Conference hostsJoe Coughlin
Joseph F. Coughlin, Ph.D. is Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. Named by the Wall Street Journal as one of “12 pioneers inventing the future of aging and how we will all live, work and play tomorrow,” his research seeks to understand how demographic and social trends, human behavior and technology converge to drive future innovations in business and government. Dr. Coughlin teaches classes in policy and systems innovation offered in both MIT’s School of Engineering and Harvard Medical School.
He consults to governments, financial services, consumer products, transportation, retailers, IT and health firms worldwide. Winner of the Gerontological Society of America's 2008 Pollack Award for translating research into improvements in policy and practice for older people, he is a fellow of Switzerland's World Demographic Association and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Demographic Shifts.
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