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Abdallah Daar
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Professor of Public Health Sciences and Surgery at the University of Toronto and Director of Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine.
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Adel Mahmoud
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President of Merck Vaccines, Merck & Co. Inc.
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Ahmed Bahieldin
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Professor of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Egypt & Senior Scientist, AGERI, ARC, Giza, Egypt
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Ahmed Massoud
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Professor of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University; and Director, Egyptian Association for Continuing Education and Training
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Alain Godard
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CEO of Aventis CropScience.
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Alfredo Aguilar
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Head of the Unit Community Cooperation Activities. Directorate International Scientific Cooperation, DG Research, European Commission.
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Anil Kapur
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Vice Chairman of the World Diabetes Foundation, Vice President of Novo Nordisk Corporate Stake holder Relations – Asia, and Trustee of the Novo Nordisk Education Foundation.
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Boerge Krag Diderichsen
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Vice President, Corporate Research Affairs
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Brian Clark
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Vice President of the European Federation of Biotechnology.
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Brian Johnson
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Head of the Biotechnology Advisory Unit, English Nature.
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Carani B Sanjeevi
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Associate Professor at Karolinska Institute, Sweden and Head of Molecular Immunogenetics Group at the Diabetes Center Karolinska.
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Changyu Pan
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Professor, Department of Endocrinology at the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China.
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Channapatna Sundar Prakash
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Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics and the Director of Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at Tuskegee University.
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Christian Patermann
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Programme Director for Biotechnology, Agriculture & Food Research at the Research Directorate-General of the European Commission.
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Christian Suojanen
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Secretary General of the European Federation of Biotechnology & Strategic Adviser, Europe Unlimited SA.
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Claudio Carlone
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President and founder of "Hypothesis" company.
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Clive James
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Chairman and Founder of The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
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Daniel Pagliano
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President of the Latin American Federation of National Biotechnology Companies Associations (FELAEB) and Director of the Uruguayan Association of Biotechnology Companies.
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David McConnell
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Professor of Genetics at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin and Chairman of The Irish Times Trust. He is also a coordinator in EAGLES.
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David Michael Todd
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Senior Evaluation Officer, Global Environment Facility (GEF).
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Dean Jamison
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Senior Editor of the Disease Control Priorities Project & Fellow in Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health.
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Effat Badr
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Professor Emeritus, Department. of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture in Alexandria, Egypt
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Elias Zerhouni
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Current director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002
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Ellis Marc Rubinstein
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President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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Eric Huttner
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General Manager of Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Limited and Manager of Triticarte.
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Erling Norrby
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Secretary General of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Florence M. Wambugu
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Founder and CEO of Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBFI).
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Francois Gros
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Honorary Permanent Secretary at the Académie des Sciences.
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Francois Sauer
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CEO of Trans Am Group.
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Frank Shotkoski
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Director of Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project (ABSP) II.
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Frank Walsh
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Executive Vice President of the Discovery Research at Wyeth.
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Frederic Erbisch
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Former Director of Office of Intellectual Property, Michigan State University.
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Gabrielle Persley
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Chair, Doyle Foundation
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George Sarpong
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Prof. of Environmenal Law, University of Ghana
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Gojka Roglic
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Technical officer Diabetes, WHO.
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Gurdev Khush
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Former Geneticist in IRRI and Professor in the University of California.
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Hany Helal
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Minister of Higher Education, Egypt.
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Hoda Elmikaty
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Director, PLanetarium Science Center, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
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Howarth Bouis
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Director of HarvestPlus.
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Huanming Yang
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Director of Beijing Genomics Institute & Co-Vice-Chairman at the European Action on Global Life Sciences (EAGLES).
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Iain Gillespie
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Head of Biotechnology Division, Science, Technology and Industry, OECD.
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Ibrahim Badran
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Former Minister of Health, Egypt.
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Ikeda Chieko
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Director for Advanced Medical Science, Division of Life Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology.
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Ingo Potrykus
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Professor of Plant Sciences, specifically of Biotechnology of Plants, at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the ETH Zurich.
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Ismail Serageldin
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Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina; and Chairman of European Action on Global Life Sciences, EAGLES.
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Jaakko Tuomilehto
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Professor of Public Health, University of Helsinki; and Diabetes and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, National Public Health Institute, Finland.
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Janez Potocnik
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European Commissioner for Science and Research, European Commission.
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Jens Degett
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Executive Director of the European Action on Global Life Sciences (EAGLES).
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Joanna Rubinstein
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Senior Associate Dean for Institutional and Global Initiatives at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), the health and biomedical sciences center of Columbia University
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João de SB Paes de Carvalho
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Executive Director of the Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Biotecnologia (ABRABI).
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Joe Harford
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Director of Office of International Affairs National Cancer Institute and a Cancer Consortium Implementation Group Member.
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Joel Breman
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Senior Scientific Advisor at the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.
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Joel Nobel
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Founder and Professor Emeritus of the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI).
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Kaushik Ramaiya
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Regional Chair IDF Africa Region
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Kazuo Shinozaki
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Director of Plant Science Center, Riken Yokohama Institute.
