“The metaphor of Falling Walls is really to create spaces for dialogue about big societal challenges that cross boundaries.”
Heide Hackmann – CEO, International Science Council
“It’s a vibrant environment to exchange, to learn and sharpen one’s assumptions against other people’s ideas.”
Thierry Zomahoun – President and CEO, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
“The participants decide the agenda and I think that this is quite interesting because it means that you have a bottom-up approach to both the questions and the solutions.”
Venki Ramakrishnan – Nobel laurate and President, The Royal Society
“It’s very exciting to hear leaders in the world express themselves frankly about solutions to problems we all wish to solve.”
Mona Nemer – Chief Science Advisor to the Government of Canada
