Topic I: “Science: the Global Public Good”

Gao Fu, Director-General of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, President of Chinese Society of Biotechnology, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

15:50-16:10      2. ITER - International Collaboration for a New Energy Future

Bernard Bigot, Director-General of the ITER Organization

16:10-16:30      3. Paradigm Change in Science and Technology and its Implications

Sir Andre Geim, Co-recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, Regius Professor and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Manchester

                         Wang Yifang, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of the Institute of High Energy

                         Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

                 Mohamad Sawan, Chair Professor in Westlake University, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

                 Paul Hardaker, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Physics, UK

Jonathan Gruber, Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Author of Jump-Starting America

Shu Yinbiao, President of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), President of Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering and Chairman

17:50-18:10        6. Innovation Policy Formulation and Innovation Capacity Building

Jakob Edler, Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Member of the German National Academy for Science and Engineering (Acatech)