Session IV, Roundtable A:
Building R&D capacity in developing countries

• Chairperson:  Geoffrey Oldham, former Director, SPRU, U. of Sussex
• Claudio Wernli, Executive Director, Millennium Science Initiative Chile
  [: 22minutes] [Presentation , 279KB]
• Fernando Chaparro, U. del Rosario, ex Director of Colciencias, Colombia
  [: 16minutes] [Presentation , 4.9MB]
• Regional Mechanisms for supporting R&D in Developing Countries
  • Jeffrey Fine [: 18minutes] [Presentation , 96KB]
    Investing in STI in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Collaborative Initiatives in Research and Higher Education [Paper, 193KB]
  • Sonia Plaza [: 14minutes] [Presentation , 39KB]
  • Wole Soboyejo  (African Institutes for Science and Technology) [: 18minutes] [Presentation , 306KB]
• Phillip Griffiths, Chair, Science Initiative Group; Professor of Mathematics and Director Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
  [: 15minutes] [Presentation , 36KB]

Session IV, Roundtable B:
Harnessing R&D capacity from OECD countries (MNCs, Foundation activities, academia, govt. institutions)

• Chairperson:  Alfred Watkins, Science and Technology Coordinator, World Bank
• Gordon Conway, Chief Scientific Advisor, DFID
  [: 18minutes]
• Richard Adams, Senior Vice President, International Partnerships, Battelle Inc.
  [: 18minutes]] [Presentation , 829KB]
• Bonnie Patterson, President, Trent University; Chair, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
  [: 15minutes] [Presentation - pps, 158KB]
• Paul Dufour, Senior Advisor, International Affairs, Office of the National Science Advisor, Canada
  [: 20minutes] [Presentation , 560KB]
• Shere Abbott, University of Texas

Closing Keynote

Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Getting Science out of the Silo and into the Mainstream of Development 
[: 15minutes]