# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/calestous-juma
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:06:37.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/calestous-juma"
name: "Calestous Juma"
slug: "calestous-juma"
description: "Calestous Juma was a Kenyan scientist and academic, specializing in sustainable development. He was named one of the most influential 100 Africans in 2012, 2013 and 2014 by the New African magazine. He was Professor of the Practice of International Development and Faculty Chair of the Innovation for Economic Development Executive Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Juma was Director of the School's Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School as well as the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."
tagline: "Kenyan academic (1953–2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Calestous_Juma.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-06-09"
deathDate: "2017-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.41
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.274010666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%87"
    title: "كاليستوس جمعه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calestous_Juma"
    title: "Calestous Juma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calestous_Juma"
    title: "Calestous Juma"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calestous_Juma"
    title: "Calestous Juma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calestous_Juma"
    title: "Calestous Juma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calestous_Juma"
    title: "Calestous Juma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juma'a_mai_girma"
    title: "Juma'a mai girma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calestous_Juma"
    title: "Calestous Juma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5019535"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump