Joanna Chataway is Director of Innovation and Technology Policy at RAND Europe. She is also currently the Open University Co-Director of the ESRC INNOGEN research centre for social and economic research on life sciences innovation. Her experience and expertise includes analysis of the relationships between institutional, organisational and technological innovation. She has particular interests in health innovation policy, personalised/precision medicine, the pharmaceutical industry and global health, and has contributed to a number of reports, expert panels and consultations on changing models in research and development in pharmaceuticals, personalised medicine and e-health.

Joanna has also led research on agricultural innovation and sat on the UK Nuffield Bioethics Council Working Party on biofuels. She has carried out research, policy analysis and evaluation studies for a wide variety of clients, including The European Commission, Pfizer, Merck, the World Bank, DfID, Defra, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Wellcome Trust.


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Anne Glover was Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland from 2006-11. From January 2012, she joined the European Commission as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President. Anne holds a Personal Chair of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen and her current research focuses on the development and application of whole cell biosensors for environmental monitoring and investigating how organisms respond to stress at a cellular level.

She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Society of Biology, Royal Society of Arts and the American Academy of Microbiology.

Anne was recognised in March 2008 as a Woman of Outstanding Achievement in the UK and was awarded a CBE for services to Environmental Science in the Queen's New Year Honours List 2009.

Presentation: Examining the evidence: Discussing how science, engineering and technology can help shape EU policy and future prosperity

Europe has a huge opportunity to use science, technology and engineering as a source of economic recovery and to tackle the 21st Century challenges we face. An evidence-based approach to policy can help invent an exciting future for Europe. Delivering imaginative measures of success can inform a better understanding of risk versus reward and ensure mistakes are not repeated. Europe is well placed to drive innovation and change, with policy encouraging collaboration for a healthy, sustainable future. How will the Horizon 2020 programme transfer Europe's strong history of knowledge generation so that it has a greater impact to our economy and way of life?

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Martin Hynes BE, MBA, C.Eng., F.I.E.I., was appointed as Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation in 2011. Prior to this, he was Executive Director at The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET), which operates The Embark Initiative, a major national research funding initiative. Martin has a longstanding association with the ESF, having previously occupied the position of Chair of Finance and Audit Committee.

With a strong international profile and reputation, Martin was formerly Senior Science Advisor with the Science Foundation Ireland and a Senior Policy Analyst with Forfás, the national policy and advisory board for enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation. His experience lies in policy formulation and he has an excellent record of innovatively executing policy decisions. He has been instrumental in the formulation of major national funding initiatives supporting research in the ICT and biotechnology sectors. Martin also contributed to the formulation of first National Framework of Research Needs and won funding for the development of the National Metrology Laboratory.

An Engineering and MBA graduate, he has considerable commercial experience having mentored private sector start-ups during a three year period. He also worked for several years in product line management with Westinghouse Electric.

Presentation: Over the horizon: Looking ahead at what the next financial framework can deliver

The EU financial framework Horizon 2020 is set to launch first calls in January 2014 with the aim of making Europe a world-class science performer and to remove the obstacles to innovation. Does the initiative offer anything new and do we know which types of investment are more likely to foster success?

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Born in 1958 in Canada, Donald Dingwell received his BSc (1980) in Geology/Geophysics from the Memorial University of Newfoundland and his PhD in Geology from the University of Alberta (1984). After two years as a Carnegie Research Fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and one on the faculty of the University of Toronto, he was recruited to Germany as assistant to the director of the newly-founded Bavarian Geo-institute. There he obtained his Venia Legendi in Geochemistry in 1992. In 2000 he was called to the Chair in Mineralogy and Petrology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich where he currently has a research professorship in Experimental Volcanology.

Don's principal research interest is the physico-chemical description of molten rocks and their impact on volcanic systems. His research work has been supported by grants from the ERC, Carnegie Institution, NSERC, German Research Society (DFG), Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, European Commission, NATO, and several other research agencies as well as selected industries.

The fruits of that research (ca. 300 articles and over 7,000 citations) have been recognised by scientific awards and fellowships of the German Mineralogical Society (DMG), the German Research Society (DFG) the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and the Institute of Scientific Information (Highly Cited researcher). He is an elected member and Chair of the section of Earth and Cosmic Sciences of the Academia Europaea, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

Don has participated in teaching in five universities, three countries and two languages. He has been highly active in the proliferation and support of science and science awareness within national and international scientific societies. He has held office within several academic and professional societies and currently serves as the President of the European Geoscience Union.

Presentation: Frontiers and horizons: How the European Research Council is developing successful strategies for frontier research and what the new EU Research Framework will mean for the ERC

The ERC has rightly been recognised as a crucial player in helping to strengthen and shape the European research and innovation system. The focus on the highest quality research and a bottom-up approach has allowed researchers a greater degree of flexibility and ensured research has followed new promising areas and discoveries.

