Science Diplomacy 2018

Welcome  

Rush Holt  | CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Opening Address

Peggy Hamburg | President of AAAS, Foreign Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine 

In conversation with
Tom Wang | Chief International Officer, AAAS and Director of the Center for Science Diplomacy

Strengthening Ties, Strengthening Global Policy Making: Mechanisms in the Americas

Organizer: Cara Marshall, Office of the Chief Science Advisor, Canada

• Mona Nemer | Chief Science Advisor, Government of Canada
• Rita Colwell | Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Aisha Jones | Executive Director, Biotech R&D Institute (Jamaica) 
• Marcos Regis Da Silva | Executive Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
• Bunmi Akinnusotu | Chief of Staff, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (moderator)

Antimicrobial Resistance: Cooperating to Combat a Tragedy of the Global Commons

Organizer: Brad Wible, Senior Editor, Science magazine

• Ambassador Juan José Gómez-Camacho | Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations
• Ramanan Laxminarayan | Founder and Director, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, senior research scholar and lecturer, Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University, Member of U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance
• Jessica Petrillo | Senior Advisor for Health Security, Office of International Health and Biodefense, U.S. Department of Stat

Think Locally to Impact Globally: Science Diplomacy at the State Level

Organizer: Ivy Estabrooke, Executive Director for Corporate Executive Programs at PolarityTE

• June Chen | Managing Partner, Mountain Pacific Venture Fund
• Juan Manuel Romero | Vice President of Innovation and Technology Transfer, UNAM Mexico City
• Dan Wee | CEO & Founder, T3S

A New Horizon in EU Science Diplomacy

Organizer: Casimiro Vizzini, UNESCO

• Alexander Degelsegger-Márquez | Head of Department, Centre for Social Innovation Universität Wien in Vienna
• Pascal Griset | Professor at Sorbonne Université, Directeur of the Institute of Communication Sciences in Paris
• Luk Van Langenhove | Director at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
• Marga Gual Soler | Senior Project Director, Center for Science Diplomacy, AAAS (moderator)

The Science Shift: Perspectives on the Role of Diplomacy in a Changing Global Science Ecosystem

Organizer: Dominique Carter, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, National Science Foundation

• Rebecca Spyke Keiser | Director, Office of International Science and Engineering, U.S. National Science Foundation
• Romain Murenzi | Executive Director, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
• Andrew Price | Head of Team, Regional Manager, Americas at UK Science & Innovation Network, British Embassy, Washington DC
• Rachel Parker | Senior Director Research, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
• Catharine Young | Senior Director of Science Policy, Biden Cancer Initiative

Building a Trinational Initiative to Save Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of Mexico through Science Diplomacy

Organizer: Fernando Bretos, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

• Mark J. Spalding | President, The Ocean Foundation
• William Kiene | Independent Consultant
• Alejandra Navarrete | International Legal Advisor, Mexico, The Ocean Foundation

Mega-Science = Mega Diplomacy

Organizer: Cole Donovan, Office of Science and Technology Cooperation, U.S. Department of State

• Conny Arvis | Director, Office of Science and Technology Cooperation, U.S. Department of State
• Barry Barish | Emeritus Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology/ LIGO
• Nigel Lockyer | Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, LBNF/DUNE
• Charlotte Warakaulle | Director for International Relations, CERN
• Saul Gonzalez Martirena | Senior Advisor, Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, National Science Foundation

Beyond Borders: Migration, Health, and Diplomacy

Organizers: Kanya Long - World Bank Group/AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, Franck Berthe - World Bank Group, and Richard Seifman - The Global Fund Technical Review Panel Member

• Kanta Kumari Rigaud | Lead Environmental Specialist in the Environment & Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank Group
• John McDermott | Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture and Health, International Food Policy Research Institute
• Paul Spiegel | Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Victor Alegana | Research Fellow for Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton

Peace, Security, and Power: The Role of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Today's World

Organizer: Mahlet N. Mesfin, AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy

• Melissa L. Flagg | Head of U.S. Army Research Laboratory Northeast
• Jessica T. Mathews | Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Closing remarks 

Rush Holt  | CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Alan Leshner | CEO Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science