Professor John Wood CBE FREng, Chair, European Research Area Board; Senior International Advisor, Imperial College London
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Professor John Wood CBE, FREng is currently senior international relations adviser at Imperial College London. He has doctorates from Cambridge and Sheffield Universities. He has held academic posts at several universities prior to Imperial College. He was Dean of Engineering at Nottingham and Principal of Engineering at Imperial before taking up his present post. From 2001-2007 he was seconded to the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils as Chief Executive where he was responsible for the Rutherford-Appleton and Daresbury Laboratories in addition to shareholdings in ESRF, ILL and the Diamond Light Source. He is a non-executive director of a number of companies including Bio-Nano Consulting and sits on the advisory board of the British Library. Currently he is on the board of the Joint Information Services Committee responsible for the UK academic computing network and chairs their Support for Research Committee. He was a founder member of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure and became chair in 2004 where he was responsible for the first European Roadmap. In 2008 he became the first chair of the European Research Area Board. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1999 and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2007 for "services to science." His academic research focused on the processing of new materials where he has published over 240 papers and named on 17 patents.
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Dr. Roland Schenkel, Director-General of the Joint Research Centre, European Commission
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Dr. Roland Schenkel studied physics at the Technical University in Karlsruhe. After his post-doctorate at the Centre d’Etude Nucléaires (CEA) in Grenoble in 1977, he was employed at a Company for Reprocessing of Nuclear Fuel in Karlsruhe. From 1979 to 1994 he worked at the Euratom Safeguards Office of the European Commission in Luxembourg. Continuing in the European Commission, in 1994 he joined the Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Karlsruhe. In 2000 he became Director of the ITU. In June 2002 he moved to Brussels as Deputy Director General of the Joint Research Centre (JRC). Since November 2005 he is Director General of the JRC. He was awarded a Doctor honoris causa by the Russian Academy of Science in 2002.
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Presentation: High-Tech Research - Importance and challenges for policy making
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Professor Marja Makarow, Chief Executive, European Science Foundation
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Professor Marja Makarow was appointed Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, from 1 January 2008 for a period of five years. Prior to this position she was Vice-Rector for Research of the University of Helsinki, and is Professor of Applied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, also at the University of Helsinki.
Marja Makarow is an advisor to the Finnish Government as a member of the National Council for Science and Technology Policy. She has contributed to science policy through the Academy of Finland, serving on a number of its committees, most recently for impact analysis and foresight of public research funding. She has been a member of a number of committees dealing with research, researchers’ careers, infrastructure, innovation and technology transfer at the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Trade and Commerce in Finland, and at the European level. Her responsibilities at the international level include the Presidency of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC/EMBO) from 2004 to 2007.
Marja Makarow has worked with the League of European Research Universities (LERU, 20 universities selected on the basis of quality of research) on science policy and university issues, and with the European University Association (EUA) to develop best practices in doctoral training. She has been a member, and Chair in 2007, of the Life Science Panel of the EURYI programme managed by the European Science Foundation, and evaluator of the Starting Grants scheme of the European Research Council. In 2005 she was evaluator of the European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) programme. She chairs the International Award Selection Committee of the world’s largest technology prize, the Millennium Technology Prize for ground-breaking innovation and sustainable development.
Marja Makarow is the recipient of a number of awards, honours and decorations, and has published widely in reputed scientific journals.
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Presentation: Collaborative European research
Considering the challenges of streamlining research and ensuring that the needs of society are better aligned to research outcomes. What are the main priorities for Europe in terms of building on strengths in science and research and creating the best research conditions for addressing the grand challenges such as climate change, disease and aging populations?
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Asger Kej, Chief Executive Officer of DHI Group (Approved Technological Service Institute)
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Asger Kej is the Chief Executive Officer of DHI (formerly Danish Hydraulic Institute), an independent and international research organisation approved as an authorised Technological Service Institute by the Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation. DHI develops and disseminates knowledge and technology within the areas of water, environment and health. DHI has a staff of 900, including 550 in 25 international offices.
Mr. Kej has a professional background in numerical modelling of flows and ecology in rivers and coastal waters. He graduated from the Technical University of Denmark in 1974 with majors in hydraulics and environmental engineering. He has worked first as a research engineer, and from 1980 as manager of DHI’s R&D programmes. From 1983 through 1988 he was Head of DHI’s Computational Hydraulics Centre. In 1988 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute, and in 1996 he was appointed Managing Director.
He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of DHI’s 25 subsidiary companies, member of the Boards of Trustees of two CGIAR research centres: the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the World Fish Centre in Penang, Malaysia. He has served on numerous other boards, committees and councils, including the Danish Industry Climate Council (200-09) and the Danish Technical Research Council (1995-98). He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, where he currently serves as a member of the Think Tank on future technologies.
