Assistant Director General, Natural Sciences, UNESCO Lidia Arthur Brito (Mozambique), a former minister, was appointed to the position of Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences on 2 November 2023. Lidia Arthur Brito obtained a bachelor’s degree in forestry engineering (1981) from Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) before obtaining a master’s degree (1990) and a doctorate in forestry…
Coordinator of the communications of the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Unit & Environment Coordinator, CERN Since April 2022, Anna Cook coordinates the communications of the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Unit alongside her role as Environment Coordinator, with as key focus the production of CERN’s biennial Environment Reports. Anna Cook holds a BSc (Hons)…
Executive Director of Partnerships for Development at the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan Hussam Hussein is a research associate in water diplomacy at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the role of discourses in shaping water policies in the Middle East, on transboundary water governance and critical hydropolitics, and on issues related to…
Assistant Professor, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (Mauritius) Devina Lobine’s research focuses on ethno-pharmacology, and non-communicable diseases. She has several years of practical and applied experience in various fields of life sciences and has delivered several impactful communications. She is a passionate STEM advocate and plays a pivotal role in promoting STEM initiatives.…
Professor of political economy, Sapienza University of Rome Carlo D’Ippoliti is alos an editor of the open-access economics journals “PSL Quarterly Review” and “Moneta e Credito”. He holds a joint Ph.D. in economics from the J.W. Goethe University of Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany) and from Sapienza (Italy), and he is the recipient of the 2018 A. Feltrinelli…
Vice Dean (Interdisciplinarity Entrepreneurship) at the University College London (UCL) Faculty of Engineering Sciences Ruth Morgan is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCL Arista Institute, full Professor of Crime and Forensic Science, and the Founder and Director of the UCL Centre for the Forensic Science She works at the intersection of science, technology…
Science Director, International Science Council Vanessa McBride has a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Southampton. She has over fifteen years of experience, including various leadership roles, across university, research infrastructure and science-for-development settings in an international arena. She joined the ISC from the International Astronomical Union’s Office for Astronomy for Development, where she…
President, CERN Council Eliezer Rabinovici is currently professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Louis Michel visiting chair at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES). He received his PhD in high-energy physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1974. In the following years, he worked…
Director-General, CERN Fabiola Gianotti received her Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Milano, Italy, in 1989. Since 1994 she has been a research physicist at CERN and since August 2013 an honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. She is a corresponding or foreign associate member of the Italian Academy of Sciences,…
Senior Program Assistant, ICGEB, Co-chair, Global Young Academy Felix Moronta is a visionary scientist with extensive training in strengthening the interface between science, policy, and society. His primary goal is to bridge biotechnology and sustainable food security. His professional dedication has been focused on assisting countries in fulfilling their international biosafety obligations. Furthermore, he has…
