Our Founders, Partners & Members
The HTC is a ground-breaking collaboration between the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the United Nations Foundation in partnership with the IEEE Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership. Our leadership is comprised of dedicated professionals from our founding and partnering organizations
IEEE
An association of more than 375,000 engineers and technologists, IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.
IEEE is the world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology. Through its global membership, IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, energy and consumer electronics.
To find out more, go to ieee.org.
United Nations Foundation
Supporting United Nations (UN) causes to meet the global challenges of an interdependent age, the UN Foundation is a public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities.
The UN Foundation is an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas, and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems. The Foundation builds partnerships, grows constituencies, mobilizes resources and advocates policy changes to support the UN's work for individual and global progress. The UN Foundation's work - focused on select global problems - is decreasing child mortality, improving disaster relief, protecting diverse cultures and environments, creating a clean energy future, empowering women and girls, and improving U.S.-UN relations.
To find out more, go to unf.org.
IEEE Foundation
The IEEE Foundation is the philanthropic arm of IEEE.
With contributions from generous sponsors around the world, the IEEE Foundation seeks to increase the understanding of how technologies are created and how they impact society, individuals and the environment. Interdisciplinary in its activities and transnational in scope, the IEEE Foundation has the potential to improve people's lives everywhere.
To find out more, go to ieeefoundation.org.
The Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership
The UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation partnership strives to be the leading public-private alliance using strategic technology programs to strengthen the UN's humanitarian efforts worldwide. Created in October 2005, with a £10 million commitment from The Vodafone Group Foundation matched by £5 million from the UN Foundation, the Partnership has three core commitments:
- Develop rapid response telecoms teams to aid disaster relief;
- Develop health data systems that improve access to health data thereby helping to combat disease;
- Promote research and innovative initiatives using technology as an agent and tool for international development.
To find out more, go to www.unfoundation.org/vodafone.
HTC Leadership
IEEE HTC Steering Committee
- Roberto De Marca, Chair
- Russell Lefevre, Co-chair
- Michael Andrews, Chair, Geographic Partnership Group
- Karl Perusich, Chair, Society Partnership Group
- Paul Cheung, Hong Kong
- Donna Hudson, USA
- Ana Luisa Santos, IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade
- Roberto Saracco, Italy
- Lewis Terman, 2008 IEEE President
IEEE Staff
- Richard Baseil, Consultant, IEEE Technical Activities
- Dan Leone-Zwillinger, Web Specialist, IEEE Technical Activities
- Peter Sobel, Director of Corporate & Foundation Partnerships
- Harold Tepper, IEEE HTC Project Manager
- Mary Ward-Callan, Managing Director, Technical Activities
United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership
- Mitul Shah, Senior Director, Technology Partnerships
- Claire Thwaites, Head, Vodafone Group Foundation and United Nations Foundation Technology Partnership
- Adele Waugaman, Communications Director, Technology & Better World Campaign
IEEE Society Partnership Group
- Karl Perusich, Chair, Social Implications of Technology
- Jim Barbera, Oceanic Engineering
- Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Computational Intelligence
- Jon Candelaria, Electron Devices
- William Chen, Solid State Circuits
- Giovanni DeMicheli, Council on Electronic Design Automation
- Harold Flescher, Technical Activities, VP
- Lanny Floyd, Industry Applications
- Susan Hagness, Antennas and Propagation
- Elya Joffe, Electromagnetic Compatibility
- Steve Kenny, Microwave Theory and Techniques
- Luis Kun, Engineering in Medicine & Biology
- Ray Larsen, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
- Daniel Ogilvie, Consumer Electronics
- Jay Pearlman, Committee on Earth Observation
- Robin Podmore, Power and Energy
- Steven Reising, Geoscience & Remote Sensing
- John Schmalzel, Instrumentation and Measurement
- Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Ultrasonics, Ferroelectronics, Frequency Control
- Mehmet Ulema, Communications
- Gianmarco Veruggio, Robotics and Automation
- Michael Williams, Computer Society
IEEE Geographic Partnership Group
- Michael Andrews, Chair
- Hemant Vora and Prasanta Ghosh, Region 1
- Anthony Cerino, Region 2
- Percy Shadwell, Tuan Ta, Region 3
- Jim Reiss, Region 4
- Nick Pugh and David Pierce, Region 5
- Mike Andrews, Keith Moore, Region 6
- TBD, Region 7
- TBD, Region 8
- Eduardo Navarro, Region 9
- Amarnath Raja, Jimmy Chan, Region 10