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Programme Producers
& Speakers

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Confirmed Speakers

• Alexander Abutu Augustine - Journalist, Nigeria News Agency
• Krishna Barat - Founder Google news
• John Beddington - Chief Scientific Adviser to UK Government
• Richard Black - Environment Correspondent, BBC News
• Colin Blakemore - University of Oxford
• Sarah Boseley - Health Editor, The Guardian
• Maxwell Boykoff, PhD - Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography, Oxford University
• Franco Cavalli - Immediate past-president of the International Union Against Cancer, Switzerland
• Matthew Chalmers - Ex Features Ed, freelance journalist, Physics World
• Suranga Chandratillake - CEO and founder blinkx
• Laura Chang - New York Times
• Gordon Conway - Department for International Development
• Paddy Coulter - Oxford Global Media / Green College, Oxford University
• David Derbyshire - Environment Editor, The Daily Mail
• David Dickson - Director, SciDev.Net
• Tommaso Dorigo - Experimental Physicist and proprietor of blog A Quantum Diaries Survivor, member of the CMS collaboration at CERN, as well asthe CDF collaboration at Fermilab
• Matin Durani - Editor, Physics World
• Lesley Fallowfield - Professor of Psycho-Oncology at University of Sussex, UK
• Cristiane Fontes - British Embassy, Brazil
• Pallab Ghosh - BBC News
• James Gillies - Head of Communications, CERN
• Ben Goldacre - Bad Science Columnist, The Guardian
• Nalaka Gunawardene - Director and Chief Excecutive, TVE Asia Pacific
• Rod Harbinson - Panos, UK
• Roger Harrabin - BBC News
• Jia Hepeng - SciDev.Net, China
• Richard Horton - Editor, The Lancet
• Li Hujun - Caijin Magazine, Beijing
• Saleemul Huq - Head of IIED's climate change group and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Calestous Juma - Founding director, African Centre for Technology Studies
• David King - Director Smith School of Enterprise, University of Oxford
• Robert Lee Hotz - Wall Street Journal
• David Leigh - Investigations Editor, The Guardian
• Prof Gavin MacFadyen - Director, Centre for Investigative Journalism
• Emma Morton - Health Editor, The Sun
• Esther Nakkazi & Patrick Luganda - Network of Climate Journalists in the Horn of Africa, Uganda
• Jeff Nesbit - US National Science Foundation
• Andre Picard - Public Health Journalist, The Globe and Mail
• Tim Radford - Freelance, previously Science Editor, The Guardian
• John Rennie - Scientific American
• Andrew C. Revkin - Environment reporter, The New York Times
• Mike Richards - National Cancer Director for England, Cancer World
• Pamela Ronald - Professor, Plant Pathology; Chair, UC Davis Plant Genomics; Program Director, Grass Genetics Joint Bioenergy Institute
• Pawel Waleswski - Journalist with Polityka, Poland
• Robyn Williams - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

 

Programme Development (Producers)

The following individuals are working with the programme committee as 'producers' of particular sessions.

• Claire Bithell - Human Tissue Authority
• Craig Brierley - Wellcome Trust
• Peter Calami - Canada Foundation for Innovation
• Jennifer Dodd, Special Events Programming Manager, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Zoe Dunford - Institute of Food Research
• Jean-Marc Fleury - Bell Globemedia Chair in Science Journalism, University of Quebec
• Fiona Fox - Science Media Centre, London
• Ruth Francis - Nature Magazine
• Eric Glover - Courrier International, France
• Lyndal Gully - Australian Science Media Centre
• Phil Hilts - Director, Knight Science Journalism Fellowships, MIT
• Hepeng Jia - China Co,ordinator, SciDevNet
• Alison Leigh - Editorial director, World Congress of Science and Factual TV Producers
• Colin Macilwain - Editor, ResearchResearch
• Ehsan Masood - Nature magazine
• John Matlock, Director of Outreach and External Relations, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Becky McCall - Freelance
• Lisa Melton - News editor, Nature Biotechnology
• Martin Moore - Director, Media Standards Trust
• Oliver Morton - Nature magazine
• James Painter - Executive editor, Americas and Europe, BBC World Service
• Philippe Pajot - French Association for Science Journalists (AJSPI)
• James Randerson - Science Correspondent, The Guardian
• Kathy Redmond - Editor, Cancer World
• Cristine Russell - President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
• Kaianders Sempler - American Science Journalist and Illustrator, Board Member of EUSJA (EU Science Journalists’ Association)
• Mike Shanahan - International Institute for Environment and Development
• Laura Smillie - European Food Information Council
• Richard Stone - Asia Editor, Science Magazine
• Jane Sutton - Royal Academy of Engineers
• Jacqui Thornton - Freelance health writer
• John Travis - European News Editor, Science
• Jon Turney - Freelance science writer
• Jeremy Webb - Editor in chief, New Scientist