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Anke Schwittay, Ph.D.
Faculty Anke Schwittay is the co-founder and Director of Research of RiOS Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, where she also has been lecturing on capitalism, development, technology and social entrepreneurship. She is the author of Silicon Valley's Emerging Markets: Global Corporate Citizenship and Entrepreneurship in the IT Industry, which is based in several years of ethnographic research among high-tech corporations in Silicon Valley, as well Latin America and India. She is currently conducting ethnographic research on social innovation and social entrepreneurship in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anke has worked as a researcher with the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley independent research organization forecasting emerging trends in technology, healthcare and business. She also consulted with the World Bank Institute's Business, Competitiveness and Development group and is an advisor to the United Nations' Global Alliance for ICT and Development. photo by Patty Nason |
