Programme

Moderator:

• Lidia Brito, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

Speakers:

• Ana María Cetto, Professor, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Tamara Elzein, Secretary General, National Council for Scientific Research of Lebanon
• Quarraisha Abdool Karim, President, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
• Peggy Oti-Boateng, Executive Director, African Academy of Sciences

Rapporteur:

• István Hatvani, Senior Researcher, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research

Moderator:

• Paraskevi Stavrou, Senior Science Officer, Exec Sec Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science, International Science Council

Speakers:

• Asad Ramzanali, Special Assistant to the President; Chief of Staff and Deputy Director for Strategy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Patrick Caron, Senior Researcher, CIRAD
• Ruth Morgan, Professor, UCL Arista Institute, University College London
• Saini Yang , Executive Director, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)
• Gustavo Merino, Director for Social Policies, UNESCO, Social and Human Sciences Sector, Division for Social Policies

Rapporteur:

• Zsuzsa Kaló, Associate Professor, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Institute of Psychology

Moderator:

• Salim Abdool Karim , Director, CAPRISA

Speakers:

• Dr. Montira Pongsiri, Lead Advisor, Climate Change and Health, Save the Children
• Dr. Shouro Dasgupta, Environmental Economist, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
• Claudia Canales Holzeis, Chief Executive, The Kirkhouse Trust

Rapporteur:

• Ágnes Máté, Research Fellow, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Speakers:

• Thomas Hartung, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Science as a lifesaver in harms caused by drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
• Francesco Pettrucione, Professor of Quantum Computing and interim Director, National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS), Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Clarissa Rios Rojas, ISC fellow, International Science Council, Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
• Yanan Sui, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University

Moderator:

• Ana Persic, Programme specialist, UNESCO

Rapporteur:

• Bálint Hartmann, Senior Research Fellow, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Electric Power Engineering

Moderator:

• Hassan Masood, Senior Editor, Nature

Speakers:

• Chantal Line Carpentier, Head, Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Huadong Guo, Director-General, International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals
• Gustavo Merino, Director for Social Policies, UNESCO, Social and Human Sciences Sector, Division for Social Policies
• Sibel Eker, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Gábor Bartus, Secretary-General, Hungarian Council for Sustainable Development

Rapporteur:

• Gyöngyi Csongrádi, Associate Professor, Budapest Business University, Faculty of Finance and Accountancy

Keynote message:

• Helena Nader, President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences (BAS)

Moderator:

• Wim van Saarloos, President of EASAC, European Academies Science Advisory Council

Speakers:

• Rosa Castro, Programme Director, EASAC Biosciences and Public Health Programme
• Thomas Elmqvist, Programme Director, EASAC Environment Programme
• Zsolt Molnár, Team Leader, Scientific Advisor, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research
• Jason Jabbour , Senior Programme Coordinator, UNEP

Rapporteur:

• Gábor Kecskés, Associate Professor, Széchenyi István University

Moderator:

• Carlo D'Ippoliti, Professor of Political Economy, Sapienza University of Rome

Speakers:

• Lidia Borrell-Damián, Secretary General, Science Europe
• Nosisa Dube, Director, South Africa National Research Foundation
• Yensi Flores Bueso, Co-Chair, Global Young Academy
• Fang Xu, Professor, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Rapporteur:

• Ákos Lencsés, Member, Hungarian Young Academy

Moderator:

• Quarraisha Abdool Karim, President, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

Speakers:

• Anthony Clayton, Professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies
• Rana Dajani, Professor of molecular cell biology, The Hashemite University
• Peter McGrath, Coordinator, InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)
• Minyan Zhao, Program Manager, Associate Professor, The Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for the Belt and Road Regions (ANSO) Secretariat
• Professor Cliona Murphy, Professor in Science Education, Dublin City University

Rapporteur:

• Andrea Toldy, Full Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering