Previous Fora / 2011

Opening addresses

Speakers

Chairs, plenary speakers, facilitators and thematic speakers

ACSÁDY, László

Head of Lab. of Thalamus Research, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
CV
AL SHAIBANI, Madiha Ahmed

Minister of Education, Oman
CV
AMURIAT OBOI, Patrick

Member, Parliament of Uganda
CV
ARBER, Werner

Nobel Laureate
CV
ARIMOTO, Tateo

Director General, Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Deputy Director General, Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
CV
ARNON, Ruth

Wolf Prize Laureate, President, Israel Academy of Sciences
CV
BADRAN, Adnan

Former Prime Minister of Jordan,

President of Petra University, Senator and Chair of Senate Committee on Science, Education and Culture
CV
BARABÁSI, Albert László

Director, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University
CV
BARRÉ, Rémi

Researcher, National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, France
CV
BEACHY, Roger N.

Wolf Prize Laureate, Former Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, US
CV
BINT EL HASSAN, Sumaya HRH Princess

President of the El Hassan Science City and the Royal Scientific Society
CV
BOGYAY, Katalin

President, 36th General Conference of UNESCO
Hungarian Ambassador to UNESCO
CV
BOKOVA, Irina

Director General, UNESCO
CV
BRITO, Lidia

Director, Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development, UNESCO
CV
BURCHARDT, Ulla

Chair, Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, Bundestag, Germany
CV
BURTSCHER, Wolfgang

Deputy Director General
DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
CV
CAILLODS, Françoise

Senior Managing Director
World Social Science Report (ISSC)
CV
CALDARELLI, Guido

IMT and ISC-CNR,

Lucca Italy
CV
CAMPBELL, Cathleen A.

President & CEO, CRDF Global
CV
CHANDRU, Vijay

CEO, Strand Life Sciences, India
CV
CHRISTOU, PAUL

Research Professor, University of Leida, Spain
CV
COLGLAZIER, William

Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
CV
CSERMELY, Péter

President, Hungarian National Talent Support Council
CV
CUNNINGHAM, Patrick

Chief Science Advisor to the Irish Government
CV
DEHAENE, Stanislas

Professor, College de France

Director, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit
CV
DESHMUKH, Vilasrao

Minister of Science & Technology, Minister of Earth Sciences, India
CV
EJETA, Gebisa

2009 World Food Prize Laureate,

Science Envoy of President Barack Obama
CV
GOVENDER, Kevin

Director, Global Office of Astronomy for Development, South Africa
CV
GULYÁS, Balázs

Executive Director, World Science Forum
CV
HAUSMANN, Ricardo

Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University
CV
HAVAS, Attila

Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
CV
HAZELKORN, Ellen

Director of Research and Enterprise, and Dean of the Graduate Research School, Dublin Institute of Technology, Head of Higher Education Policy Research Unit
CV
HEAP, Brian Sir

President of European Academies Science Advisory Council and former Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society
CV
HENNING, Victor

CEO and founder Mendeley Limited, London, UK
CV
HERSHKOWITZ, Daniel

Minister of Science and Technology, Israel
CV
HOLFORD, Mandë

Assistant Professor, CUNY-York College and the Graduate Center
Inaugural member, WAYS
CV
HOSKINS, Brian Sir

Director, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London
CV
INGRAM, John

NERC Food Security Leader, Environmental Change Institute

Oxford University Centre for the Environment
CV
KALONJI, Gretchen

Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
CV
KASKI, Kimmo

Aalto University School of Science, Finland
CV
KASUGA, Fumiko

Vice-President in charge of International Affairs, Science Council of Japan
CV
KAUFMANN, Stefan H. E.

Director, Department of Immunology, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology
CV
KEENAN, Michael

OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
CV
KIMBLE, H. Jeff

Professor, California Institute of Technology
CV
KITSON-PANTANO, Raphaela

Programme Director, Euroscience Open Forum
CV
KLENK, Hans-Dieter

Institute for Virology, University of Marburg
CV
KRäUSSLICH, Hans-Georg

Director, Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg
CV
LEE, Yuan Tseh

President, ICSU
CV
LESHNER, Alan I.

Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
CV
MANDELL, Joshua

Science and Technology Program Officer, World Bank, STI Global Forum
CV
MARKS, John

Chair, ICSU Taskforce on Foresight
CV
MATHIES, Richard A.

Professor, University of California, Berkeley
CV
MAXTON, Julie

Executive Director, Royal Society
CV
MERCADANTE, Aloizio

Minister of Science and Technology, Brazil
CV
MICHALOWSKI, Stefan

Executive Secretary, OECD Global Science Forum
CV
MILLER, Andrew

Chairman, Science and Technology Committee, House of Commons, UK
CV
MIN, Dong-Pil

Honorary Chairman, Seoul S&T Forum
CV
MOJA, Teboho

Clinical Professor of Higher Education, School of Education, Department of Administration, Leadership and Technology at New York University
CV
MUKHTAR, Ahmed

Deputy Director General, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
CV
MURENZI, Romain

Executive Director, TWAS
CV
NAKICENOVIC, Nebojsa

Director, Global Energy Assessment
CV
NAVRACSICS, Tibor

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Public Administration and Justice, Hungary
CV
O'KENNEDY, Richard

President, London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF)
CV
OBORAH, Humphrey

President, African Council for Gifted and Talented
CV
ORBÁN, Viktor

Prime Minister, Hungary
CV
PÁLINKÁS, József

President of World Science Forum
President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)

Professor of physics, University of Debrecen (UD)
CV
PALIS, Jacob

President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences
CV
PARK, Won-Hoon

President, Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA)
CV
RAIVIO, Kari
CV
RECH, Elibio

Researcher, Genetics and Molecular Biology, EMBRAPA Recursos Geneticos e Biotecnologia, Brazil
CV
REZENDE, Sergio Machado

Former Minister of Science, Brazil
CV
RISTORI, Dominique

Director-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission
CV
ROCK, Bud

CEO, Association of Science and Technology Centers
CV
ROCKSTRÖM, Johan

Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute
CV
ROMAN, Henry

Chairman, WAYS Africa
CV
RÜBIG, Paul

Chairman, STOA - Science and Technology Options Assessment - European Parliament
CV
SAXENIAN, AnnaLee

Dean, Berkeley School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
CV
SCHMITT, Pál

President, Republic of Hungary
CV
SHEPHERD, Dionne

Research Officer, University of Cape Town, South Africa
CV
SINGER, Peter A.

Professor, University of Toronto

Chief Executive Officer, Grand Challenges Canada
CV
SMITH, Chris Llewellyn Sir FRS

Chair, Royal Society Advisory Group on Global Science Report
CV
STORCK, Thorsten

Global Project Manager, BASF Plant Science Company, Germany
CV
SZATHMÁRY, Eörs

Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
CV
TADDEI, Francois

Research Scientist and Founder of Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, France
CV
TANIGUCHI, Tomihiro

Executive Director, Japan STS Forum
CV
TER MEULEN, Volker

past president, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
CV
THANEY, Kaitlin

Manager, External Partnerships, Digital Science, London, UK
CV
TINDEMANS, Peter

Founder Member of Euroscience
CV
TUREKIAN, Vaughan

Chief International Officer, AAAS
CV
UR-RAHMAN, Atta

President, Pakistan Academy of Sciences
CV
VICSEK, Tamás

Professor of Physics, Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest
CV
VÍZI, E. Szilveszter

Former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
CV
WANG, Tom

Director for International Cooperation, Deputy Director, Center for Science Diplomacy, AAAS
CV
XIA, Jun

President, International Water Resources Association (IWRA)
CV
ZEWAIL, Ahmed

Nobel Laureate, California Institute of Technology
CV
ZIPFEL, Peter F.

Head of Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product
Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
CV