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Presentation: International knowledge dissemination and technology based innovations
Innovation is a core strategy in coping with the global climate challenges facing society. In the Danish national innovations system the nine approved technological service institutes (GTS) are core innovation drivers and cutting edge knowledge disseminators. For many years the institutes have focused on clean-tech and sustainable energy in stimulating SME innovation. This has been a successful strategy but the challenges we are facing now call for broadened international perspective and cooperation.
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Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Director, Health Directorate, DG Research, European Commission
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Previously Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, MD, PhD served as the Vice President of Research at VGX Pharmaceuticals and VGX Animal Health (ADViSYS). With 15 years of experience, she is recognised as a global leader in the field of DNA delivery for therapeutic and vaccination applications.
Dr. Draghia’s research activities have focused on plasmid design, gene expression and tissue-specific promoter/enhancer fragments and DNA sequences that allow for the efficient expression of either secreted or intracellular proteins for gene therapy and vaccination.
Throughout her career, Dr. Draghia has published numerous scientific papers and reviews in the areas of electroporation, plasmid components, growth and development, immune stimulation, health, and well-being. Dr. Draghia-Akli also served as an ad hoc reviewer for granting agencies, such as the European Union, USDA and NIH, annual meeting for gene therapy and endocrinology societies, and has produced manuscripts for numerous journals.
Dr. Draghia received an M.D. from Carol Davilla Medical School and a Ph.D. in human genetics from the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences. Dr. Draghia also completed a doctoral fellowship at the University of Rene Descartes in Paris and a post-doctoral training at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, and served as faculty at BCM.
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Presentation: Supporting Innovative Health Research
Framework Programme Seven (2007-2013) has a budget of €6.1bn to support co-operative research in the field of Health. Current and future FP7 priorities will enhance innovation in health research, including support to SME's. Experience with the public-private joint technology initiative for Innovative Medicines, which explores new approaches to modernise drug development, will be presented.
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Andreu Mas-Colell, Secretary General of the European Research Council
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Andreu Mas-Colell is Secretary General of the ERC. Formerly, he was a Professor of Economics (Catedrático) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain and Chairman of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He was also Professor of Economics at Harvard University (1981-96) and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley (1972-80). Professor Mas-Colell is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was its President in 1993. In 1997 he was elected Foreign Associate to the US National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. He has served as main Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Economics 1985-88), and of Econometrica (1988-92). From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association. In the year 2006 he served as President of the European Economic Association. From 2000 to 2003 he was Minister for Universities and Research of the Government of Catalonia and President of the Advisory Scientific Committee of Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (2005-2008). He has been Sloan Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow. He holds Honoris Causa Doctorates from the universities of Alacant, Toulouse, HEC (Paris) and Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). He has received the Rey Juan Carlos I Prize in Economics and the Pascual Madoz (National Research Prize).
A. Mas-Colell has written more than 100 research papers on subjects ranging from abstract general equilibrium theory and the structure of financial markets to pricing policy for public firms. He is the author of The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium: A Differentiable Approach (Cambridge University Press, 1985) and co-author with M. Whinston and J. Green, of the graduate textbook Microeconomic Theory (Oxford University Press, 1994).
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Presentation: Basic Research and Innovation: The ERC Approach
Ensuring that Europe is a centre for world-leading knowledge-based research innovation. What challenges must be addressed in order to better support the needs of science in Europe? Looking at the long-term vision, quality education and the role of the European Research Council in facilitating a better research environment for Europe.
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Professor Dominique Foray, Chairman of Knowledge for Growth Group
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Prof. Dominique Foray is the Director of the "Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation". He is currently chairman of the expert group "Knowledge for Growth", a group of prominent economists created to advise Commissioner J. Potocnik (European Commission, DG research). He is also a member of the National Research Council (Switzerland), the Advisory Board of the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council. He serves as the 2009-President of the EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property - www.epip.eu) association.
Between 2004 and 2008 Prof. Foray was the Dean of the "Collège du Management de la Technologie". Before joining EPFL, he was a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a Professor at the Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l'Innovation (IMRI) of the University of Paris-Dauphine (from 1993 to 2000); he was then a Principal Analyst at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2000 to 2004. Prof. Foray received his PhD in 1984 and his "habilitation" in 1992 from the University Lumière of Lyon. He received the distinction of outstanding research in 1995 (médaille du CNRS).
Prof. Foray research interests include all topics and issues related to the economics and management of technology, knowledge and innovation at both the micro and macro levels. This broad field covers the economics of science and technology with a particular focus on high tech sectors, the management of large-scale technological projects, international comparisons of institutions, and systems of innovation within the context of the new economy. Intellectual property and competition policies, information technology and the new economy, capital market and entrepreneurship, national systems of innovation are fields of high relevance for his research.
Prof. Foray is recognised as one of the leading academic experts in the economics of innovation and knowledge and economic policy implications of the new knowledge-based economy.
