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