Previous Fora / 2009 / Programme
Contributors
Chairs, plenary speakers, facilitators and thematic speakers
Raphael ADESIYAN Nigerian Community of Young Scientists (NICOYS), Nigeria |
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Bruce ALBERTS Editor-in-Chief, Science (AAAS journal), USA (CV) |
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Abdulaziz Othman ALTAWAIJRI Director General, ISESCO (CV) |
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Werner ARBER Nobel Laureate, Biozentrum, Division of Molecular Microbiology, University of Basel, Switzerland (CV) |
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Tateo ARIMOTO DG, Ristex, Japan (CV) |
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Hossam BADRAWI MP, Egypt (CV) |
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Jenny BAESEMAN Director, Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), University of Tromsø Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Norway (CV) |
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Gordon BAJNAI Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary (CV) |
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Beatriz BARBUY Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil (CV) |
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Dan BITAN Co-Director, Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization (IPSO), Israel (CV) |
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Cecilia BJÖRNER Ambassador of Sweden to Hungary (CV) |
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John BORIGHT Executive Director, Office of International Affairs, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), USA (CV) |
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Catherine BRÉCHIGNAC President-Elect, International Council for Science (ICSU), France (CV) |
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Ulla BURCHARDT MP, Germany |
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Philip CAMPBELL Editor-in-Chief, Nature (CV) |
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Catherine CESARSKY High Commissioner for Atomic Energy, France (CV) |
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Ana María CETTO IAEA Deputy Director General, and Head of Department of Technical Cooperation, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria (CV) |
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Dato Lee Yee CHEONG Academician, Malaysia (CV) |
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Yoon CHUNG President, Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity (KOFAC), Korea |
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David CLARY Chief Scientific Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (CV) |
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David COPE Director, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK (CV) |
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Angela CROPPER Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Kenya (CV) |
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Valéria CSÉPE Deputy Secretary General, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary (CV) |
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Péter CSERMELY Professor, Semmelweis University, Hungary (CV) |
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Mihály CSÍKSZENTMIHÁLYI Claremont Graduate University (CV) |
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Marin DACOS Director, Open Electronic Publishing Center, France (CV) |
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Hasan DWEIK Co-Director, Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization (IPSO), Israel (CV) |
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Nadia EL-AWADY President, World Federation of Science Journalists, Egypt (CV) |
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Mustafa EL-TAYEB Director, Science Policy and Sustainable Development Division UNESCO, France (CV) |
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Luiz Antonio ELIAS Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Brazil |
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Tracey ELLIOTT Head of International, Science Policy Centre of the Royal Society, UK |
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Walter ERDELEN Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO, France (CV) |
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Nina FEDOROFF S&T Adviser to the Secretary of State, Office of the Science and Technology Adviser, USA (CV) |
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Balázs GULYÁS Executive Director of the World Science Forum (CV) |
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Francis GURRY Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Switzerland (CV) |
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Kerri-Ann JONES Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, USA (CV) |
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Heide HACKMANN Secretary General, International Social Science Council (ISSC) (CV) |
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Wendy HALL ACM President, School of Electronics and Computer Science - University of Southampton, United Kingdom (CV) |
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Mohamed HASSAN Executive Director, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Italy (CV) |
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József HÁMORI President of the World Conference on Science (CV) |
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Davidson L. HEPBURN President of UNESCO's General Conference (CV) |
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Gudmund HERNES President, ISSC (CV) |
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Juan Carlos Romero HICKS Director General of the National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico (CV) |
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Ichiro KANAZAWA President, Science Council of Japan, Japan (CV) |
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Béla KATONA Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Hungary |
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Yoshinori KATORI Ambassador for Science an Technology Cooperation, Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (CV) |
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Crispus M. KIAMBA Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Kenya (CV) |
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Julia KING Vice Chancellor, Aston University, Birmingham, UK (CV) |
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Rüdiger KLEIN Executive Director, ALL European Academies (ALLEA) (CV) |
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Wilhelm KRULL Secretary General, VW Foundation, Germany (CV) |
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Reiko KURODA Professor, Department of Life Science - University of Tokyo, Japan (CV) |
