James Fowler, co-author of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, will be one of the presenters at the iDiplomacy symposium. Fowler, a political science professor at UC San Diego, along with co-author Nicholas Christakis, was named “most original thinker of the year” in 2008 on the McLaughlin Group. Their research on social networks was featured in Time’s Year in Medicine in 2007 and 2008 and in Harvard Business Review’s Breakthrough Ideas. He also was named one of the Nifty Fifty “most inspiring” scientists by the San Diego Science Festival.

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