People

IDDS is an all volunteer-run event. Many dedicated people give their time and energy, often in a variety of roles, to make each summit possible. To the right are some of the volunteers of IDDS 2012. While these people work hard to run the event, it’s the spirit and commitment of the participants and the whole IDDS family that create the experience!

IDDS 2012 Brasil is being run by an all volunteer team of Brazilians in São Paulo, Brazil and all around the world. Stay tuned for bios of other dedicated organizers.

Roles

  • Mentor - A person who guides and advises the participants and their teams based on extensive experience in design and/or dissemination of products and ventures.
  • Organizer - A person who helps to set up and run the summit - a role that begins soon after the previous summit has ended.
  • Participant - A person who attends a summit as someone committed to working with others to design, develop and disseminate technologies to address poverty.
  • Facilitator - A person who focus on guiding teams through the design process.
  • Staff - A member of one of the organizing institutions committed to managing IDDS as an organization.
  • Faculty - A person that contributes their expertise and experience by delivering a portion of the curriculum.
  • Founder - A person committed to bringing a project to the summit and continuing it as a venture after the summit.
  • Replinizer - An organizer who is also learning how to replicate the summit in another location in the future.
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Amit Gandhi

Amit Gandhi graduated from Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and is now a graduate student in Mech.E. at MIT. He has been an organizer and participant in IDDS since 2007, where he … More →

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Amy Smith

Amy Smith is the founder of the International Development Design Summit and the founder and director of MIT’s D-Lab. After graduating from MIT in mechanical engineering, she served in the US Peace Corps in Botswana … More →

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Ana Luisa Santos

Ana Luisa Santos graduated from UFRJ (Brazil) in electronics engineering. She has master’s degrees in media technology from the MIT Media Lab and electrical engineering from Coppe/UFRJ. Since 2007, her experiences in international development have … More →

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Benjamin Linder

Benjamin Linder is a faculty member in Design and Mechanical Engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and a designer active in the Boston area. His teaching and research interests include sustainable design, … More →

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Carla Tennenbaum

Carla Tennenbaum was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. From 1995-1997 she attended the Armand Hammer United World College in New Mexico. She graduated in History at the University of São Paulo and studied … More →

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Daniel Mokrauer-Madden

Daniel Mokrauer-Madden graduated from MIT in 2008 with degrees in mathematics and physics. He has been part of the organizing staff of IDDS in 2008, 2010 and 2011. He currently works at Global Cycle Solutions … More →

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Eric Reynolds

Eric is a proud buckeye from Ohio. He is interested in the growing interconnectedness of our global community, ecologies that encourage creativity, and the preservation / adaption of identity through local innovation. He currently coordinates … More →

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Fernando de Oliveira Gil

Fernando is a computer engineer from the University of São Paulo, where he is currently pursuing a master’s degree in electrical engineering. He is also a Sustainability Designer from UMAPAZ. Fernando is the founder of … More →

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Harald Quintus Bosz

Harald Quintus-Bosz is Cooper Perkins’ Vice President of Engineering. Harald has over 18 years of product development experience. Harald started his career designing medical X-ray imaging equipment at XRE later joining IDEO. After 6 years … More →

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Jessica Huang

Jessica Huang was a participant at IDDS 2008 and helped to organize the last few summits in Colorado and Ghana. She studied civil/environmental engineering and business administration at the University of California, Berkeley and is … More →

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Mariana Negrao

Mariana Negrão graduated from the University of São Paulo with a degree in electrical engineering. She currently works in medical device development. She was a participant at IDDS 2008 in Boston, where she contributed to … More →

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Miguel Chaves

Miguel is a mechatronic engineer who has worked with IDDS since 2007. He has looked to be a serial entrepreneur and to reach this goal he has started some organizations in the social area: Engineering … More →

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Oscar Mur-Miranda

At Olin, Oscar Mur-Miranda has taught several electrical engineering classes such as Signals and Systems, Microelectromechanical Systems and Nonlinear Circuit Analysis. He has also taught Design Nature and User-Oriented Collaborative Design, part of the design … More →