What is limiting Europe from reaching its full potentia? Will the new framework programme address the barriers to successful strategies?

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Ken Guy is Head of the Science and Technology Policy Division of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. He leads the OECD's work on science and technology policy and provides support for the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP) and its subsidiary bodies.

Ken has over 30 years' experience in the field of science, technology and innovation policies, as well as extensive expertise in providing high-level advice to policymakers and in assessing STI policies. He has held a wide range of positions, including Senior Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University.

Ken was chairman and author of the Expert Group responsible for the report that underpinned the European Commission's Action Plan for Investing in Research, a member of the UK's academic panel advising the government on its Innovation Review, a visiting scientist at the European Commission's Institute for Perspective Technological Studies (IPTS) and a member of the European Commission's Task Force responsible for the recent Innovation Union Communication. Ken has also founded two innovation policy consultancies, notably Technolopolis Ltd, which is recognised as a leader in its field.

He holds a Master's degree in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Manchester, and another in Natural Sciences from Selwyn College, University of Cambridge.

Presentation: Out of the Eurozone crisis and towards economic growth: Can Science and Technology really solve Europe's problems?

What are the strategies and policy frameworks that can promote new growth opportunities based on innovation and knowledge?

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Philip McCann is Special Adviser to Johannes Hahn, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, 2010-2013.

Philip holds The University of Groningen Endowed Chair of Economic Geography and is one of the world's most highly cited spatial economists and economic geographers of his generation. He has won academic awards for his research in several countries, and has been an invited keynote speaker in over 100 conferences in 23 countries. He is currently co-editor of papers in regional science and spatial economic analysis, and editor of the Edward Elgar Book Series New Horizons in Regional Science.

Philip is also the author of Urban and Regional Economics, 2001, Oxford University Press, which is currently being used in over 20 countries, and is globally the best selling book in the field. The book has been translated into Greek, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. A new version is forthcoming in 2012. In addition, two of Philip McCann's other books have also been translated into Japanese.

As well as the European Commission, Philip also advises various directorates within the OECD, and is a member of the IPPR North of England Economic Futures Commission. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at University of Waikato in New Zealand, and a former professor of Urban and Regional Economics at the University of Reading.


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Richard Tuffs has been Director of the European Regions Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN) since October 2010. Founded in 2001, ERRIN is a unique platform of more than 90 dynamic members, mainly EU regions and their Brussels representation offices. ERRIN promotes knowledge exchange, joint actions and project partnerships between its members in order to strengthen regional research and innovation capacities and contribute to achieving the goals of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the Innovation Union flagship initiative and Smart Specialisation.

Richard is a member of the Smart Specialisation Mirror Group.

Richard started his career in town planning but then moved into language and communications training in Paris. He returned to the UK to complete a Master's in Applied Linguistics and then returned to mainland Europe to the Free University of Brussels (ULB). He took up the post of Coordinator of the UK Open University Brussels Office. He then worked for two regional offices in Brussels at a senior level before becoming the Director of ERRIN.

With his strong experience of EU research and innovation policy, cohesion policy, smart specialisation and lifelong learning policy, Richard is often called on to represent the regional dimension in discussions on these topics, as well as moderating conferences and seminars.


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Christopher John Hull is Secretary General of EARTO, the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations.

During the past 25 years he has specialised in European innovation, technology transfer and R&D policies. He has worked, inter alia, as an expert for the European Commission and served as Secretary General of three European trade associations in these areas: TII, FEICRO, and now EARTO.

In an earlier career (1974-1986) he worked on the design and evaluation of public programmes in the fields of regional economic development, employment, and small firms.

He has recently been Chairman of DG Research's Expert Advisory Group on SMEs and was a member of Commissioner Potoènik's Sounding Board for Smaller Framework Programme Actors.


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Since July 2009, Kurt Deketelaere has been the Secretary-General of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), an association of 21 leading research-intensive universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Leiden, Leuven, Heidelberg, etc.).

Before joining LERU, he was the Chief Legal Advisor (2004-2007) and the Chief of Staff (2007-2009) of the Flemish Ministery for Public Works, Energy, Environment and Nature. He is also a professor of law (however, on part-time leave since 2007) at the University of Leuven, the university where he studied law (1984-1989), obtained his PhD in Law (1989-1995) and has spent (until now) his whole academic career.

Kurt is an honorary professor of law at the University of Dundee, and has been a visiting professor of law at the universities of London, Sydney and Singapore.

He has published extensively in the field of EU environmental, energy and climate change law, and is the editor of several leading book series and journals in that field. Kurt is on the board of a number of profit and non-profit organisations in Belgium, and chairs the Board of Directors of the Flemish Energy Regulator (VREG).


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