BRINGING TOGETHER MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PARTNERS TO TRANSLATE SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES INTO ACTIONABLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF CITIZENS BIOVISION SPEAKERS BIOVISION, the World Life Sciences Forum , brings together international decision makers from the academic, private sector, policy-making and civil society sectors to debate over the impact of the latest scientific advances on society. 2013 SPEAKERS* • Geneviève Fioraso (Minister for Higher Education and Research, France) • Marisol Touraine (Minister of Health and Social Affairs, France) • Awa-Marie Coll-Seck ( Health Minister, Senegal) • Carlos Gadelha (Secretary of State, Ministry of Health, Brazil) • Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor (Minister of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa) • Michele Bachelet (Former President, Republic of Chile; Executive Director, UN WOMEN) • Anne Glover (Chief Scientific Adviser to the President, European Commission) – Confirmed • Paul Rübig (President STOA, member of European Parliament) • Antonio Fernando Correia de Campos (Vice President, STOA, European Parliament) • John Beddington (Scientific Adviser, United Kingdom Government) • Oleg Chestnov (Assistant Director General, Non Communicable Diseases and Mental Health, WHO, Switzerland) • Kris Christen (Editor and writer, Artificial Retina Project, U.S. Department of Energy) • Gerald Dziekan (Head Safe Surgery, Pulse Oximetry, Care Checklists & AMR Programmes, HO Patient Safety, Switzerland) – Confirmed • Carissa F. Etienne (Assistant Director General, Health Systems and Services, WHO, Switzerland) • Keiji Fukuda (Assistant Director-General, Health Security and Environment, WHO, Switzerland) • Jorge Kalil (Director, Butantan Institute, Brazil) • Celso Lafer (President, FAPESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil) • Mauricio Lopes (General Director, EMBRAPA, Brazil) • Carlos Nobre (SEPED, Ministry of Science and technology, Brazil) • Helga Nowotny (President, European Research Council) - Confirmed • Peter Olesen (Chair, The Danish Research Council, Denmark) • Olivier Raynaud (World Economic Forum) BIOVISION, the World Life Sciences Forum Page 1 Last Updated: Oct 24, 2012 • Rajiv Shah (Administrator, USAID, USA) • Tanja Wolf (Technical officer, Climate change and health, WHO, Switzerland) • Edward Abrahams (President, Personalized Medicine Coalition, Washington, USA) - Confirmed • Cary Adams (Chair, NCD Alliance, Switzerland) - Confirmed • Janine Benyus (Biomimicry Institute, USA) • Jean-Pierre Blum (Information Systems International Institute and Telemedicine European Union, France) • Manuel Carballo (Executive Director, ICMHD, Switzerland) • Sushila Chang (Chair, ILSI Board of Trustees, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) – Confirmed • James Chau (Journalist, CCTV, People's Republic of China) • Clive Cookson (Science Editor, Financial Times) - Confirmed • Nancy Davenport-Ennis (CEO, National Patient Advocate Foundation, USA) - Confirmed • Hansi Dean (Director, New Alliances, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, USA) - Confirmed • Bill Drayton (CEO & Founder, Ashoka, USA) • Roger-Pol Droit (Sciences Politiques, Paris) • Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford University, USA) • Konstanze Frischen (Head, Social Business Platform and Ashoka Globalizer Program, USA) • Joanna Groves (CEO, IAPO, UK) • Margaret Hamburg (Commissioner, FDA, USA) • Ellen ‘t Hoen (Medicine Patent Pool, Switzerland) - Confirmed • Robert Hudson (President, ECPC, Germany) • Andrew Jack (Journalist, Financial Time) • Unni Karunakara (President, MSF International, Switzerland) • Hannah Kettler (Senior Program Officer, Global Health Office of the President, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA) • Raymond C. Kurzweil (Founder & Chairman, Foundation Kurzweil) • Benoît Miribel (President, Action contre la Faim, France) • Carlos Morel (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil) • Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré (Executive Director, The Roll-Back Malaria, Switzerland) • Robert Santoro (President, EsoCe Net ; Chair AMI Family of Communities, Italy) • Beverly Schwartz (Vice President of Global Marketing, Ashoka, USA) • Jack Sim (Founder, World Toilet Organization, Singapore) • Marc Van Amerigen (executive Director, GAIN, Switzerland) • Simon Wright (Head of Health Policy, Save the Children, UK) • Bruce Beutler (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2011, University of Texas, USA) – Confirmed • John Gurdon (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2012, University of Cambridge, UK) • Jules Hoffman (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2011, University of Strasbourg, France) – Confirmed • Jean Jouzel (Nobel Prize with IPCC 2007 ; LSCE, CEA, France) • Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987 ; University Louis Pasteur, France) • Richard Roberts (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1993, UK) BIOVISION, the