Conference Invited Speakers |
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Click the name to view Speaker's Biography |
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Position |
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Country
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1 |
Abou Gharbia, Magid |
Vice President & Head, Chemical & Screening Sciences, Wyeth Research |
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USA |
2 |
Amaral, Weber |
Senior Scientist, International Plant Genetic
Resources Institute, IPGRI |
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Italy |
3 |
Ammann, Klaus |
Director, Botanical Garden |
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Switzerland |
4 |
Amri, Ahmed |
Biodiversity Project Coordinator, West Asia Regional Program (WARP) - ICARDA |
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Morocco |
5 |
Badr, Effat |
Professor of
Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University |
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Egypt |
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Badran, Ibrahim |
Former Egyptian Minister of Health |
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Egypt |
7 |
Beachy, Roger |
President, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center |
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USA |
8 |
Bennett, Andrew |
Executive Director of the the Syngenta Foundation |
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Switzerland |
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Bennett, David |
Acting General Secretary, European Federation of Biotechnology |
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Netherlands |
10 |
Carlone, Claudio |
Chairman, Hypothesis Communication Agency |
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Italy |
11 |
Catley-Carlson, Margaret |
Chair of the Global Water Partnership |
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USA |
12 |
Cernea, Michael |
Former Senior Advisor for Sociology and Social Policy, the World Bank |
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Romania |
13 |
Chen, Zhu |
Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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China |
14 |
Choudhary, Muhammud |
Acting Director, HEJ Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi |
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Pakistan |
15 |
Christie, Werner |
President, World Health Connections; Former Minister of Health |
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Norway |
16 |
Clark, Brian |
President, International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Aarhus University
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Denmark |
17 |
Coffman, Ronnie |
Chair, Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University |
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USA |
18 |
Cunningham, Patrick |
Professor of Animal Genetics, Trinity College; Member of European Group on Life Sciences |
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Ireland |
19 |
Dahlstrom, Annica |
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Göteberg University |
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Sweden |
20 |
De Carvalho, Antonio Paes |
President and CEO of EXTRACTA Moleculas Naturais S/A |
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Brazil |
21 |
De Greef, Willy |
Executive Director, International Biotech Regulatory Services |
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Belgium |
22 |
Desmarescaux, Philippe |
Chairman, The World Life Sciences Forum, BioVision |
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France |
23 |
Diderichsen, Boerge |
President, European Federation of Biotechnology; Vice-President, Novo Nordisk |
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Denmark |
24 |
Ebeid, Nadia Makram |
Former Minister of State for Environmental Affairs |
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Egypt |
25 |
Ehlers, Stefan |
Head of Department, Borstel Leibniz Center for Medicine and BioSciences |
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Germany |
26 |
El-Baz, Farouk |
Director, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University |
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USA |
27 |
El Beltagy, Adel |
Director General, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas |
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Syria |
28 |
El Itriby, Hanaiya |
Director, Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Center |
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Egypt |
29 |
Elliott, Malcolm |
Director, The Norman Borlaug Institute for Plant Science Research |
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UK |
30 |
Erbisch, Frederick |
Former Director, Office of Intellectual Property at Michigan State University |
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USA |
31 |
Frison, Emile |
Director-General, IPGRI |
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Italy |
32 |
Gabr, Mamdouh |
Secretary-General, Egyptian Red Crescent |
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Egypt |
33 |
Garzelli, Massimo |
Head of Regional Office, UNIDO |
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34 |
Gros, Francois |
Honorary Permanent Secretary, Academy of Sciences |
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France |
35 |
Hamze, Mouin |
President , International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies |
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Lebanon |
36 |
Hassan, Mohamed |
Executive Director, Third World Academy of Sciences |
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37 |
Hautea, Randy |
Global Coordinator, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, SEAsia Director |
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Philippines |