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Kiyoshi Kurokawa
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President of the Science Council of Japan and of Pacific Science Association
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Klaus Ammann
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Director of the Botanical Garden,
University of Bern.
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Koji Omi
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Former Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy and the Chairman of the Diet Members Promotion Alliance for Life Science.
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Lewis Collens
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President of Illinois Institute of Technology and is a Professor of Law.
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Luis Herrera Estrella
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Head, National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, the National Polytechnic Institute.
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Magdy A. Madkour
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Assistant Director General - International Cooperation of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
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Magid Abou-Gharbia
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Senior Vice President & Head of Chemical & Screening Sciences, Wyeth.
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Malcolm Elliott
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Professor of Plant Molecular Biology and Executive Director of The Norman Borlaug Institute for Crop Improvement.
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Marc Van Montagu
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Chairman of Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries.
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Margaret Catley-Carlson
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Chairman of the Global Water Partnership and the chairman of the Centre for Bioscience and Agriculture (CABI).
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Marie Ricciardone
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United States Embassy in Egypt
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Marilia Nutti
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Director of the National Research Center on Food Technology, Embrapa.
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Marta Valdez
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Coordinator at the Biotechnology Commission in University of Costa Rica.
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Michael W. Oborne
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Director of the International Futures Programme, OECD - French Delegation.
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Mohammed Hassan
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Executive Director of the Academy of Sciences for the developing world, (TWAS).
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Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
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UNESCO Cousteau Chair in Ecotechnology & Chairman M S Swaminathan Research Foundation.
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Morsi Arab
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Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Alexandria; President of the Egyptian Diabetes Association; and Regional Chairman of EMME Region International Diabetes Federation (IDF).
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Mostafa Abdel Samie
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Director, World Bank/ European Union Education Enhancing Program, Program Planning & Monitoring Unit
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Mourad Rezk
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Regional Medical Director of Novo Nordisk.
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Noha Adly
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Director, ICT Department, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
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Obsis Madkour
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Professor of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
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Patrick Cunningham
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Professor of Animal Genetics at Trinity College Dublin and Chairman of the Irish biotechnology company IdentiGEN Ltd.
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Peter Lachman
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Emeritus Professor of Immunology at University of Cambridge & Head of Microbial Immunology Group at Centre for Veterinary Science.
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Peter Singer
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Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.
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Phil Riley
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Communication Head at the IDF
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Philip Pardey
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Professor of Science and Technology Policy in the Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota.
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Philippe Desmarescaux
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Chairman of Scientific Foundation- BioVision (France).
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Pierre Anhoury
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Principal, IMS Health.
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Quentin Cooper
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Broadcaster/Science Journalist
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Rafael Rangel-Aldao
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Professor of biotechnology at Simón Bolívar University, and former Director of Research and Innovation of Empresas Polar.
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Rafik Nakhla
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Director of Personnel Department, Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
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Roelof Rabbinge
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Dean of Graduate Schools, Wagenigen University & Co-chair of InterAcademy Council (IAC) Study -Food for Africa.
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Ronald Laporte
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Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh.
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Salah Soliman
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Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of
Alexandria.
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Samir Helmy Assaad Khalil
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Professor in Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University.
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Sandy Thomas
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Director of The Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
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Sir George Alleyne
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Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean Region.
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Soheil Luka
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Scientific Officer in the International Scientific Cooperation unit, Research Directorate General, European Commission.
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Soumya Swaminathan
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Deputy Director Senior Grade, Head of Division of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis Research Centre.
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Stefano Padulosi
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Senior Scientist of Diversity for Livelihoods Programme at The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI).
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Stephen Jarett
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Deputy Director of UNICEF Supply Division.
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Tadashi Hirata
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Former Chairman, CEO of Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. & Member, Board of Japan Bioindustry Association.
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Villoo Morawala Patell
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Founder & CEO of Avesthagen.
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Vincent Vadez
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Senior Scientist, ICRISAT, Crop Physiology Laboratory, GT-1 Biotechnology, India
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Vishvanath Nene
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Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research.
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Viswanathan Mohan
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Chairman and Chief Diabetologist of Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialties Centre.
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Weber Amaral
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CEO of the Brazilian Biofuels Programme and Senior Scientist at the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute.
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Werner Christie
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Former Minister of Health of Norway, and chair of the Biotechnology Advisory Board of Norway.
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Wiam Younes
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Assistance to Young Diabetics-AYD
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Willy de Greef
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Executive Director of International Biotech Regulatory Services BVBA, Belgium.
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Yasuhiro Suzuki
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Director of R&D Promotion for Innovative Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices.
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Yehia Halim Zaki
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Head of Academic and Cultural Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina , Alexandria, Egypt
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Yoshihide Hayashizaki
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Project Director and Chief Scientist, Genome Exploration Research Group, Genomic Sciences Center.
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Ysbrand Poortman
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Founder, member and vice president of the World Alliance of Organizations for the Prevention of Birth Defects.
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Zhangliang Chen
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President of China Agriculture University.
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