NGOME ABIAGA, Jean-Paul

Assisstant Programme Specialist,
International Basic Sciences Programme of UNESCO

CV

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

CV

GOLOMBEK, Diego

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

CV

BAMMOUN, Aicha

ISESCO Directorate, Rabat, Morocco

CV

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

CV

BADRAWI, Hossam

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

CV

MIGNONE, Claudia

Astrophysicist, Science Writer and Communicator, Amsterdam

CV

LEE, Fook Kay

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

CV

TÖRÖK, Ádám

Secretary-General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

CV

RAKHMANIN, Vladimir Olegovich

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

CV

HACKMANN, Heide

Executive Director, International Council for Science (ICSU)

CV

DAJANI, RANA

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

CV

CUNNIGHAM, Patrick

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

Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Irish Government

CV

NAVRACSICS, Tibor

EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport

CV

ORBÁN, Viktor

Prime Minister, Hungary

CV

THALER György

Development Director, Gedeon Richter Plc

CV

SHAMIR, Uri

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

CV

ÁDER, János

President of Hungary

CV

AMANO, Hiroshi

Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics

Professor, Nagoya University (Japan)

CV

BAKER, Mary

Immediate Past President, European Federation of Neurological Associations

CV

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’.

CV

BENCHIKH, Osman

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

CV

BINT EL HASSAN, Sumaya

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

CV

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

CV

BOKOVA, Irina

Director General, UNESCO

CV

BOULTON, Geoffrey

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

CV

BURN, John

Professor, Newcastle University, Human Variome Project

Non-executive director of NHS England

CV

CAMPANA, Dominique

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

CV

CAMPBELL, Philip

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

CV

COMPTON, Wilson

Deputy Director, National Institute on Drog Abuse, United States

CV

COOKSON, Clive

Science Editor, Financial Times

CV

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

CV

DUDLEY, John M.

Steering Committee Chair, International Year of Light 2015

Past-President, European Physical Society

CV

ERGMA, Ene

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

CV

FLAIG, Axel

Head of Research & Technology, Airbus, France

CV

FREUND, Tamás

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

CV

GLUCKMAN, Peter

Chief Science Advisor, New Zealand

CV

GONZALEZ, Jean-Paul

Sr. Scientist, EID & BSS, Metabiota Inc.

CV

HALAS, Naomi J.

Founding director of Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University

CV

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

CV

HIGGINS, Julia

Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College

Former Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society

CV

HILL, Sean

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

CV

Holt, Rush D.

Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science

CV

HRYNEVYCH, Liliia

Chairperson, Committee on Science and Education, Parliament of Ukraine

CV

HURTADO, Jesús

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

CV

KAZATCHKINE, Michel

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

CV

KINDERLERER, Julian

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

CV

KOIKE, Toshio

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

CV

KOLMOS, Anette

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

CV

KONTE, Almamy

African Observatory on STI (AOSTI), Equatorial Guinea

CV

KRSTIĆ, Snežana

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

CV

LECHNER, Stephan

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

CV

LEE, Yee Cheong

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

CV

LESHNER, Alan I.

Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, AAAS

CV

LLEWELLYN SMITH, Chris

Director of Energy Research, Oxford University, President SESAME Council

CV

LOMBORG, Bjørn

Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center

CV

LORA-TAMAYO, Emilio

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

CV

LOVÁSZ, László

President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
President, World Science Forum

CV

LOZANO, Andres M.

University Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto.

CV

MALAVASI, Aldo

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

Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, Austria

CV

MARÍN, Cipriano

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

CV

McBean, Gordon

President, ICSU

CV

MCGLADE, Jacqueline

Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme

CV

MCGRATH, Matt

Environment correspondent, BBC News

CV

MOULINE, Saïd

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

CV

MUKAZIBERA, Agnes

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

CV

MURENZI, Romain

Executive Director, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

CV

NALECZ, Maciej

Director, Division of Science policy and Capacity Building, UNESCO

CV

OKEKE, Francisca

Professor, University of Nigeria

CV

OMI, Koji

Founder and Chairman, STS Forum

CV

ONISHI, Takashi

President, Science Council of Japan (SCJ)

CV

PÁLINKÁS, József

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

CV

PANDOR, Naledi

Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa

CV

PÁSZTOR, János

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

CV

PETCHARABURANIN, Ninlawan

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

CV

POSYSAEV, Yury

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

CV

PUGET, Jean-Loup

Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris Sud and CNRS

CV

RÉTHELYI, Miklós

President, Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO

CV

ROMERO, Hugo

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

CV

RÜBIG, Paul

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

CV

SANDNER, Wolfgang

Director General of ELI-DC International Association AISBL

CV

SATTARI, Sorena

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

CV

SAYERS, Zehra

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

CV

SCHLEGEL, Flavia

Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO

CV

SCHOPPER, Herwig

Former DG of CERN

CV

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

CV

ŠUCHA, Vladimir

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

CV

TUREKIAN, Vaughan C.

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

CV

YANG, Huanming

Professor & Chairman, BGI-China, Shenzhen

CV

YAP, Michelle

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

CV

ZAKRI, Abdul Hamid

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

CV

ZIEGLER, Günter M.

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

CV

Speakers

Chairs, plenary speakers, facilitators and thematic speakers