David Green
Senior Lecturer, CAS Writing Program Writing Coordinator, CORE Curriculum at Boston University
at Eli Broad College of Business
Biography
Boston University
Dr. Green is a senior lecturer in the Core Curriculum and the CAS Writing Program where he teaches a course entitled “Approaches to Death.” In the Core he teaches the second-year humanities sequence and serves as the Writing Coordinator of the program. Before coming to Boston University, he taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio and St. Mary’s University, also in San Antonio, as well as at universities in Spain and China. His publications include the novel Atchley (1998 Station Hill Arts), a collection of short stories entitled The Garden of Love (2010 Pen & Anvil Press), and scholarly articles on Samuel Beckett and the Irish poet Brian Coffey.
Eli Broad College of Business
David Green has worked with many organizations to make medical technology and health care services sustainable, affordable and accessible to all. David is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur. David helped establish Aurolab (India), to produce affordable intraocular lenses (now has 8% of the global market share) and suture. He has helped develop high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees, including Aravind Eye Hospital in India – which performs 300,000 surgeries per year – 70 percent of the care is provided free of charge or below – cost, yet the hospital is able to generate substantial surplus revenue. Within this paradigm of ‘humanizing capitalism, he now works as an Ashoka VP (since 2004) to create social investing instruments to support sustainable social enterprises (in eye care and solar energy). He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor in General Studies (1978) and a Masters degree in Public Health (1982). He is the recipient of the 2009 “Spirit of Helen Keller” award for humanitarian efforts in blindness prevention and is the recipient of the 2009 University of Michigan Humanitarian Service Award.
Read about executive education
Other experts
Robin (Rob) Tanner
Rob Tanner is an associate professor with the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business. His research interests currently include implications of selective processing for consumer choice, non-conscious influences on consumer choice, and consumer optimism. Tanner’s work has app...
Pablos Holman
Pablos is a futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into breaking and building new technologies. Pablos is consulting worldwide on invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies - making wild ideas a bit more practical and vice versa. He helped create the worl...
Barry James
Barry James is currently the Chief Corporate Development Officer at Lloyd Sadd Insurance Brokers Ltd and was previously Managing Partner of the Edmonton office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a position he held for ten years. Barry is currently a member of the board of ATB Financial, serving as Ch...
Looking for an expert?
Contact us and we'll find the best option for you.