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Ruth LADENHEIM Secretary of Planning and Policies in Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina (CV) |
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María Teresa LAGO Center for Astrophysics University of Porto, Portugal (CV) |
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István LÁNG Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (CV) |
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Alan I. LESHNER CEO American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA (CV) |
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Chuan Poh LIM Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (CV) |
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Yonglong LÜ Director, Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (CV) |
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Yongxiang LU President, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (CV) |
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Natalia LUKINA Deputy Director, Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (CV) |
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Brendan MACKEY Australian National University, Wild Country Research and Policy Hub (CV) |
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Gaell MAINGUY Director of Scientific Publications, The Institut Veolia Environnement, France (CV) |
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Marja MAKAROW Chief Executive, European Science Foundation, France (CV) |
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Diana MALPEDE Science Policy Division, UNESCO |
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Joshua MANDELL Science and Technology Program Officer, The World Bank (CV) |
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Julia MARTON-LEFEVRE Director General, World Conservation Union (IUCN), Switzerland (CV) |
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Koïchiro MATSUURA Director-General, UNESCO, France (CV) |
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Dennis MEADOWS Director, Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire (CV) |
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Stjepan MESIC President of the Republic of Croatia (CV) |
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Stefan MICHALOWSKI Head of the Secretariat of the Global Science Forum OECD Global Science Forum, France (CV) |
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Dong-Pil MIN Chairman, Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science and Technology, South Korea (CV) |
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Franz MÖNKS President, European Council of High Ability, Netherlands |
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Hiroshi NAGANO Professor, Former Director-General of National Institute of Science and Technology Policy; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (CV) |
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Sudha NAIR Program Director, Biodiversity, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, India (CV) |
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Peter NIJKAMP Past Chairman, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands (CV) |
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Norman NEUREITER Senior Adviser, Center for Science Diplomacy, AAAS, USA (CV) |
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Patrick Amuriat OBOI MP, Uganda (CV) |
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Michael OBORNE Director, OECD (CV) |
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Richard O'KENNEDY President, London International Youth Science Forum, Dublin City University, Ireland |
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Máté OLÁH Secretary, Network of Youth Excellence (CV) |
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Koji OMI Founder and Chairman, Science and Technology in Society forum, Japan, plenary keynote lecturer (Forum of Global Science Fora) (CV) |
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József PÁLINKÁS President, HAS (CV) |
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Zvi PALTIEL Chairperson, Executive Board - Network of Youth Excellence, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (CV) |
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Olivier PIOU Director General, Gemalto, France (CV) |
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Dragan PRIMORAC Former Minister of Science, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia |
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Sir George RADDA Past Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, UK (CV) |
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Henry ROMAN Chairman, WAYS-Africa (CV) |
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Penny SACKETT Chief Scientist of Australia, Office of the Chief Scientist, Australia (CV) |
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Teiichi SATO Honorable Director, Tokyo National Museum, Japan (CV) |
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Hans Joachim SCHELLNHUBER Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany (CV) |
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Roland SCHENKEL Director General, Joint Research Center, EU (CV) |
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Robert SCHLÖGL Director, Fritz-Haber Institute, Max-Planck Society, Germany (CV) |
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László SÓLYOM President of the Republic of Hungary, Hungary (CV) |
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Peter TINDEMANS Director, Global Knowledge Strategies and Partnerships; Euroscience Governing Board, Netherlands |
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Vaughan TUREKIAN Chief International Officer and Director Center for Science Diplomacy, AAAS (CV) |
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Henna VIRKKUNEN Minister, Ministry of Education and Science, Finland (CV) |
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E. Sylvester VIZI Chair of the World Science Forum Series Steering Committee (CV) |
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Mathis WACKERNAGEL Executive Director, Global Footprint Network (CV) |
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Francis WALDVOGEL Director, Executive Board, World Knowledge Dialogue, Switzerland (CV) |
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Jiarui WU Vice-president, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
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Ahmed ZEWAIL Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and, Professor of Physics, Director, Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science & Technology, California Institute of Technology (CV) |
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Linxiu ZHANG Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (CV) |
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Moneef R. ZOU'BI Director General, Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS), Jordan (CV) |