Unlocking the potential of global research and innovation collaboration

Speakers for this event

• Audet, Michel

  Audet, Michel

  Québec Delegate General in Brussels

  Michel Audet took up his duties as Québec Delegate General in Brussels on December 1, 2014. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Audet was Deputy Minister at the Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie. He was also the Commissioner General of the French Language World Forum held in Québec City in 2012. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Audet was the first Québec Government representative at UNESCO. Earlier, he was a full professor in the Department of Industrial Relations in Université Laval’s Faculty of Social Sciences and served as director of the Francophone Centre for the Computerization of Organizations (CEFRIO), as well as of the Institute for Information technologies and Societies (IITS), and of the Institute for Advanced International Studies (HEI).

  Québec Delegate General in Brussels

• del Castillo Vera, Pilar

  del Castillo Vera, Pilar

  Member of the European Parliament

  Former Minister of Education and Culture from 2000 to 2004, del Castillo was elected to the European Parliament for the first time in 2004. She belongs to the Partido Popular (People’s Party), which in turn is a member of the European People’s Party. She is the European Parliament's rapporteur on the European Electronic Communications Code. She has also been, among others, the rapporteur of the Telecoms Single Market Regulation; the Directive on Security of Networks and Information Systems for the ITRE committee; the Regulation on the Body of European Regulators in Electronic Communications' (BEREC); the report on Cloud Computing Strategy for Europe and the Report "A Digital Agenda for Europe: 2015.eu, to name just some examples. Del Castillo is the Chair of the European Internet Forum (EIF), Vicepresident of the European Energy Forum, member of the board of Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) and member of the Transatlantic Policy Network. Del Castillo is Professor in Political Science and Administration. She obtained a PhD in Law from Universidad Complutense. Before, she had attended Ohio State University on a Fulbright scholarship, graduating with a Master’s degree in Political Science. She was the Executive President of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Sociology Research Centre) from 1996 to 2000.

  Member of the European Parliament

• Dr. Hewitt, Ted

  Dr. Hewitt, Ted

  President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Chair of the Canada Research Coordinating Committee

  Ted Hewitt was appointed president of SSHRC in March 2015. Dr. Hewitt was vice-president, research and international relations, at Western University in London, Ontario, from 2004 to 2011, where he had been a professor of sociology since 1989. A leading authority on Brazil, in 2018, Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Relations named him Grand Officer of the Order of Rio Branco—one of the highest levels of merit—for the many years he has fostered bilateral business and research partnerships between Brazil and Canada. Dr. Hewitt’s current research focuses on national and international innovation systems, with emphasis on the roles of universities, industry and government in promoting economic prosperity in Latin America and beyond. He is co-chair of the Canada-Brazil Joint Committee for Cooperation on Science, Technology and Innovation, and a member of the board of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce. He holds a PhD in sociology from McMaster University.

  President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Chair of the Canada Research Coordinating Committee

• Geerdink, Charlotte

  Geerdink, Charlotte

  Founder of Charly Speaks

  Charlotte is the founder of Charly Speaks. By coincidence, she started moderating high level events and found out that she loved doing it. Voilà, her own business case was born. Although she commenced her moderations in the EU science and innovation area in which she worked for more than 8 years, she has meanwhile taken on moderation jobs in different areas as well. Charlotte is a Dutch national, fluent in English, German and with a good command of French. Her style of moderating can best be described as informal, relaxed, and witty. It is her aim to bring across complex material in an understandable way. Making the speakers, panellists and audience feel at ease is what she always strive for. Her life motto ‘sharing is caring’ is well applicable to both my character and moderation style. More info: https://cgeerdink.wixsite.com/charlyspeaks

  Founder of Charly Speaks

• Golding, David

  Golding, David

  EUREKA UK Deputy High Level Group Chairman

  David is Deputy Chair of EUREKA during the UK Chairmanship - 1ST July 2018 to 30th June 2019. EUREKA facilitates global collaboration on innovation enabling businesses and research organisations to innovate with the best partners regardless of where they are in the world. It brings together the world’s largest grouping of national innovation funding ministries and agencies from 45 countries, including the European Commission. EUREKA provides a common framework through which countries can work together. David works for Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency and is also a UK representative of the European Commission’s SME and Risk Finance Programme Committee, the UK Board member for TAFTIE (the Association of European Innovation Agencies), and the UK representative on the Enterprise Europe Network Steering and Advisory Group.

  EUREKA UK Deputy High Level Group Chairman

• Leskiw, Michael

  Leskiw, Michael

  International Senior Contract Administrator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  Michael Leskiw is the International Senior Contract Administrator in the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). OSP has institutional authority for the negotiation and signing of all sponsored (non-gift) agreements at MIT, and within this office Michael is responsible for agreements with international sponsors, foundations, and state and local governments. Michael’s previous roles at MIT have included establishing a research center in Singapore (SMART) and a new university outside Moscow (Skoltech). Michael is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

  International Senior Contract Administrator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

• Prof. Martucci, Moacyr

  Prof. Martucci, Moacyr

  Brazilian National Contact Point Coordinator European Programmes

  Full professor at the Department of Computing Engineering of Escola Politecnica of University of Sao Paulo - USP, Coordinator of the Institute for Studies Brazil Europe, a Research Support Nucleus under the Research Pro-rectory and Deputy Dean of the Institute of International Relations of USP. BSSC in Electronics Engineering in 1973, MSc in 1978, PhD in 1981, Associate Professor in 1992, and Full Professor in 1999. Martucci has been working in the Information Technology area since 1971 He was the Brazilian coordinator of the European Commission funded projects in the 6th Framework programme, in the 6th Framework program, in the 7th Framework programme, in Europeaid programme and in the Horizon 2020.

  Brazilian National Contact Point Coordinator European Programmes

• Prof. Nagano, Hiroshi

  Prof. Nagano, Hiroshi

  Visiting Fellow, Center for R&D Strategy (CRDS), Japan; Former Chairperson, Global Science Forum, OECD; Former Director-General, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan

  From August 2010 to the present, Prof. Nagano has worked as Visiting Fellow of JST’s Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS). He was appointed as Guest Professor of Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences from March 2009, and as Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from 2015. He had also served as Chair of Global Science Forum (GSF), Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Prior to joining CRDS, Prof. Nagano had worked as Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and as Executive Director of JST.

  Visiting Fellow, Center for R&D Strategy (CRDS), Japan; Former Chairperson, Global Science Forum, OECD; Former Director-General, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan

• Russo, Cristina Maria

  Russo, Cristina Maria

  European Commission, Director of International Cooperation, DG Research and Innovation (RTD)

  Maria Cristina Russo is Director for International Cooperation in DG Research and Innovation with responsibilities for developing and implementing the EU international strategy for international cooperation in research and innovation and the international dimension of the Horizon programme. She has been working for the European Commission since 1992 where she held several policy and managerial positions related to external relations, the EU decision-making process and various EU policies, in particular research & innovation. She was part of the team dealing with technical assistance to former Soviet Union, then member of the Cabinet of the Commissioner in charge of research policy when the European Research Area was launched. She was later on appointed Head of Unit in the Secretariat-General of the European Commission on different positions dealing with inter-institutional relations and policy making, and in the department in charge of consumers' policies and financial services before being appointed in 2013 in her current position. Maria Cristina holds a degree on Political Sciences from the Luiss University of Rome and a Research Master Degree in European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges. She has three children

  European Commission, Director of International Cooperation, DG Research and Innovation (RTD)