Speakers 2011

Professor, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH

Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.

Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, USA.

Distinguished University Professor, Tumor and Vascular Biology Research Center, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa; Nobel Laureate 2004 in Chemistry, Israel

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Professor in Mathematics, Duke University, President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), USA.

Researcher at the Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute, Stanford University

Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Professor, Scientific Executive Director, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, President, acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Berlin, Germany.

Professor of Global Governance, Director, Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, UK.

Professor, President, DFG German Research Foundation, Bonn, Germany.

Director, Head of Attosecond- and High-Field Physics Division, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Munich, Chair of Experimental Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

String Cosmology Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany.

Director of the Earth Security Initiative

Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Professor, President, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Berlin, Germany.

Professor em., ETH Zürich, President, European Research Council (ERC), Vienna, Austria

Executive Director, Research Department, China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC)

Founder and Chairman of The Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum Kyoto, former Minister of Science and Technology and former Minister of Finance, Japan.

Professor, Former German Federal Minister of Education and Research.

Director, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Professor of Economics , Chair of Economic Theory, University of Kiel, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy , Germany

Professor of Mathematics, Université de Lyon, Director, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, Winner of the Fields Medal 2010, France.

Executive Director at nef (the new economics foundation), London

Dean and Professor of Plant Nematology at School of Agriculture and Enterprise Development, Kenyatta University, Nairobi

Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Director, Center for Research On Environmental Decisions, Director, Center for the Decision Sciences, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, USA.