Programme

Moderator:

• Matthew DiFranco, Chair, Marie Curie Alumni Association

Speakers:

• Nehama Lewis Persky, Board Member, Marie Curie Alumni Association
• Gábor Kismihók, Chair, Research Funding WG, MCAA, Marie Curie Alumni Association
• Murat Güneş, Secretary, Marie Curie Alumni Association
• Zsofia Buttel, Board Member, Marie Curie Alumni Association
• Mostafa Moonir Shawrav, Vice-Chair, Marie Curie Alumni Association

Moderator:

• Marion Schulte zu Berge, Managing Director, Die Junge Akademie

Speakers:

• Michael Saliba, Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt, Junge Akademie, Global Young Academy
• Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, , Central European University
• Tolullah Oni, Immediate Past Co-Chair 2019/20, Global Young Academy

Moderator:

• Luc Allemand, Founder, Afriscitech

Speakers:

• Stephanie Ajwan'g, Founder, Under the Microscope
• Babusa Hamisi, Head of Teaching Programmes and Publications Section and Lecturer of Kiswahili and Language Education, Kenyatta University
• Anthony Maples, Theater Director, Pandemonia Science Theatre
• Lea Witmondt, Business director, Pandemonia Science Theatre
• Bafedile Kgwadi, Project Coordinator, South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA)

Co-Moderators:

• Kathy Whaler, President, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
• Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Secretary and Member of the Governing Board, International Science Council

Speakers:

• László Csaba Szarka, Chair, Eötvös 100 Coordination Team
• Jenő Sólyom, President, Eötvös Loránd Physical Society
• Zsolt Regály, Senior Researcher, MTA CSFK Konkoly Observatory
• Lajos Völgyesi, Research Professor, Budapest Technical University
• Gábor Dávid, Senior Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Speakers:

• Rasmus Bertelsen, Professor of Northern Studies, Barents Chair in Politics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
• Thierry Courvoisier, President, European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC)
• Judit Hidasi, Professor emerita / Doctoral School of Entrepreneurship and Business, Budapest Business School/University of Applied Sciences

Moderator and speaker:

• Angela Liberatore, Head of Social Sciences and Humanities Unit, European Research Council

Speakers:

• Agnes-Melinda Kovacs, Associate Professor, Central European University
• Jason Reifler, Professor of Political Science, University of Exeter

Speakers:

• Shunsuke Managi, Member, Young Academy of Japan(SCJ)
• Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Vice-President for International Activities, Science Council of Japan (SCJ)
• Nina Yasuda, Secretary, Sub-Committee of International Activities, Young Academy of Japan(SCJ)
• Akihiro Kishimura, Chair, Young Academy of Japan(SCJ) / Member, Global Young Academy, Young Academy of Japan(SCJ) / Global Young Academy
• Michael Saliba, Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt, Junge Akademie, Global Young Academy
• Wibool Piyawattanametha, Director, Advanced Imaging Research Center, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand & Adjunct Professor, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, USA & Founder, DeepPap, Inc.

Moderator:

• Volker ter Meulen, President, IAP

Speakers:

• Robin Fears, Biosciences Programme Director, EASAC
• Sheryl Hendriks, Head of Department, University of Pretoria, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development

Panellists:

• Anet Režek Jambrak, Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology
• Ervin Balázs, General Director, Centre for Agricultural Research

Moderator (confirmed):

• Bart Kolodziejczyk, Managing Director, Scientists in Residence Ltd.

Speakers (confirmed):

• Alexander Kagansky, Director, Centre for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia
• Abhi Veerakumarasivam, Co-Chair & Professor, ASEAN Young Scientists Network & Sunway University
• Clarissa Jazmin Rios Rojas, PhD in Molecular Biology / Founder and Director at NGO, Global Young Academy/Ekpa'palek
• Sandra Lopez-Verges, Member of the Executive Committee, Global Young Academy

Moderator (confirmed):

• Her Royal Highness Sumaya bint El Hassan, President, Royal Scientific Society of Jordan (RSS)

Opening Speaker (confirmed):

• Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary, The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

Speakers (confirmed):

• Flavia Schlegel, Special Envoy for Science in Global Policy, International Science Council
• Jonathan Forman, Science Policy Adviser and Secretary to Scientific Advisory Board, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
• Indira Nath, Professor, Indian Academy of Sciences
• Tolullah Oni, Immediate Past Co-Chair 2019/20, Global Young Academy