38 |
Helmy, Hassan Abass |
Chairman and Managing Director, Pharco Pharmaceuticals |
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Egypt |
39 |
Hoogendoorn, Coosje |
Deputy Director-General, Programmes, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, IPGRI, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, CGIAR |
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Italy |
40 |
Huttner, Eric |
General Manager, Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Limited |
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Australia |
41 |
Jarrett, Stephen |
Deputy Director, Supply Division, UNICEF |
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42 |
Jasmin, Claude |
Founding President, International Council for Global Health Progress (ICGHP); Professor of Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Hôpital Paul Brousse |
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France |
43 |
Johnson, Brian |
Head of Biotechnology Advisory Unit, English Nature |
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UK |
44 |
Lachmann, Sir Peter |
Past President, Academy of Medical Sciences |
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UK |
45 |
MacMillan, Whitney |
Chairman Emeritus, Cargill Inc |
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USA |
46 |
Madkour, Magdi |
President, Agriculture Research Centers, Ministry of Agriculture |
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Egypt |
47 |
Matta, Cherif F. |
Chemistry Department, University of Toronto |
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Canada |
48 |
McConnell, David |
Department of Genetics, University of Dublin |
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Ireland |
49 |
Murphy, Noel |
Department of Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College |
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Ireland |
50 |
Nagayama, Osamu |
President and CEO of Chugai Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., and President of Jabex and JPMA |
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Japan |
51 |
Nakhla, Rafik |
Bibliotheca Alexandrina |
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Egypt |
52 |
Nutti, Marilia |
Biosafety and Human Nutriton Researcher, National Research Center on Food Technology, Embrapa |
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Brazil |
53 |
Omi, Koji |
Former Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy |
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Japan |
54 |
Pardey, Philip |
Professor of Science and Technology Policy, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota |
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USA |
55 |
Peacock, Jim |
President of Australian Academy of Science |
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Australia |
56 |
Persley, Gabrielle |
Chair, The Doyle Foundation |
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57 |
Poortman, Ysbrand |
Vice President, World Alliance of Organizations for the Prevention of Birth Defects |
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Netherlands |
58 |
Potrykus, Ingo |
Professor Emeritus of Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
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Switzerland |
59 |
Prakash, C. S. |
Director, Center for Plant Biotechnology Research |
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USA |
60 |
Rabbinge, Rudy |
University Professor, Executive Board of Wageningen UR |
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Netherlands |
61 |
Ramphele, Mamphela |
Managing Director, Human Development Network, the World Bank |
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62 |
Romeo-Casabona, Carlos |
Director, Inter-University Chair BBVA Foundation-Provincial Government of Biscay in Law and the Human Genome |
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Spain |
63 |
Sasson, Albert |
Former Assistant Director General of UNESCO |
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Morocco |
64 |
Schneider, Cynthia P. |
Associate Professor, Georgetown University; Former US Ambassador |
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USA |
65 |
Serageldin, Ismail |
Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Chairman of European Action on Global Life Sciences, EAGLES |
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Egypt |
66 |
Solh, Mahmoud |
Director, Plant Production & Protection Division, Agricultural Dept., FAO |
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67 |
Soliman, Salah |
Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Alexandria |
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Egypt |
68 |
Swaminathan, M. S. |
UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology; M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation |
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India |
69 |
Thorntröm, Carl-Gustaf |
Senior Research Advisor, Agriculture Department for Research Cooperation, Sida/SAREC |
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Sweden |
70 |
Van Montagu, Marc |
Chairman, Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries |
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Belgium |
71 |
Von Der Osten-Sacken, Alexander |
Former Executive Secretary, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, CGIAR |
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Germany |
72 |
Yang, Huanming |
Director, Beijing Genomics Institute/Genomics and Bioinformatics Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Co-Vice-Chairman, European Action on Global Life Sciences
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China |
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Zheng-Hong, Yuan |
Vice-Dean, Medical College , Fudan University |
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China |
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