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Presentation: The role of the European Research Area
How can Europe better exploit factors of productivity and stimulate the levels of entrepreneurship to ensure that the right specialisations are made in the right regions of Europe? How do we overcome both the scientific and the political challenges in order to achieve the key objectives set out in enhancing innovation and ultimately the success of science and research in Europe?
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Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (1957, Belgium), has a Ph. D. in physics from the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), where he is professor of climatology and environmental sciences, and directs the Master programme in Science and Management of the Environment (www.uclouvain.be/cgse). He made his doctoral research in climatology at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, USA). He specialized in modelling climate and the climate effects of human activities, and has recently focused his research on the impacts of climate change and on integrated assessment modelling. He chairs the Energy & Climate Working Group of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development (www.cfdd.be).
Since 2002, he is member of the Bureau of the IPCC (www.ipcc.ch, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore), and has been elected Vice-chair of IPCC in 2008. In 2009, he was elected a Member of the Belgian Royal Academy. He has participated to a number of United Nations conferences on climate issues, as scientific advisor. Among other prizes, he received in 2006 the Energy and environment award from the International Polar Foundation, and the "Francqui Chair" from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 2007-2008. (web site: www.climate.be/vanyp ).
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Professor Enrique Fernandez, Chair Scientific Policy Committee (CERN)
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Enrique Fernández (Asturias, Spain, 1948) is Professor of Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and Chair of the Scientific Policy Committee of CERN. He holds a Dr. in Physics from the Univ. Complutense de Madrid (1976) and a PhD from Purdue University (Indiana, USA, 1979). He has been doing research in experimental particle physics in the USA (from 1974 to 1985), Europe (since 1985) and Japan (2002-2006), and in particle astrophysics since the year 2000. He has been heavily involved in international research coordination, through the participation in several scientific committees, among them the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA; President, 1996-1998), the Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitation International Committee (PANAGIC; Chair, 2005-2007), and the Peer Review Committee of the Astroparticle Physics European Coordinating Committee (ApPEC; member 2000-2008). He founded the Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) in 1991 (supported by the regional Government of Catalonia) and was his Director until 2008. He is a Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
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Professor Deliang Chen, Executive Director, International Council for Science
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Professor Deliang Chen is the Executive Director of The International Council for Science (ICSU). He held a Professorship in Physical Meteorology and the August Röhss Chair in Physical Geography at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden before joining ICSU in January 2009. Formerly he also acted as Director of the Gothenburg Atmospheric Sciences Centre in Sweden, and Science Director of the Beijing Climate Centre. In addition, he has served on numerous international and national committees and boards. He is an internationally renowned climate researcher and he has made an important contribution to the understanding of regional climate changes in Sweden and China. Over the last 10 years, he coordinated and participated in more than 20 significant international and national research projects, and published more than 110 scientific papers in refereed journals and books, including contributions to the IPCC Assessment Report. He also served as an editor on several scientific journals.
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Professor Joep P.M. Geraedts, Chairman, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
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Professor Joep P.M. Geraedts was born in 1948. He studied general biology at the Catholic University in Nijmegen and received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 1969 and 1972 respectively. In 1975 he obtained a PhD from the University of Leiden. In October 1982 he was appointed full professor of genetics and cell biology at the Maastricht University. Furthermore he is head of the Dept. of Clinical Genetics of the University Hospital Maastricht, which has the only PGD license in the Netherlands.
The research of Joep Geraedts is aimed at various aspects of clinical and reproductive genetics. He is author, co-author or editor of many articles, books and chapters in books. Joep Geraedts has served as chairman of the Dutch Society of Human Genetics and is chairman of the Society of Dutch Clinical Genetics Centres and of ESHRE, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Furthermore he is associate editor or member of advisory and editorial boards of other scientific societies and journals.
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Dr. Peter Tindemans, Convenor – Science Policy Working Group, EUROSCIENCE, Board member of Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE)
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Peter Tindemans, PhD theoretical physics Leiden University 1975, switched to science policy. Responsible for coordinating the first comprehensive Dutch Innovation Policy in 1979. From 1991 till 1998 leading overall Research and Science Policy in the Netherlands. Involved in key European initiatives such as EUREKA (member High Level Group), COSINE for establishing the first pan-European data networking backbone (chair Policy Group) and global efforts such as the OECD Megascience Forum (chair 1992-1999). Since 1999 independent consultant, working with World Bank, UNESCO and governments in Africa, Latin and Central America, and Asia on Science, Technology and Innovation Policies; with regional governments, universities and companies in Europe on regional innovation policies including open innovation campuses; chair European Spallation Source (1,4 B€ neutron facility). On a global (rapporteur-general World Conference on Science, UNESCO-ICSU) and European level (EUROHORCS-Ministerial conferences on EU vs national STI policies) heavily involved in future STI policies. As chair responsible for merger of all major Dutch natural history collections into top-5 museum and Research Centre of Excellence in Biodiversity.
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