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Bonser Lecture at IU to focus on creation of "next Silicon Valley"
Oct. 14, 1999
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Jack Harding, a veteran of the technical software industry and until recently president and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems, will present the Charles F. Bonser Distinguished Lecture in Public Policy at Indiana University on Oct. 21.
Harding's lecture, "Creating the Next Silicon Valley -- Innovation Investment Chains: The Public Policy Interface," will begin at 1:15 p.m. in the atrium of the Business/School of Public and Environmental Affairs building on the Bloomington campus. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
The lecture series is funded by a gift from Charles Bonser, founder and dean emeritus of the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and his wife, Nancy. The lecture series is cosponsored by SPEA and the Kelley School of Business, which each matched the Bonsers' gift to launch the series.
Harding is a member of the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Competitiveness, a bipartisan organization of chief executives from industry and academia dedicated to the global advancement of U.S. competitiveness. He also is a member of the council's executive committee. He serves as a director of many technology firms and provides capital and venture management to new and mid-sized companies.
Harding is a frequent speaker on the subjects of technological change and its impact on regional economic development. Recently, he was a guest speaker for the Lothian European Lecture Series in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Stanford University's Silicon Valley Networking Project. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics and chemistry from Drew University, where he is a member of its board of trustees.
The Bonser Lectures are intended to inform the IU community about public affairs issues and to continue the university's involvement in important and current discussions nationally and internationally.
Bonser, IU associate business dean from 1969 to 1972, was asked by then-IU President John Ryan in 1971 to explore plans for a new School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He was appointed the school's first dean in 1972.
During Bonser's 17-year tenure as SPEA dean, the school developed into one of the largest and most highly rated public affairs schools in the nation. The school currently has about 200 faculty and staff and about 3,000 students on five IU campuses. Bonser's association with IU goes back to the early 1960s, when he earned a master of business administration degree at IU, joined the business faculty, and then completed a doctorate in business. Then-IU President Thomas Ehrlich presented Bonser with a presidential citation upon his retirement from SPEA's deanship. Bonser retired from active service at IU in 1997.
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu