Chair College
The Chair College is composed of the previous and present Chairmen of BioVision conferences.
(Titles at the time of Chairmanship)
Science
Prof.Werner Arber, Nobel Laureate, University of Basel - BioZentrum
Prof. Etienne Emile Baulieu, President, Académie des Sciences
Dr.Rita Colwell, Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland & the Johns Hopkins University;
former Director, National Science Foundation; Head, Life Sciences, Canon
Prof. Peter Doherty, Nobel Medicine 1996; Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne
Prof.Richard Flavell, Chief Scientific Officer, Ceres Inc. (U.S.A.)
Prof. Mike Gale, Fellow of the Royal Society; Head, Comparative Genetics Unit, John Innes Centre (UK)
Prof. Claude Helene, Professor at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Member, Académie des Sciences
Prof.Thomas Hoban, Professor of Sociology, North Carolina State University
Prof.Axel Kahn, Research Director, INSERM, Member of the National Advisory Ethics Committee
Prof. Gerald T. Keusch, Associate Dean, School of Public Health, Boston University; former Director, Fogarty International Centre - NIH
Prof.Philippe Kourilsky, Director-General, Institut Pasteur; Professor, Collège de France
SirPeter Lachmann, President, Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)
Prof. Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology ; Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
Prof.Guy Ourisson, former President, Académie des Sciences
Prof.M.S. Swaminathan, President,M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (India);
UNESCO, Chair in Ecotechnology
Prof. Jennifer A. Thomson, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cape Town University
Prof.Marc Van Montagu, Professor Emeritus, University of Gent
Prof.Alexander Zehnder, Director, EAWAG; Professor, Environmental Biotechnology, FIT
Society
Mrs. Tracey Brown, Director, Sense About Science
Mr. Kul Chandra Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
Mrs.Julie Hill, Director, Green Alliance (UK)
Dr. Eric Meslin, former Executive Director, National Bioethics Advisory Commission; Director, Indiana University, Centre for Bioethics; Professor of Medicine, Philosophy and Molecular & Medical Genetics
Mr.Jim Murray, Director, European Consumers Association
Dr.Michael Oborne, Director, International Futures Programme, OECD
Mr.Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
Mr. Prabhu Pingali, Director, Agricultural & Development Economics Division, FAO
Mr. Ysbrand Poortman, Chairman, European Platform Patient Organisations (The Netherlands)
Mr.Mark Ritchie, President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (U.S.A.)
Dr. Guénaêl Rodier, Director, Department of Communicable Diseases Surveillance & Response,
WHO
Prof. Joanna Rubinstein, Director of Strategic Programs Earth Institute, Columbia University
Dr.Ismail Serageldin, former Vice President Special Programmes, The World Bank
Prof.Klaus Töpfer, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations; Executive Director, UN Environment Programme; former German Minister for Environment
Industry
Dr.Göran Ando, Executive Vice President & President R&D, Pharmacia Corporation
Dr.Pol Bamelis, Member of the Board of Management, Bayer AG
Mr.F. Guillaume Bastiaens, Vice Chairman, Cargil
Dr. Thomas M. Connelly, Senior Vice President & Chief Science and Technology Officer, DuPont S
Dr. Peter Doyle, Executive Director, Zeneca
Dr. Wolfgang Gawrisch, Head of Central Research, Henkel KGa
Dr. Peter Goodfellow, Senior Vice President, Discovery Research, R&D, GlaxoSmithKline
Mr.Heinz Imhof, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Syngenta
Dr.Hans Kast, President & Chief Executive Officer, BASF Plant Science; Vice Chairman, EuropaBio
Prof.Jonathan Knowles, President of Global Research, Roche Group; Member of the Executive
Committee, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Dr.Helmut Koch, Vice President R&D, Eridania Beghin-Say S.A.
Mr. Emmo Meijer, Professor; Senior Vice President, Unilever Foods R&D
Prof. Jean-François Minster, Scientific Director, Total
Mr. Andrea Rappagliosi, Vice President Health Policy & Government Relations, Merck Serono International SA
Mr.Steen Riisgaard, President & Chief Executive Officer, Novozymes A/
Dr. George R. Siber, Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, Wyeth Vaccines
Mr.Feike Sijbesma, Managing Board of Directors, DSM; Chairman, EuropaBio
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