MIT World Speakers

Joseph F. Coughlin

Joseph F. Coughlin is founding Director of the MIT AgeLab - a partnership between MIT, industry and the aging community to engineer innovative approaches and technologies to improve the quality of life of older adults and those that care for them. Coughlin’s research has been featured in Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Le Monde and ABC News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN World. He has assisted numerous organizations including AT&T, IBM and the American Business Collaborative for Quality Dependent Care, Johnson & Johnson, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He teaches strategic management and public policy within the MIT School of Engineering's Engineering Systems Division.