UNESCO HIGH PANEL ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT

** Attendees 15-16 September 2011

**Dr Atta-ur-Rahman President, Network of Academies of Science of Islamic Countries Distinguished National Professor of Chemistry, Karachi University Karachi, Pakistan

**Dr Susan Avery President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA, USA

**Dr Vijay Chandru Chief Executive Officer, Strand Life Sciences Bangalore, India

Sir Partha Dasgupta Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK

HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan President of the Royal Scientific Society Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

**HRH exceptionally to be replaced by Prof. Odeh Al-Jayyousi Vice-President of the Royal Scientific Society Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Dr Rolf Heuer Director-General, CERN Geneva, Switzerland

**Dr Sergei Kapitza Vice President, Academy of Natural Sciences, Russia Professor, Institute of Physics Moscow, Russia

Dr Gong Ke President, Nankai University Tianjin, China

**Prof. Dr Javier de Lucas Director, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris Paris, France

**Prof. Dr Wolfram Mauser Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences Munich Ludwig Maximilian University

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**Prof. Gordon McBean Department of Geography, Social Science Centre The University of Western Ontario London, ON, Canada

**Prof. Ahmadou Lamine N’Diaye President, African Academy of Sciences & President, National Academy of Science and Technology of Senegal Dakar, Senegal

Prof. Tebello Nyokong Department of Chemistry Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa

**Dr Oh Deog-Seong Secretary General, World Technopolis Association Professor, Chungnam National University Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Dr Jacob Palis President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

**Dr Indira Samarasekera President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada

Dr Christián Samper Director, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC, USA

**Dr José Sarukhán Kermez National Coordinator National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) México DF, México

Judge Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor International Court of Justice The Hague, The Netherlands

**Dr Olive Shisana Chief Executive Officer Human Sciences Research Council Cape Town, South Africa

**Prof. Tetsuo Shoji Professor, Fracture Research Institute Tohoku University

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**Dr Linda Smith Pro-Vice Chancellor, Maori The University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand

Prof. Ada Yonath Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professorial Chair Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Structural Biology Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel

Prof. Ahmed Zewail Linus Pauling Chair Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, USA

Moderator of the public panel discussions will be:

Prof. Dr. José Mariano Rebelo Pires Gago Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Particulas Former Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education Lisbon, Portugal

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