Moderated by Hossam Badrawi, Chairman Nile Badrawi Foundation for Education & Development, former Chairman of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research, Parliament of Egypt

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

Parallel Thematic Session II. A: "Fit for Purpose Global Health Policies"

Moderated by Dominique Leglu, editor-in-chief of Sciences et Avenir

Presentation of Wilson Compton, Deputy Director, National Institute on Drog Abuse, United States

Presentation of Jean-Paul Joseph Gonzalez, Sr. Scientist, EID & BSS, Metabiota Inc.

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

Presentation of Michel Kazatchkine, UN Secretary‐General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Presentation of Fook Kay Lee, Chief Science and Technology Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore

Presentation of György Thaler, Development Director, Gedeon Richter Plc

Parallel Thematic Session II. B: "Building Resilience in a Changing World"

Moderated by Heide Hackmann, Executive Director, International Council for Science (ICSU)

Introductory remarks of Gordon McBean, President, ICSU

Presentation of Eva Alisic, Co-Chair, Global Young Academy (GYA)

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

Presentation of Virginia Murray, Vice-Chair, UNISDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG)

Parallel Thematic Session II. C: "International Year of Light"

Moderated by John Dudley, Steering Committee Chair, International Year of Light 2015

Presentation of John Dudley, moderator of the session

Presentation of Claudia Mignone, Astrophysicist, Science Writer and Communicator, Amsterdam

Presentation of Wolfgang Sandner, Director General of ELI-DC International Association AISBL

Parallel Thematic Session III. A: "Renewable Energy for Global Sustainability"

Moderated by Osman Benchikh, Chief of Section, Innovation and Capacity Building in Science and Engineering, UNESCO

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

Presentation of Cipriano Marin, Secretary General of the UNESCO Centre in the Canary Islands, UNESCOCAN

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

Parallel Thematic Session III. B: "Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction"

Moderated by Toshio Koike, Executive Director of Earth Observation Data and Information Fuison Research Inititative, University of Tokyo

Moderator's Summary of Toshio Koike

Presentation of Paul Bates, Head of the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

Presentation of Susan L. Cutter, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina (presented in live on-line connection)

Presentation of Takashi Onishi, President, Science Council of Japan (SCJ)

Presentation of Hugo Romero, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile

Parallel Thematic Session III. C: "Science Governance in Africa: Challenges Opportunities"

Moderated by Mohamed Hassan, Co-Chair of IAP, the Global Network of Science Academies

Presentation of Almamy Konte, Senior Expert in Innovation Policy at the African Observatory for Science, Technology and Innovation (AOSTI) of the African Union Commission, Equatorial Guinea

Presentation of Francisca Okeke, Professor, University of Nigeria

Presentation of Henry Roman, Director, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa, Co-Chair of World Association of Young Scientists (WAYS)

Special Side Event

WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

Role of science in addressing challenges of global migration

Presentation of Ádám Török, Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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