Moderators
Director-General, European Commission - Joint Research Centre
Vladimir Šucha is Director-General of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, its in-house scientific service. He was Deputy Director-General of the JRC between 2012 and 2013. Prior to that, he spent 6 years in the position of director for culture and media in the Directorate-General...
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Speakers SA
African Union Commissioner for Human Resources, Science & Technology
Professor for Economic and Technological Change, Centre for Development Research
Prof. Joachim von Braun Joachim von Braun is Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn University, and Professor for economic and technological change. von Braun has a doctoral degree from University of Göttingen. His research is on economic development, science...
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Payne Distinguished Lecturer, Stanford Spogli Institute
Director, European Commission
Tassos Haniotis is Director for "Strategy, Simplification and Policy Analysis" (formerly "Economic Analysis, Perspectives and Evaluations; Communication") in the DG for Agriculture and Rural development of the European Commission. He has also held posts as Acting Director for Direct...
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Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Professor Jacqueline McGlade was appointed Chief Scientist at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in early 2014. She also holds the post of Professor in Environmental Informatics in the Department of Mathematics at University College London, from which she took leave to...
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