DAVID KORTEN
People-Centered Development Forum
Humanity's Epic Choice
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Friday Evening, September 14. 2007

Author of When Corporations Rule the World, an international bestseller that helped expose the economic injustice being advanced through free trade agreements, Dr. David Korten has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions as well as in contemporary citizen action organizations. He is founder and president of The People-Centered Development Forum, a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive, and sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action, co-founder and board chair of Positive Futures Network, and publisher of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, a quarterly magazine. David earned an MBA and Ph.D. from Stanford University, served as a faculty member at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business, and conducted research at the Harvard Institute for International Development. He served as a Ford Foundation project specialist in Manila and as Asia Regional Advisor on Development Management for the US Agency for International Development. Along with his long-standing commitments and active involvement in organizations engaged in creating a better future, David most recently wrote The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.