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• Opening Ceremony
• Science and Innovation as a Global Enterprise
• Investing in Future Generations
• Plenary Session II.
• The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Achievement of The Millennium Development Goal
• Investing in Knowledge for Peace IPSO (Israeli-Palestine Science Organisation) Panel
• Plenary Session III. - Panel: Reviews of Representatives of Global Fora
• Investing in Knowledge for Sustainability I. - The Best Science-Based Governance Initiatives
• Investing in Knowledge for Sustainability II. - Paradigm Change for Sustainability - Sine Qua Nons
• Investing in Knowledge for Sustainability III. - Science-Based Politics towards a Paradigm Change
• Investing in Knowledge for Sustainability IV. - Moral Imperatives for Europe and the World
• Special Session on "Investing in STI: Challenges and Opportunities for Parliaments" I.
• Special Session on "Investing in STI: Challenges and Opportunities for Parliaments" II.
• Plenary Session IV.
• Parliament Plenary Session and Closing Plenary Session

Dr János Zlinszky

REC/PPCU

E-mail: JZlinszky@rec.org ; jmz@jak.ppke.hu

ZLINSZKY János is currently Senior Adviser for Environmental Policy to the President of Hungary, Senior Adviser to the Executive Director of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Szentendre, Hungary, and Associate Professor at the Department for Environmental Law and Competition Law, Faculty of Law, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest.

Since 2004 he has been involved in the design, management and teaching responsibilities of the Course for Sustainability, a course for key government officials to help them make more sustainable policies. This course is run in a partnership, particularly with Venice International University, supported by the Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory.

In 2003, he was working with the École Supérieure de Commerce et de Management (ESCEM, France) as a Visiting Professor where he designed and taught a course in Sustainable Development. His prior teaching and research includes work at Carleton University, Ottawa and a fellowship with Cambridge University, teaching courses in environmental politics in the MSc Programme, introductory courses for the MLa in environmental law. In 1996 he set up the department for environment studies at the Catholic University in Hungary.

Dr Zlinszky has published extensively and presented at many conferences over the years. His qualifications include doctorates in Natural Sciences and Environmental Biology from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and University of Ulster, Coleraine, United Kingdom.

Dr Zlinszky is a member of various learned societies and NGOs engaged in the work for sustainability, among them Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, and the Balaton Group. He is married with three children.