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PRESENTATIONS AND SLIDES OF THE SESSIONS

PLENARY SESSIONS

25 NOV 09:00 - 10:30 PLENARY SESSION I. "INEQUALITIES AS BARRIERS FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY"

Chair: Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director-General, UNESCO

John Burn, Newcastle University, Human Variome Project
Ricardo Paes e Barros, Strategic Secretary of the Brazilian Presidency's Strategic Affairs
Linxiu Zhang, Deputy Director of the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy

 

25 NOV 11:00 - 12:30 PLENARY SESSION II. "SCIENCE POLICY AND GOVERNANCE: INVENTING THE FUTURE"

Chair: Alan Leshner, CEO, AAAS

Luiz Davidovich, Director, Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Heneri Dzinotyiweyi, Former Minister of Science and Development of Zimbabwe
Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to President of the European Commission
Takashi Onishi, President, Science Council of Japan

 

25 NOV 14:00 - 15:30 PLENARY SESSION III. "SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY"

Chair: Ernst Winnacker, Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program

Paulo Beirão, Coordinator, Global Research Council
Indira Nath, National Institute of Pathology (ICMR)
Nicholas Steneck, Director, Research Ethics and Integrity Program, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research

 

26 NOV 09:00 - 10:30 PLENARY SESSION IV. "SCIENCE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES"

Chair: Chunli Bai, President, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ernesto Julio Calvo, Director of INQUIMAE
Pavel Kabat, Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Marcia McNutt, Editor-in-Chiefe, Science
Luis Eugenio de Melo, Vale, Brazil

 

26 NOV 11:00 - 12:30 PLENARY SESSION V. "SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION"

Chair: Volker ter Meulen, IAP Co-Chair

Tariq Durrani, Vice President, the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Pierre Léna, President of the Foundation La main à la Pâte
Eva-Maria Neher, XLAB Experimental Laboratory for Young People in Göttingen 
Daya Reddy, President, Academy of Sciences of South Africa

 

26 NOV 14:00 - 15:30 PLENARY SESSION VI. "THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLES OF SCIENCE IN INNOVATION"

Chair: József Pálinkás, President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Umar Buba Bindir, DG, National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion
Reiko Kuroda, Tokyo University of Science; Science Council of Japan

Alvaro Prata, National Secretary for Technology and Innovation Development, Ministrey of ST&I of Brazil.
Carlos Tadeu, Executive Manager for Pre salt, Petrobras

 

THEMATIC SESSIONS

 

25 NOV 16:00 - 17:30 PARALLEL THEMATIC SESSIONS I. "AMAZONIA, BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT"

Chair: Adalberto Val

Jhan Carlo Espinoza

Wolfgang Junk 
Marlucia Martins

 

25 NOV 16:00 - 17:30 PARALLEL THEMATIC SESSIONS I. "THE MEDICAL CHALLENGE OF OLD AGE"

Chair: Helena Nader
Manfred Hallschmid
Fernando Lavadenz 
Sérgio Pena
Jiarui Wu

 

25 NOV 16:00 - 17:30 PARALLEL THEMATIC SESSIONS I. "SCIENCE DIPLOMACY"

Chair: Katalin Bogyay
Tateo Arimoto 
Dan Bitan and Hasan Dweik
Adel El Beltagy 
Romain Murenzi 
Vaughan Turekian 

 

  • 25 NOV 17:30 - 19:00 PARALLEL THEMATIC SESSIONS II. "SUSTAINABLE PLANTED FORESTS"

    Chair: Ron Sederoff

    Dario Grattapaglia 
    Hans Grosse Werner 
    Shawn Mansfield 
    Oudara Souvannavong

  • 25 NOV 17:30 - 19:00 PARALLEL THEMATIC SESSIONS II. "APPLYING OCEAN SCIENCES AND KNOWLEDGE FOR SOCIETAL BENEFIT: DEMANDS AFTER RIO+20"

  • Chair: Wendy Watson-Wright
    José Muelbert
    Alan Simcock
    Patricia Miloslavich

  • 25 NOV 17:30 - 19:00 PARALLEL THEMATIC SESSIONS II. "THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN BUILDING A CRITICAL MASS FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY"

  • Chair: Lidia Brito
    Chusheng Chen
    Marlene Hamilton
    Heila Lotz-Sisitka
    Deog-Seong Oh
    Eudine Barriteau


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