Joseph Nye welcome to BGF Japan’s conference

Joseph Nye welcome to BGF Japan’s conference

by | Nov 5, 2017 | News

Oct.24,Tue
Venue: International House in Tokyo
Theme: Trump Foreign Policy

Following the conference, we celebrated Joseph Nye’s 80 birthday by presenting him with a cake decorated with the names and ages of prominent Japanese scholars and colleagues of Dr. Nye, who is known as: “The Father of Soft Power Diplomacy.”

Professor Thomas Patterson: On 2016 Global Cybersecurity Day

Professor Thomas Patterson: On 2016 Global Cybersecurity Day

by | Dec 12, 2016 | Global Cyber Security Day, Event Updates

On 2016 Global Cybersecurity Day, our speakers and discussants not only talked about the issue of cybersecurity but they also discussed about idea related to the newly launched organization: Global Citizenship Education Network (GCEN), which is presented by Professor Thomas Patterson – Co-Founder, the Boston Global Forum

Professor Thomas E. Patterson

In his presentation, Professor Patterson mentioned about UNESCO first initiative of Global Citizen and each organization’s part in creating GCEN. As of December 11, 2016, “UCLA is designated as site of The UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education” and Boston Global Forum (BGF) had become the official partner of UNESCO-UCLA in Global Citizenship Education.

As a partner, BGF will help administer GCEN in the segments of GC Scorecard, GC Network Website and GC Education & Incentive Program. Professor Patterson significantly described the process of becoming a Global Citizen and long life with Global Citizen Scorecard. He also demonstrated BGF’s strategy on developing GCEN in the future.

Please see his full presentation below.

Global Citizenship Scorecard & Global Citizenship Education Network


Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

by | Jul 14, 2019 | Global Enlightenment Leaders, Board of Directors, Board of Thinkers, Members

Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs, and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the “7 most powerful data scientists in the world” along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is on the Board of the UN Foundations’ Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR, and was central in forging the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.

He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General, a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies including social enterprises such as the Data Transparency Lab and the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and leader within the World Economic Forum.

Over the years Sandy has advised more than 60 PhD students. Almost half are now tenured faculty at leading institutions, with another quarter leading industry research groups and a final quarter founders of their own companies. Together Sandy and his students have pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics, published by Penguin Press, and Honest Signals, published by MIT Press.

Interesting experiences include dining with British Royalty and the President of India, staging fashion shows in Paris, Tokyo, and New York, and developing a method for counting beavers from space.