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CHAIRMEN AND SPEAKERS



William Bains
Rufus Consulting and Professor, University of Cambridge Department of Biotechnology

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Martin Baumgartner
Austrian National Contact Point for Legal and Financial Matters

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David Benett
Member of numerous international organisations and committees in biotechnology and nanobiotechnology

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Emmanuel Bois
President, Cezanne

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Patrick Boisseau
Technological Research Division, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), Grenoble & Coordinator, Nano2Life Network of Excellence

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Thomas Bols
Chair of the EBE Biosimilars Task Force, European Biopharmaceutical Entreprises (EBE)


Gerard Brugal
University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble

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Brian Clark
Chairman, Task Group on International Relations (TGIR); European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB)

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Paul Colonna
Former head of the two successive INRA divisions Plant Products Transformations and Science and Process Engineering of Agricultural Products (39 research units, 598 permanent scientists) from 2000 to

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Willy De Greef
Secretary General Europabio

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Robert Doubleday
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

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Malcolm Elliott
Founding Executive Director of The Norman Borlaug Institute for Crop Improvement

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Brent Erickson
Vice President of the Industrial and Environmental Section at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

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Ian Graham
University of York, UK

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Ines Haberl
Working for the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Department of European and International Programmes as SME-NCP in the area of Life Sciences

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Chris Holloway
Dr. Chris Holloway is Group Director of Regulatory Affairs at ERA Consulting

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Bruce W. Jenett
Partner, Co-Chair, Global Life Sciences Sector, DLA Piper US LLP

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Gerfried Jungmeier
Energy Research Center, Joanneum Research Institute, Austria


Alastair Kent
Director of the Genetic Interest Group (GIG) - the UK alliance of charities and support groups for people affected by genetic disorders.

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Gerald Keusch
Assistant Provost and Associate Dean for Global Health, Boston University; Former Director, Fogarty International Center, NIH

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Cathy Kinney
Group Executive Vice President and Head of Global Listings, NYSE Euronext

Catherine R. Kinney is Group Executive Vice President and Head of Global Listings, NYSE Euronext. She is a member of the NYSE Euronext Management Committee.

Mrs. Kinney, who is based in Paris, is responsible for overseeing the company’s global listings and NYSE Euronext marketing and branding activities.

Prior to her current position, she was President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of the New York Stock Exchange and, following the Archipelago merger in 2006, NYSE Group, Inc., since 2002. From 1995 – 2002 she served as the Group Executive Vice President responsible for global listings and client services for the New York Stock Exchange. In 1986, Mrs. Kinney assumed responsibility for trading-floor operations and technology.

Mrs. Kinney joined the NYSE in 1974 and rose steadily through the ranks, holding management positions in several divisions, including Technology Planning, Sales and Marketing, Operations and Regulation.

Mrs. Kinney is a member of the boards of Georgetown University and Catholic Charities. She served on the Board of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. from 2002-2004 and Depository Trust Company from 2003-2007.

Mrs. Kinney graduated Magna Cum Laude from Iona College and completed the Advanced Management Program, Harvard Graduate School of Business. She has received honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Fordham University, and Rosemont College.


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Jonathan Knowles
President of Group Research, Member of the Executive Committee, Roche; Member of the Board of Genentech; Chairman of the Governing Board of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI); Chair of EFPIA’s

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Ingrid Kossler
President of EUROPA DONNA

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Sir Peter Lachmann
Founder President of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences

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Nils Langvad
Business Development Director, BioGasol ApS


Gregory Lemkine
PhD, Founder and chief executive officer of WatchFrog, Paris, France.

