Calestous Juma (born 9 June 1953 at Port Victoria, western Kenya) is an internationally recognized authority in the application of science and technology to sustainable development worldwide. He is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He was Visiting Professor at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies in Yokohama, Japan. In recognition of his work, Juma has been elected to the Royal Society of London, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), the Royal Academy of Engineering, the African Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences. In 2007 he was listed by Kenya's Standard newspaper as one of Kenya's 100 most influential people. Juma grew up on the Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria where he obtained early education. He first worked as an elementary school teacher before becoming Africa's first science and environment journalist at Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper. Juma later joined the Nairobi-based Environment Liaison Centre International (ELCI) as a founder and editor of trilingual quarterly magazine, Ecoforum. He later received an MSc in Science, Technology and Industrialization and a DPhil in Science and Technology Policy from the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. He has written widely on science, technology and sustainable development and contributes to a weekly column in the Nairobi-based Business Daily.