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Session II: The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals: From Policy to Actions
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest V., Roosevelt square 9.)
11.30 - 13.30
Room C
The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Achievement of The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): from Policy to Actions
Organisers
UNESCO and TWAS
Part I. Opening of the Session
Chair
Mustafa EL-TAYEB
Director, Science Policy Division, UNESCO
- Opening Addresses
- Walter ERDELEN
Assistant Director for Natural Sciences, UNESCO - Jacob PALIS
President, TWAS
- Walter ERDELEN
- Introductory Remarks: The MDGs and the Role of Science
- Jeffrey SACHS
Director, Earth Institute, USA - Mohammed HASSAN
Executive Director, TWAS
- Jeffrey SACHS
- Discusssion
Part II.
Chair
Dato Lee YEE CHEONG
Coordinator of the UN Task Force 10
Speakers
- Yongyuth YUTHAVONG
Minister of Science and Technology, Thailand
Harnessing STI for Development: the Case of Thailand - Hani HILAL
Minister of Higher Education and Research, Egypt
Harnessing STI for Development: the Case of Egypt - Adnan BADRAN
Former Prime Minister, Jordan
The STI Landscape in the Arab World - Armando SANGUINI
Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for Africa; Director General for Sub-Sahara Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Achieving the MDG: A View from the North - Conclusions by Dato Lee YEE CHEONG