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Invited Speakers
- Marisa Alonso Núñez, EURODOC, Research fellow at the Paterson Institute for Cancer, United Kingdom
- Andrea Bonaccorsi Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Pisa, ANVUR member of the board, Italy
- Paul Boyle, President of Science Europe, United Kingdom
- Georg Buchtela, Technology Chair of the ERAC Group on Knowledge Transfer, Austria
- Ilaria Capua, Director of Virology Department and of International Reference Laboratories, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Italy
- Maria Da Graça Carvalho, European Parliament, Member of ITRE Committee, Brussels, Belgium
- Vanessa Diaz , University College London, Department for Mechanical Engineering, United Kingdom
- Neven Duic, Head of Power Engineering and Energy Management Chair Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zagreb. Euraxess Ambassador, Croatia
- Pat Frain, Executive Board Member, ProTon Europe, Ireland
- Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, Switzerland
- Gudmund Host, e-IRG chair, Norway
- Martin Hynes, CEO of ESF, France
- Costas Iacovou, Director of Planning at Planning Bureau, Cyprus
- Karin Kase, Head of Communications, Archimedes Foundation, EURAXESS, Estonia
- Bjarne Kirsebom, Vice-Chair ERAC, Chief Advisor for International and European Affairs, Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden
- Helena Malmqvist, Head of external research collaborations /ABB Corporate Research Center, Sweden
- Wolfgang Marquardt, Chair of the German Council of Science and Humanities (The Wissenschaftsrat) Germany
- Charles Mgone, Executive Director, European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), Netherlands
- Achilleas Mitsos, Chair of the Economists groups assessing the socio-economic impact of ERA, Greece
- Hans Müller Pedersen, GPC Chair, Deputy Director General, Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark
- Riitta Mustonen, SFIC chair, Vice President for Research of the Academy of Finland
- Sijbolt Noorda, President of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), Netherlands
- Sir Keith O'Nions, Rector of Imperial College, United Kingdom
- Morten Østergaard, Higher Education and Research Minister, Denmark
- Volker Rieke, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, DG for European and International cooperation in Education and Research, Germany
- André Sapir, Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Senior Fellow at Bruegel
- Sylvia Schwaag Serger, Executive Director International Strategy & Networks, Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), Sweden
- Anna Sjöström Douagi, Director of Swedish Young Academy, Sweden
- Alma Swan, Director Key Perspectives Ltd, United Kingdom
- Daria Tataj, Member of EIT Executive Committee, Founder EMF Consultancy and Professor at Warsaw University of Technology Business School, Poland
- Lena Tsipouri, University of Athens, Member of I4G, Greece
- Jan van den Biesen, Vice President & Director Public R&D Programs at Philips, representing BusinessEurope , Brussels, Belgium
- Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, ESFRI chair, Germany
- Tatiana Volkova, Former Rector BA School of Business and Finance, former President of Rector’s Conference of Latvia
- Torsten Wiesel, President Emeritus Rockefeller University, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1981, USA
EC Representatives
- Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Director, Health, Brussels, Belgium
- Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Brussels, Belgium
- Anne Glover, EU Chief Scientific Adviser, Brussels, Belgium
- Sigi Gruber, Head of Unit Relations with third countries, Brussels, Belgium
- Kirsi Haavisto, Deputy Head of Unit Innovation policy , Brussels, Belgium
- Stefaan Hermans, Head of Unit Skills, Brussels, Belgium
- Gilles Laroche, Head of Unit Ethics and Gender, Brussels, Belgium
- Anneli Pauli, Deputy Director-General Research and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium
- Octavi Quintana Trias, Director European Research Area, European Commission: outcome of the consultation / key messages, Brussels, Belgium
- Olli Rehn, Vice-President of the European Commission, Commissioner for Economic and monetary affairs and the Euro, Brussels, Belgium
- Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General Research and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium