Ernest Wilson III
Dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Ernest Wilson III is Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and the Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication at the University of Southern California. He is a senior fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and an adjunct fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy. Wilson's current work concentrates on the politics of global sustainable innovation in high-technology industries; on China-Africa relations; and the role of culture in U.S. national security policy. He has written or co-written numerous books, most recently The Information Revolution in Developing Countries and Negotiating the Net in Africa, and co-edits an MIT Press series and an MIT journal. He is also the ranking senior member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Previously, Wilson was a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, director of the university's Center for International Development and Conflict Management, and a faculty member at the universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania. Wilson received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.