Moderator (confirmed):

• Koen Vermeir, Co-Chair, Global Young Academy

Speakers (confirmed):

• Eeva Hellström, Senior Lead on Strategy & Foresight, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
• Shoji Komai, Associate Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Techonology
• Connie Nshemereirwe, Co-Chair 2018/2020, Global Young Academy (GYA)
• David Mair, Head of Unit H1: Knowledge for Policy (Concepts and Methods), Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Moderator (confirmed):

• Maria Filipa Ferraz de Oliveira, Head of the Ethics Sector , ERCEA

Speakers (confirmed):

• Jennifer Merchant, Full Professor, Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2
• Lluis Montoliu, Research scientist CSIC, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC)
• Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, Professor of Social & Medical Anthropology, University of Sussex
• Anna Veiga, Director, Barcelona Stem Cell Bank, Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona

Moderator (confirmed):

• Nazar Mohamed Hassan, Senior Science & Technology Regional Advisor, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States

Speakers (confirmed):

• Eeva Furman, Director, Environment Policy Centre of the Finnish Environment Institute
• Joshua Setipa, Managing Director, UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries
• Teresa Stoepler, Executive Director, InterAcademy Partnership for Policy (IAP)
• Javier García Martínez, President-elect, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
• Hazir Elhaj, TWAS fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sudan University of Science and Technology
• Heide Hackmann, CEO, International Science Council

Co-moderators:

• Elisa Reis, Vice-President, International Science Council
• Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Secretary and Member of the Governing Board, International Science Council

Speakers:

• Daya Reddy, President, International Science Council (ISC)
• Stéphanie Balme, Research Professor and Dean of the Undergraduate College, SciencesPo Paris
• Atish Dabholkar, Director, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
• Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of ERC, Chair of the Scientific Council, European Research Council (ERC)
• Elena Manaenkova, Deputy Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

Moderator (confirmed):

• Tolullah Oni, Immediate Past Co-Chair 2019/20, Global Young Academy

Speakers (confirmed):

• Heide Hackmann, CEO, International Science Council
• Antonio Andreu, Scientific Director, European Research Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS)
• David Mellor, Director of Policy Initiatives, Center for Open Science
• Marcos Regis da Silva, Executive Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
• Kostas Glinos, Head of Unit for Open Science, European Commission
• Ghaith Fariz, Director, UNESCO Regional Office for Science in the Arab States

Moderator (confirmed):

• April Tash, Programme Specialist - Lead for the Recommendation on Science, UNESCO

Speakers (confirmed):

• Iain Stewart, Head of External Relations, Communications, and Library Department (ERCL), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Maral Dadvar, Executive Committee Member, Global Young Academy (GYA)
• Simge Davulcu Menket, Junior Co-Chair, International Consortium of Research Staff Associations (ICORSA)
• Steffen Fritz, Earth Observation and Citizen Science (EOCS) Center Head and Acting Program Director of Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Faten Attig-Bahar, Member of the Executive Board, Young Earth System Scientists Community (YESS)
• Ola El Zein, Board Member of Arab World Association of Young Scientists (WAYS); Head of Medical Library and Lecturer, American University of Beirut (AUB)
• Rocky Skeef, Executive Director, Reviews and Evaluation (RE)/Project Office, National Research Foundation, South Africa

Moderator (confirmed):

• Atish Dabholkar, Director, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

Speakers (confirmed):

• Jana El-Baba, Programme Specialist, Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO Cairo Office
• Dorothy Gordon, Chair, Information for All Programme (IFAP), UNESCO
• Bunmi Banjo, Managing Director, Kuvora Inc.
• Stephanie Ajwan'g, Founder, Under the Microscope
• Lucilla Spini, Senior Science and Policy Officer, International Science Council (ISC)

Moderator (confirmed):

• Romain Murenzi, Executive Director, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

Speakers (confirmed):

• Aldo Stroebel, Executive Director Strategic Partnerships, National Research Foundation of South Africa
• Mucktarr Darboe, Director of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, the Gambia
• Tonya Blowers, Coordinator, Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
• L. Anathea Brooks, Senior Consultant, UNESCO

Moderator:

• Christiane Diehl, Executive Director, European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC)

Speakers:

• Sheryl Hendriks, Head of Department, University of Pretoria, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development
• Paulo Artaxo, Professor of Environmental Physics, Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo
• József Popp, University Professor, Dean, Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szent István University, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
• Robin Fears, Biosciences Programme Director, EASAC