World Life Sciences Forum Page 2 Last Updated: Oct 24, 2012 • Shinya Yamanaka (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2012, University of Kyoto, Japan) • Paul Allen (Founder, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA) • Charles Auffray (EISBM Founding Director) – Confirmed • Brigitte Autran (University Pierre et Marie Curie, France) • René Bally (Director, Research and Training Program, IRD, France) • Tim Benton (University of Cambridge, UK) • Aviv Bergman (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA) - Confirmed • Inger Björck (Applied Nutrition and Food chemistry, Lund University, Sweden) • David Blake (The brain and Behavior Discovery Institute, Georgia, USA) – Confirmed • Alexander Börve (Founder iDoc24; Västra Götaland Health Trust, Sweden) • Samir Brahmachari (Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, India) – Confirmed • Elisabeth Brambilla (Pierre Bonniot Institute, University of Grenoble, France) • Oliver Brüstle (Director, Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, University of Bonn, Germany) – Confirmed • Kane Cheikh (Scientist Coordinator, AMMA Project, France) • Larry Chu (Executive Director, Stanford Medicine X, University of Stanford, USA) • Grégoire Courtine (Director of Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland) - Confirmed • Hannelore Daniel (Molecular Nutrition Unit, Technische Universität München, Germany) – Confirmed • Andréa Dessen, (Research Director, University of Grenoble, France) - Confirmed • Nathalie Delzenne (Louvain Drug Research Institute, University of Louvain, Belgium) – Confirmed • Dusko Ehrlich (Coordinator MetaHIT project; INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France) • Jill Farrant (Molecular and Cell Biology Departement, Univesrity of Cape Town, South Africa) • Stephen Friend (President, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, USA) - Confirmed • Raghavendra Gadagkar (Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) - Confirmed • Takashi Gojobori (Director of Centre for Information Biology and DNA Database of Japan) - Confirmed • Yi-Ke Guo (Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK) - Confirmed • Dirk Haller (Technical University Munich, Germany) – Confirmed • Hans Rudolf Herren (Director General, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya) • Liselotte Højgaard (Chair of The European Medical Research Councils; Strasbourg; Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) – Confirmed • François Houllier (CEO, INRA, France) • Alejandro Jadad (Founder & Chief Innovator, Center for Global eHealth Innovation, University of Toronto, Canada) • Anna-Cecile Janssens (Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) – Confirmed • Sylvie Joussaume (LSCE, CEA, France) • Bente Klarlund Pedersen (Director of Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) – Confirmed • Steven Laureys (Head, Coma Science Group, University of Liège, Belgium) • Martine Laville (President, CENS, Lyon, France) – Confirmed • Bruno Lina (Director, Centre national de référence sur la grippe, France) - Confirmed • Pierre-Marie Lledo (Pasteur Institute, France) – Confirmed • Marja Makarow (Vice President for Research, Academy of Finland) • Johan Neyts (University of Leuven, Belgium) • Dasgupta Partha (Faculty of Economics and politics, Universityof Cambridge, UK) • Marc Peschanski (Scientific Coordinator, I-Stem, France) - Confirmed • Taina Pihlajaniemi (Chairman of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Collagen BIOVISION, the World Life Sciences Forum Page 3 Last Updated: Oct 24, 2012 Research Unit, Oulu University, Finland) • Thierry Pineau (INRA, France) • Peter Piot (Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) - Confirmed • Michael Posner (University of Oregon, USA) - Confirmed • Barbara Prainsack (Brunel University, UK) – Confirmed • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009, University of Cambridge, UK) • Ingmar Riedel-Kruse (Standford University, USA) – Confirmed • Jeremy Rifkin (University of Pennsylvania, Founder and President The Foundation on Economic Trends, USA) • Till Roenneberg (Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich, Germany) • Nuria Sebastian-Galles (Barcelona University, Spain) - Confirmed • Angela Sirigu (Institut des Neurosciences Cognitives, University of Lyon, France) - Confirmed • Bento Soares (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA) - Confirmed • Noam Sobel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) - Confirmed • François Taddéi (Inserm, Hôpital Necker, France) - Confirmed • Guy Theraulaz (University of Toulouse, France) - Confirmed • Stefan Thurner (Medical University of Vienna, Austria) – Confirmed • Brigitte Trousse (President, France Living Lab) • Sridhar Venkatapuram (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK) – Confirmed • Swarna Vepa (Madras School of Economics) • Peter Waterhouse (School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sidney, Australia) • Christopher