Co-sponsored by the European Studies Jean Monnet Projects grant (funded by the European Commission), Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, the Institute for Regional and International Studies, the Center for South Asia.
(Please note new room assignment for this event! The Lee Lounge is on the main level of the Pyle Center, across the hall from the main registration desk.)
Scott McCallum was the Wisconsin Governor 2001-03 after serving as Lieutenant Governor for 14 years, and in the State Senate for 10 years prior to that. He has a BA from Macalester College, MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, an Honorary Jurist Doctor degree from Marian University, and is a PhD candidate in Integrative Communications for Administration and Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. From 2005-2015 McCallum was President & CEO of the Aidmatrix Foundation. Under his leadership they grew from a regional nonprofit organization to one of the world’s largest technology providers to the humanitarian sector, working with over 32,000 clients on 5 continents.
McCallum taught in the Biotechnology Master of Science program in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2009-2017. He has published and presented throughout the world on technology for humanitarian purposes and its effect upon jobs and public policy. He also represents health care and technology companies in establishing collaborative projects. His academic research provides insights of the impact of the technology revolution on the global economy. He serves on nonprofit organization boards for the Institute of Sustainability (Washington, D.C.), ResponseNet (New Delhi), the Alliance for Innovation (Warsaw), and the Helen Bader Institute of Nonprofit Management at UW-M, and is a consultant for both nonprofit and for-profit organizations in the U.S., India, Poland and Canada.
McCallum has received many awards for his use of technology to advance humanitarian issues, including the 21st Century Achievement Award for “visionary use of information technology to promote positive social economic and educational change” and a “true hero of the information age” (Computerworld). Government Technology Magazine named McCallum to the “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers” in U.S. Technology, March 2013.
A partial list of publications includes How Technology is Transforming Disaster Relief. McCallum, On the Brink, US Chamber of Commerce, 2008; Budgeting & Funding Technology – How to Finance Your IT Structure. McCallum, Thode, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders, Wiley Publishers, 2009; Nongovernmental Organizations: Solving Society’s Problems. S. McCallum, R. Boyer, Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications, edited by Caywood, McGrawHill 2012; Work Analysis, Technology, and the Millennium Development Goals, S. McCallum, L.F. Thompson, A. Gloss; Humanitarian Work Psychology and the Global Development Agenda: Case Studies and Interventions, edited by McWha, Maynard, and Berry, London: Psychology Press 2016; Psychological Dynamics in Information and Communication Technology for Development Projects. Behrend, Gloss, Honadon, Thompson, McCallum; Information Communications Technology for Development Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 2013.