Speakers

Chairs, plenary speakers, facilitators and thematic speakers

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    NGOME ABIAGA, Jean-Paul

    Assisstant Programme Specialist,
    International Basic Sciences Programme of UNESCO

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    MURRAY, Virginia

    Vice-chair UNISDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG), Chair of the S&T Organising Committee for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

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    GOLOMBEK, Diego

    Science Communicator, Head of the Chronobiology Laboratory and full Professor University of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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    BAMMOUN, Aicha

    ISESCO Directorate, Rabat, Morocco

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    POLCUCH, Ernesto Fernandez

    Senior Programme Specialist, Science and Technology Policy and Capacity-Building, UNESCO Regional Office for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, Montevideo, Uruguay

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    BADRAWI, Hossam

    Chairman Nile Badrawi Foundation for Education & Development
    Former Chairman of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research, Parliament of Egypt

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    MIGNONE, Claudia

    Astrophysicist, Science Writer and Communicator, Amsterdam

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    LEE, Fook Kay

    Chief Science and Technology Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore

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    TÖRÖK, Ádám

    Secretary-General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

     

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    RAKHMANIN, Vladimir Olegovich

    FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia

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    HACKMANN, Heide

    Executive Director, International Council for Science (ICSU)

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    DAJANI, RANA

    Associate Professor, Hashemite University, Visiting Professor, Yale Stem Cell Center and University of Cambridge

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    CUNNIGHAM, Patrick

    Professor of Animal Genetics,Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland

    Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Irish Government


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    NAVRACSICS, Tibor

    EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport

     


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    ORBÁN, Viktor

    Prime Minister, Hungary

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    THALER György

    Development Director, Gedeon Richter Plc

     


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    SHAMIR, Uri

    Chair, Technical Advisory Committee, United Nations World Water Assessment Program


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    ÁDER, János

    President of Hungary

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    AMANO, Hiroshi

    Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics

    Professor, Nagoya University (Japan)

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    BAKER, Mary

    Immediate Past President, European Federation of Neurological Associations

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    BATES, Paul

    Head of the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

    Member of the Royal Society working group on ‘Resilience to extreme weather’.

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    BENCHIKH, Osman

    Chief of Section, Innovation and Capacity Building in Science and Engineering, UNESCO

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    BINT EL HASSAN, Sumaya

    President of the El Hassan Science City
    President of the Royal Scientific Society, Jordan

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    BOGYAY, Katalin

    resident of UNESCO’s General Conference
    President of UNESCO’s General Conference

    Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations, New York

    Former President of UNESCO 36th General Conference

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    BOKOVA, Irina

    Director General, UNESCO

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    BOULTON, Geoffrey 

    Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh
    Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

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    BURN, John

    Professor, Newcastle University, Human Variome Project

    Non-executive director of NHS England 

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    CAMPANA, Dominique

    Director of International Affairs, French national Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)

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    CAMPBELL, Philip

    Editor-in-Chief, Nature and the Nature-branded publications

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    COMPTON, Wilson

    Deputy Director, National Institute on Drog Abuse, United States

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    COOKSON, Clive

    Science Editor, Financial Times

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    DREVETS, Wayne C.

    Scientific Vice President, Disease Area Leader in Mood Disorders
    Neuroscience, Janssen Research & Development
    Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Inc.
    Professor (Adjunct), Laureate Institute for Brain Research

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    DUDLEY, John M.

    Steering Committee Chair, International Year of Light 2015

    Past-President, European Physical Society

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    ERGMA, Ene

    Professor of Astrophysics, Physics Department, Tartu University
    Former President of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament)
    Full member of International Academy of Astronautics

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    FLAIG, Axel

    Head of Research & Technology, Airbus, France

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    FREUND, Tamás

    Vice-President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Director, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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    GLUCKMAN, Peter

    Chief Science Advisor, New Zealand

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    GONZALEZ, Jean-Paul

    Sr. Scientist, EID & BSS, Metabiota Inc.

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    HALAS, Naomi J.

    Founding director of Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University

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    HARTUNG, Thomas

    Director, Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

    Professor, Evidence Based Toxicology
    Joint Appointment: Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology


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    HIGGINS, Julia

    Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College

    Former Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society

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    HILL, Sean

    Co-Director of the Blue Brain Project and co-Director of Neuroinformatics in the European Union funded Human Brain Project (HBP)

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    Holt, Rush D.

    Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science

     

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    HRYNEVYCH, Liliia

    Chairperson, Committee on Science and Education, Parliament of Ukraine

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    HURTADO, Jesús

    Member of the Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, Congress of the Republic of Peru

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    KAZATCHKINE, Michel

    UN Secretary­‐General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

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    KINDERLERER, Julian 

    President of the European Group on Ethics in science and new technologies (EGE)

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    KOIKE, Toshio

    Executive Director of Earth Observation Data and Information Fuison Research Inititative, University of Tokyo

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    KOLMOS, Anette

    Professor in Engineering Education and PBL,
    Director for the UNESCO Aalborg Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Science and Sustainability (Denmark)

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    KONTE, Almamy

    African Observatory on STI (AOSTI), Equatorial Guinea

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    KRSTIĆ, Snežana

    Independent researcher and consultant, Chair of the Board, Marie Curie Alumni Association

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    LECHNER, Stephan

    Director, Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen (IPSC) at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC)

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    LEE, Yee Cheong

    Chairman of the International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation

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    LESHNER, Alan I.

    Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, AAAS

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    LLEWELLYN SMITH, Chris

    Director of Energy Research, Oxford University, President SESAME Council

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    LOMBORG, Bjørn

    Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center

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    LORA-TAMAYO, Emilio

    President of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Vice-President of Science Europe

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    LOVÁSZ, László

    President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    President, World Science Forum 


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    LOZANO, Andres M.

    University Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto. 

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    MALAVASI, Aldo

    Deputy Director General of the IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency, UN

    Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, Austria

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    MARÍN, Cipriano

    Secretary General of the UNESCO Centre in the Canary Islands, UNESCOCAN

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    McBean, Gordon

    President, ICSU

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    MCGLADE, Jacqueline

    Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme

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    MCGRATH, Matt

    Environment correspondent, BBC News

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    MOULINE, Saïd

    Chief Executive Officer, National Agency for Development of Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency (ADEREE), Morocco

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    MUKAZIBERA, Agnes

    Chairperson of the Committee on Science, Technology, Education, Culture and Youth, Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of Rwanda 

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    MURENZI, Romain

    Executive Director, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

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    NALECZ, Maciej

    Director, Division of Science policy and Capacity Building, UNESCO

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    OKEKE, Francisca

    Professor, University of Nigeria

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    OMI, Koji

    Founder and Chairman, STS Forum

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    ONISHI, Takashi

    President, Science Council of Japan (SCJ)

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    PÁLINKÁS, József

    President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary

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    PANDOR, Naledi

    Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa

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    PÁSZTOR, János

    Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations, New York

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    PETCHARABURANIN, Ninlawan

    Advisor for the Committee on Science and Technology, National Legislative Assembly, Thailand

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    POSYSAEV, Yury

    Executive Director, International Sustainable Energy Development Centre under the auspices of UNESCO

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    PUGET, Jean-Loup

    Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris Sud and CNRS

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    RÉTHELYI, Miklós

    President, Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO

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    ROMERO, Hugo

    Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile

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    RÜBIG, Paul

    Chair, Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA), European Parliament

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    SANDNER, Wolfgang

    Director General of ELI-DC International Association AISBL

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    SATTARI, Sorena

    Vice-President for Science and Technology, Islamic Republic of Iran

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    SAYERS, Zehra

    Director, Foundation Development Program, Sabanci University and Chair, SESAME Scientific Advisory Committee

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    SCHLEGEL, Flavia

    Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO

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    SCHOPPER, Herwig

    Former DG of CERN

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    SINDI, Hayat

    Founder and CEO of i2 Institute for imagination and ingenuity

    Member of the Advisory Board of the UN Secretary-General

    UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for science education in the Middle East

    Member of the consultative assembly of Saudi Arabia

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    ŠUCHA, Vladimir

    Director-General of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

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    TUREKIAN, Vaughan C.

    Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State

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    YANG, Huanming

    Professor & Chairman, BGI-China, Shenzhen

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    YAP, Michelle

    Senior Assistant Director, Singapore Government, Ministry of Home Affairs, S&T Assessment Taskforce, Office of the Chief Science and Technology Officer

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    ZAKRI, Abdul Hamid

    Science Adviser to the Prime Minister of Malaysia; Chair, IPBES

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    ZIEGLER, Günter M.

    Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

     

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