Dr Tim Unwin is Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Director of the ICT4D Collective and Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Nationality: British
Tim Unwin is Chair of the
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D,
Director of the ICT4D Collective and Professor of Geography at
Royal Holloway, University of London. From 2001-2004 he
led the UK Prime Minister's Imfundo: Partnership for IT in
Education initiative based within the Department for International
Development, and from 2007-2008 he was Director and then Senior
Advisor to the World Economic Forum's Partnerships for Education
initiative with UNESCO.
He was previously Head of the Department
of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London (1999-2001),
and has also served as Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geographical
Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
(1995-1997). He has written or edited 15 books, and
more than 200 papers and other publications, including
"Wine and the Vine" (Routledge, 1991; translated into three
languages) and "The Place of Geography" (Longman, 1992). His work
has taken him to more than 25 countries across the world, from
Estonia to Sierra Leone, and Australia to Kenya.
Over the last decade his research has
concentrated on information and communication technologies for
development (ICT4D), focusing especially on its use to
support people with disabilities, and to empower out of school
youth. His latest book, entitled simply ICT4D, was
published by Cambridge University Press in early 2009. He
also serves as Academic Advisor and External Examiner for the
Institute of Masters of Wine.