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Chung-Cheng Liu
Chung-Cheng Liu is General Director of Biomedical Engineering Research Laboratory (BEL) in Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) since 2006

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Cedric Lombardo
President, BeTheDev, Ivory Coast


Thomas Lönngren
Executive Director, European Medicines Agency (EMEA)

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Federico Mayor
Co-Chair of the UN High-Level Group on the Alliance of Civilizations; Former Director General, UNESCO

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Eric Meslin
Director, Indiana University, Center for Bioethics and Associate Dean; Professor of Medicine, Medical and Molecular Genetics, and Philosophy; Former Executive Director, National Bioethics Advisory Com

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Osamu Nagayama
Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chugai; former President, Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA)

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Christian Neri
Christian Néri, Ph.D, Research Director at INSERM and Associate Professor at the University of Montreal.

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Alfred Nordmann
President of the Lichtenberg Society

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Mira Pavlovic Ganascia
Head of Scientific Advice Unit at the French Medicines Agency

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Philippe Pouletty
Chairman, France Biotech

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Daniel Ramon Vidal
Professor of Food Technology, University of Valencia; Scientific Director, Biopolis S.L.


Andrea Rappagliosi
Vice-President Health Policy & Market Access


Marilia Regini Nuti
Embrapa Food Technology Center, Brazil

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Steen Riisgaard
Chairman, EuropaBio; President and Chief Executive Officer, Novozymes

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Roberto Rodrigues
Roberto Rodrigues, former brazilian minister of Agriculture, Co-chairman of the Interamerican Ethanol Commission (IEC), Coordinator of the Getulio Vargas Foundation Agribusiness Center (GV Agro) and P

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William Roe
President and CEO, Coskata, Inc.

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George Rothschild
Emeritus Professor, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, UK; Chairperson, European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD)

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Theodore Roumel
Vice President for Research Innovation and Commercialization at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

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Tristan Rousselle
Tristan Rousselle - CEO, Protein'eXpert SA

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Valerie Sabatier
Grenoble Applied Economic Laboratory (UMR INRA/UPMF),

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Albert Sasson
Former Director of the Central Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of UNESCO

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Christian Sautter | France
Former French Minister for Finance ;Vice Mayor of Paris, responsible for Employment, Economic Development, and International Attractiveness (since March 2008) ;Chairman of Association « France Active

Christian Sautter is a graduate from Polytechnic School (1960), National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (1965) and the Paris Institute of Political Studies (1966).


He has been Minister of Economy, Finances and Industry (November 1999 – March 2000) in Lionel Jospin’s government; Deputy Minister in charge of Budget (June 1997- November 1999); Prefect of Paris and the Ile-de-France Region (1991-1993); Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency of the Republic when François Mitterrand was Head of State (1982-1985 and 1988-1990).


He had previously been director of the CEPII (Centre for Prospective Studies and International Information that works with the National Planning Commission) and responsible for several services at INSEE (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Surveys)


Tom Saylor
Chief Executive Officer, Arecor


Peter Schintlmeister
Chairman of the ERA-NET EURO-TRANSBIO

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Alexander Schwartz
Expert of McKinsey’s chemical practice and part of the Vienna office

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Gordon Smith-Baxter
As CEO of BioWisdom, Gordon is currently focused on building IT solutions which reduce the frequency of adverse drug reactions and for the determination of the best contexts for optimal healthcare.

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Daniella Steel
Cellartis, Göteborg, Sweden

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Pierre Tambourin
President EuroBiO 2008; Chief Executive of Genopole®

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Stephan B Tanda
Member of the Board, DSM

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Marion Trommsdorff
Patent Examiner at the European Patent Office (Munich, Germany)

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Stefaan Van der Spiegel
European Commission, Directorate General Enterprise and Industry, Directorate F, Unit F5


Johan Vanhemelrijck
Former Secretary General, EuropaBio

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Martin Von Lampe
Agricultural Policy Analyst, OECD


Avigad Vonshak
Director, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson
President, Karolinska Institutet; Member of Karolinska Institutet’s Nobel Assembly

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Constantino Ziogas
Constantinos Ziogas is administrator in the SME Office at the European Medicines Agency

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