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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

Nick MABEY

Founder Director, E3G Third Generation Environmentalism, UK

Nick Mabey is Chief Executive and a founder director of E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) a non-profit company dedicated to accelerating the transition to sustainable development. Nick leads E3G's work on Europe's external role, new approaches to foreign policy, the security implications of climate change, and the development of innovative change and decision making tools.

Until December 2005 he was a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit leading work on national and international policy areas, including: energy, climate change, fisheries, countries at risk of instability and organised crime. Nick was previously employed in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Environment Policy Department, and was the FCO lead for the Johannesburg Summit in 2002 where he established international partnerships on clean energy (www.REEEP.org), tourism (www.tourismfoundation.org) and environmental democracy (www.pp10.org).

Before he joined government Nick was Head of Economics and Development at WWF-UK. He came to WWF from research at London Business School on the economics of climate change, published in the book "Argument in the Greenhouse". This followed a period in the UK electricity industry working as a negotiator for PowerGen and an engineer for GEC-Alsthom. Nick trained as a mechanical engineer at Bristol University and holds a masters degree in Technology and Policy from MIT where he specialised in energy systems analysis.

Among other appointments Nick currently sits on the East-West Institute's International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy, the Advisory Committee for the Energy, Environment and Development programme at Chatham House, and the Centre For Computational Finance and Economic Agents, University of Essex.