World Science Forum

Michael KEENAN

OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry

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Mandë Holford

Assistant Professor, CUNY-York College and the Graduate Center
Inaugural member, WAYS

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William COLGLAZIER

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

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Werner ARBER

Nobel Laureate

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Vilasrao DESHMUKH

Minister of Science & Technology, Minister of Earth Sciences, India

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Rémi BARRÉ

Researcher, National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, France

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Paul Rübig

Chairman, STOA - Science and Technology Options Assessment - European Parliament

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Patrick AMURIAT OBOI

Member, Parliament of Uganda

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Henry Roman

Chairman, WAYS Africa

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Attila HAVAS

Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Madiha Ahmed Al Shaibani

Minister of Education, Oman

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Julie Maxton

Executive Director, Royal Society

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Nebojsa NAKICENOVIC

Director, Global Energy Assessment

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Katalin BOGYAY

President, 36th General Conference of UNESCO
Hungarian Ambassador to UNESCO

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Fumiko Kasuga

Vice-President in charge of International Affairs, Science Council of Japan

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Won-Hoon PARK

President, Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA)

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BURTSCHER Wolfgang

Deputy Director General
DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

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Vijay Chandru

CEO, Strand Life Sciences, India

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Viktor Orbán

Prime Minister, Hungary

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Ulla Burchardt

Chair, Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, Bundestag, Germany

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Tom Wang

Director for International Cooperation, Deputy Director, Center for Science Diplomacy, AAAS

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Thorsten STORCK

Global Project Manager, BASF Plant Science Company, Germany

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Teboho Moja

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

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Tateo Arimoto

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)

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Stefan Michalowski

Executive Secretary, OECD Global Science Forum

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Sir Brian Hoskins

Director, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London

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Ruth Arnon

Wolf Prize Laureate, President, Israel Academy of Sciences

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Romain Murenzi

Executive Director, TWAS

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Raphaela Kitson-Pantano

Programme Director, Euroscience Open Forum

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Péter Csermely

President, Hungarian National Talent Support Council

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László Acsády

Head of Lab. of Thalamus Research, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Kimmo KASKI

Aalto University School of Science, Finland

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Jun XIA

President, International Water Resources Association (IWRA)

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John MARKS

Chair, ICSU Taskforce on Foresight

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John INGRAM

NERC Food Security Leader, Environmental Change Institute

Oxford University Centre for the Environment

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Humphrey Oborah

President, African Council for Gifted and Talented

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Guido CALDARELLI

IMT and ISC-CNR,

Lucca Italy

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Francois Taddei

Research Scientist and Founder of Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, France

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Eörs SZATHMÁRY

Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

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Ellen Hazelkorn

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

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Dionne Shepherd

Research Officer, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Daniel Hershkowitz

Minister of Science and Technology, Israel

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Balázs GULYÁS

Executive Director, World Science Forum

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Atta-ur-Rahman

President, Pakistan Academy of Sciences

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Albert László Barabási

Director, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University

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Ahmed MUKHTAR

Deputy Director General, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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Adnan Badran

Former Prime Minister of Jordan,

President of Petra University, Senator and Chair of Senate Committee on Science, Education and Culture

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Elibio Rech

Researcher, Genetics and Molecular Biology, EMBRAPA Recursos Geneticos e Biotecnologia, Brazil

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Tamás Vicsek

Professor of Physics, Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest

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Peter Tindemans

Founder Member of Euroscience

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Tomihiro Taniguchi

Executive Director, Japan STS Forum

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Bud Rock

CEO, Association of Science and Technology Centers

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Richard O'Kennedy

President, London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF)

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Paul Christou

Research Professor, University of Leida, Spain

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Cathleen A. Campbell

President & CEO, CRDF Global

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Françoise CAILLODS

Senior Managing Director
World Social Science Report (ISSC)

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Joshua Mandell

Science and Technology Program Officer, World Bank, STI Global Forum

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Alan I. Leshner

Chief Executive Officer, AAAS

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Ahmed Zewail

Nobel Laureate, California Institute of Technology

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Patrick Cunningham

Chief Science Advisor to the Irish Government

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Aloizio Mercadante

Minister of Science and Technology, Brazil

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Andrew Miller

Chairman, Science and Technology Committee, House of Commons, UK

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AnnaLee Saxenian

Dean, Berkeley School of Information, University of California, Berkeley

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Dominique Ristori

Director-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission

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Dong-Pil Min

Honorary Chairman, Seoul S&T Forum

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Gebisa Ejeta

2009 World Food Prize Laureate,

Science Envoy of President Barack Obama

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Gretchen Kalonji

Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO

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H. Jeff Kimble

Professor, California Institute of Technology

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Hans-Dieter Klenk

Institute for Virology, University of Marburg

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Hans-Georg Kräusslich

Director, Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg

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HRH Princess Sumaya bint el Hassan

President of the El Hassan Science City and the Royal Scientific Society

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Irina Bokova

Director General, UNESCO

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Jacob Palis

President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences

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Johan Rockström

Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute

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Kari Raivio

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Lidia Brito

Director, Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development, UNESCO

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József Pálinkás

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

Professor of physics, University of Debrecen (UD)

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Peter A. Singer

Professor, University of Toronto

Chief Executive Officer, Grand Challenges Canada

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Peter F. Zipfel

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

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Ricardo Hausmann

Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University

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Richard A. Mathies

Professor, University of California, Berkeley

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Roger N. Beachy

Wolf Prize Laureate, Former Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, US

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Sergio Machado Rezende

Former Minister of Science, Brazil

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Sir Brian Heap

President of European Academies Science Advisory Council and former Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society

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Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS

Chair, Royal Society Advisory Group on Global Science Report

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Stanislas Dehaene

Professor, College de France

Director, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit

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Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

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

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Vaughan Turekian

Chief International Officer, AAAS

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Vízi E. Szilveszter

Former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Volker ter Meulen

past president, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

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Yuan Tseh Lee

President, ICSU

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Speakers

Chairs, plenary speakers, facilitators and thematic speakers