Moderator (confirmed):

• Teresa Stoepler, Executive Director, InterAcademy Partnership for Policy (IAP)

Speakers (confirmed):

• Cary Funk, Director, science and society research, Pew Research Center
• Alexander Gerber, Programme Chair / Research Director, Rhine-Waal University / INSCICO
• Claudia Aradau, Professor of International Politics, King's College London
• Jason Reifler, Professor of Political Science, University of Exeter
• Sierd Cloetingh, President, Academia Europaea

Moderators (confirmed):

• Michele Zema, Executive Outreach Officer, International Union of Crystallography
• Michel Spiro, President Designate, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

Speakers (confirmed):

• Her Royal Highness Sumaya bint El Hassan, President, Royal Scientific Society of Jordan (RSS)
• Herwig Schopper, Former Director General, CERN
• Sekazi Mtingwa, Chair of Executive Committee, LAAAMP (Lightsources for Africa, the Americas, Asia and Middle East Project) Executive Committee
• Atish Dabholkar, Director, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
• Sanja Damjanovic, Minister of Science, Government of Montenegro

Moderator (confirmed):

• Elizabeth Pollitzer, Director, Portia

Speakers (confirmed):

• Astrid Linder, Research Director of Traffic Safety, The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Aldo Stroebel, Executive Director Strategic Partnerships, National Research Foundation of South Africa
• Magdalena Skipper, Editor in Chief, Nature
• Miyoko Watanabe, Executive Director, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Moderator:

• Volker ter Meulen, President, IAP

Speaker:

• Robin Fears, Biosciences Programme Director, EASAC
• Thomas Schinko, Research Scholar, Risk and Resilience Programme, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Acting Programme Director Risk and Resilience, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Maria Nilsson, Associate Professor and Research fellow, Umeå University

Moderator (confirmed):

• László Kiss, Director General, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences

Speakers (confirmed):

• Giovanna Tinetti, Professor of Astrophysics, University College London, Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences, Dept of Physics & Astronomy
• Jack Lissauer, Space scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science & Astrobiology Division
• Christopher Broeg, Space scientist, University of Bern, Faculty of Science, Center for Space and Habitability (CSH)
• Szilárd Csizmadia, Researcher, German Aerospace Center, Institute for Planetary Research

Moderators (confirmed):

• Peter Vermij, Strategic Advisor, Bird's Eye Communications
• Kai Kupferschmidt, Freelance science writer, contributing correspondent for Science magazine, WFSJ

Moderator (confirmed):

• Miyoko Watanabe, Executive Director, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Lucilla Spini, Senior Science and Policy Officer, International Science Council (ISC)

Speakers (confirmed):

• Bonginkosi Nzimande, Minister, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
• Kinlay Tshering, Director, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture & Forests, Bhutan
• Koji Saeki, Senior Vice President, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Nathalie Fomproix, Executive Director, International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)

Moderator:

• Julia MacKenzie, Senior Director of International Affairs and Science Diplomacy, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Speaker:

• Margaret Vitullo, Deputy Director, American Sociological Association
• Teresa Stoepler, Executive Director, InterAcademy Partnership for Policy (IAP)
• Marco Perduca, International Coordinator, Associazione Luca Coscioni / Science for Democracy

Moderator (confirmed):

• Volker ter Meulen, President, IAP

Speakers (confirmed):

• Robin Fears, Biosciences Programme Director, EASAC
• Göran Hermerén, Professor, Lund University, Department of Medical Ethics, BioMedical Centre
• Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Emeritus research director; member of UMR 1027 Inserm/ Univ Toulouse 3, CNRS & University of Toulouse
• Balázs Sarkadi, Professor emeritus, Research Centre for Natural Sciences
• Beáta Sperlágh, Professor, Head of Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Experimental Medicine
• Elisa Corritore, Forum Policy Officer, Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM)

Moderator (confirmed):

• Ghaith Fariz, Director, UNESCO Regional Office for Science in the Arab States

Speakers (confirmed):

• Eliska Tomalova, Head of Department, Department of European Studies, Charles University Prague
• Pauline Ravinet, Assistant Professor, Vice-Rector for European Affairs, Université Lille
• Tim Flink, Assistant Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Grace Sirju-Charran, Vice Chairperson, COMEST, UNESCO
• Susana Vidal, Social Sciences Programme Specialist, UNESCO Regional Office, Montevideo