. Krishna, chair of the Centre for Studies in Science Policy at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, was a visiting professor in 2004-2005 at the Centre on Industry and Innovation Studies, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Krishna has published more than 30 research papers and five books, including Scientific Communities in the Developing Countries, Science and Technology in a Developing World (Sage Publications, 1997) and S.S. Bhatnagar on Science Technology and Development, 1938–54 (1994, Wiley Eastern Ltd).

He is the founder-editor of Science, Technology and Society, an international journal devoted to S&T policy issues in the developing world and served as a consultant to UNESCO, Paris, for its program on electronic publishing in developing countries and the publication of the World Science Report 1998 and UNESCO Science Report 2005, as well as to the ILO in 2001 for its program on the informal sector.

He has a Ph.D. in sociology of science from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Krishna has more than 23 years of research experience in the areas of sociology of science, science and technology policy and innovation studies, and social history of science.

Krishna was a council member of the Society for Social Studies of Science in the United States and a member of the International Council for Science Policy Studies, ICSU, UNESCO, Paris. He is also on the Task Force on Clusters, UNIDO, New Delhi.

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