International Forum on Science and Diplomacy

Benoit Dubuis, Academician and president of Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences

Huadong Guo, Geoscientist; Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Researcher of Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Diana Boraschi, Former Acting Director of Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council, Naples, Italy; Former Research Director in Immunology of Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, National Research Council, Naples, Italy; Distinguished Professor of Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology; Director of Laboratory of Inflammation and Vaccines, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xuetong Yan, Senior Professor of Liberal Arts; Director of Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University

Theme 1: Deepening Global S&T Cooperation, Jointly Promoting Sustainable Development

Moderator: Xiaoming Jin, Director of Science and Technology Diplomacy Expert Committee; Former Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology of Peoples Republic of China

Speakers:

1. Gregory Herczeg, Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics

2. Alice Hughes, Associate Professor of the University of Hong Kong

3. Yongzhi Wang, Sichuan Provincial Academy of Natural Resources Sciences

4. Hani Abdelghani Abdelghani Mansour, Egypt National Research Center

5. Peng Li, Deputy Director of Institute of Drug Discovery, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

6. Jie Bao, Founder and Chief Scientist of QuantaEye (Beijing) Co., Ltd

Theme 2: Advocating Open Science Spirit, Building a Global Science and Technology Community

Moderator: Rongping Mu, Researcher of Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chairman of the Chinese Association of Science of Science and Science &Technology Policy (CASSSP)

Speakers:

1. Katherine Morton, Professor of Schwarzman Scholars, Tsinghua University

2. Meng Wang, Senior Engineer of Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Distinguished Professor of University of Bologna; Deputy Director-General of World Association of Young Scientists

3. Arman Jafarian, Associate Professor of Zhejiang Ocean University

4. Sheng Hong, Associate Professor of School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University