CITRIS is hosting a lunchtime panel discussion on the New Manufacturing Revolution, featuring Paul Markillie [The Economist], Peter Marsh [The Financial Times], John Zysman [Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy] and Björn Hartmann [EECS at UC Berkeley].
is a senior editor at The Economist. Paul worked for a number of national newspapers in Britain before joining the magazine in 1986 to work for the business section, where he covered transportation industries, including the automotive and aerospace businesses. In 1994 he moved to Hong Kong to become the magazine’s first Asian business correspondent, covering greater China, South-East Asia, South Korea and Australia. In 1998, he was appointed Asia Editor. After helping to develop economist.com and working as a special features editor, he became Innovation Editor, a newly created post, in 2008. Paul principally writes about technological developments for the science and business sections. He has a strong interest in manufacturing technology and in 2012 wrote The Economist special report “The Third Industrial Revolution”, which attracted worldwide interest.
is the author of “The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production”. He worked at the Financial Times from 1983-2013, based in London and most recently as manufacturing editor. During his tenure, he also covered technology, economics, chemicals industry,and insurance scandals. Peter has previously worked as a journalist at the New Scientist, Luton Evening Post, and Building Design.
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This semester marks the start of a new format for CITRIS seminars. The i4Energy seminar series will be included in the Research Exchange seminar series and held only on Wednesdays (seminars will no longer take place separately on Fridays). This format gives us chance to focus on each of our initiatives in turn, bringing challenging speakers to discuss their research and join in an ongoing discussion at CITRIS.
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The seminars are held in in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, and box lunches are provided *with registration*.
Registration for each event (by the Monday prior at 3pm) is required for lunch at UC Berkeley at
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