THE VALUES OF SCIENCE:

TOWARDS AN ETHICAL
CHARTER FOR EUROPEAN
RESEARCH
BRUSSELS, 5 NOVEMBER 2013

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Summary
Background: The growing importance of science and technology in our society raises
ever-more pressing questions of values and ethics. For instance, what is more important:
supporting excellent research wherever it may be, or maintaining principles of equality
and fairness in the distribution of funding? Is the primary purpose of research to generate
knowledge, or to create jobs and promote economic growth? What responsibility, if any, do
researchers and their funders have to ensure their work is used for the good of society? There
are many more such questions – and, as the first call for proposals for Horizon 2020 will be
announced 11 December, their urgency will rise for academic researchers, corporate labs, and
public-sector funders. At issue are the broader values of science, not merely its economic or
social value.

Objective: As Horizon 2020 begins, this meeting is intended to draw attention to, and
encourage some new thinking about, the ethical quandaries posed by expanded public
funding for research and innovation. There are no pre-conceptions about what might be the
“right” answers to these questions – or if, indeed, it is possible to have any definitive answers.
Our debate will be informal and under Chatham House rules, and will work towards the
drafting of a new Charter for European Research. This will be a short, simple document which
we will publicise, along with a report of our meeting, in an effort to improve the quality of
decision-making on Horizon 2020 calls.

The format: This is a very broad field – and trying to get a bird’s-eye view of it, independent
of the Commission’s normal system of advisory committees, is our aim. To that end, we have
grouped some of the key issues into three broad fields, and have invited two guests to kick off
the debate for each one. After that brief introduction, all are welcome to participate equally
in the debate.

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AN ETHICAL CHARTER FOR EUROPEAN
RESEARCH
BRUSSELS, 5 NOVEMBER 2013

AGENDA

10:00 Welcome Coffee

10:30 Welcome: Atle Leikvoll, Ambassador of Norway to the EU

10:35 Introduction and ground rules: John Wood, Secretary-

General, Association of Commonwealth Universities

10:45 Issue 1: Who benefits? (Private gain vs. public good)

■■ Luc Soete, Rector Magnificus, University of Maastricht

■■ Ioannis A. Tsoukalas, Member of the European Parliament

11:45 Issue 2: Is the money well-spent? (Trust vs. accountability)

■■ Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to President José Manuel Barroso,

European Commission
■■ Karin Markides, President and CEO, Chalmers University of Technology

12:45 Buffet lunch

13:15 Issue 3: Who’s the boss? (Freedom vs. solidarity)

■■ Jim Dratwa, Head of Ethics in Science and New Technologies, Bureau of

European Policy Advisers, European Commission
■■ Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Member of the European Parliament

14:15 Summary: John Wood and Richard L. Hudson, CEO &

Editor, Science|Business

14:30 Coffee

Gérald Achermann
Lecturer in Research Ethics, ETH
Zürich
Gérald Achermann has conducted various modules
and PhD-seminars in research ethics at ETH Zürich
since 2006. He has more than ten years’ experience in
research management, including as managing director
of the ethics committee at ETH Zürich from 2008 to
2010, and as initiator and manager of a project to
update the “Guidelines for Research Integrity and good
scientific practice at ETH Zürich”. Achermann holds a
Master’s degree in advanced studies in applied ethics
and a PhD in environmental sciences from ETH Zürich.
Diana Jane Beech
Research Associate, The Faraday
Institute for Science and Religion,
University of Cambridge
Diana Jane Beech is a research associate at the Faraday
Institute, where she explores the possibility of bringing
a values-driven approach to the European science
policymaking process. She is also co-founder of an
international collaborative research network on the
European Research Area, supported by the University
Association for Contemporary European Studies
(UACES), and is an active member of the EURAXESS-
initiated ‘Voice of the Researchers’ panel, dedicated
to giving grassroots researchers a voice in European
Research Area policies.
FEATURED GUESTS
Anton Anton
Professor, Department of Hydraulics
and Environmental Protection,
Technical University of Civil
Engineering of Bucharest
Anton Anton has been a professor at the Technical
University of Civil Engineering since 1995, and became
the Vice Rector for Research in 2008. His interest
lies mainly in ferrohydrodynamics, experimental
hydraulics, hydraulic machineries, urban hydraulics
and urban politics. In 2008, he became the Romanian
Minister of Education, Research and Youth. He was
previously the President of the National Agency for
Scientific Research, from 2005 to 2008. Anton is a
member of the Romanian Technical Science Academy
(ASTR), the European Academy of Science and Arts
(EASA), the Romanian Water Association (ARA), and
the International Urban Fellows Association (IUFA).
Jean-Claude Burgelman
Head of Unit, Relations with
Stakeholders, DG Research and
Innovation, European Commission
Jean-Claude Burgelman is Head of Unit for relations
with stakeholders in DG Research and Innovation,
and is in charge of top level advisory boards, such as
the European Research and Innovation Area Board,
the Innovation for Growth Group and the European
Forum for Forward Looking Activities. He joined the
Commission in 1999, and previously held the position
of adviser for innovation policy at the Bureau of
European Policy Advisers. Burgelman was a professor
of communication technology policy at the Free
University of Brussels until 2000, as well as director
of the Centre for Studies on Media, Information and
Telecommunication. He chaired the World Economic
Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation and was
a member of its Science Advisory Committee.

FEATURED GUESTS
Mario Calderini
Professor & Director of the
Intellectual Property Finance
Institute, Politecnico di Torino;
Member of the Board of Directors,
Italian National Agency for
Innovation
Mario Calderini is a professor of strategy and innovation
management at Politecnico di Torino. He sits on the
Board of Directors of the Italian National Agency for
Innovation, and was recently appointed to the strategic
board of the National Council of Research. Calderini is
also a member of the European Patent Office Academy
Advisory Board. He was previously the President of
Finpiemonte, the regional development agency of
the Piemonte Region, and has advised the Italian
ministry of research and innovation policies. He is
the author of numerous publications on technology
and innovation policies.
Kurt Deketelaere
Secretary-General of the League
of European Research Universities
(LERU)
Kurt Deketelaere was chief of staff to the Flemish
Minister for Public Works, Energy, Environment and
Nature from 2007 to 2009, and chief legal advisor to
the same ministry from 2004 to 2007. He is also a
professor of law at KU Leuven, where he is on part-
time leave since 2007. Deketelaere has published
extensively in the field of EU environmental, energy
and climate change law. He chairs the Board of
Directors of the Flemish Energy Regulator, is chair of
the Flemish Environmental Damages Commission, and
co-chair of the Malta Legal Forum on Adaptation to
Climate Change.
THE VALUES OF SCIENCE: TOWARDS
AN ETHICAL CHARTER FOR EUROPEAN
RESEARCH
BRUSSELS, 5 NOVEMBER 2013
Vanessa Campo-Ruiz
Science Officer to the Chief
Executive, European Science
Foundation
Vanessa Campo-Ruiz is a physician scientist trained
in business management and European affairs, with
experience at Harvard University and the Karolinska
Institute. Her work focuses on building strategic global
partnerships and managing corporate advocacy and
overarching science policy initiatives. Campo- Ruiz is a
member of the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Advisory Group of the European Commission, the WHO
European Advisory Committee on Health Research,
and various committees of the Council of Europe and
the European Parliament. She has authored reports
on international education programmes, stem cell
policies and legislative frameworks across Europe.
Jim Dratwa
Head of Ethics in Science and
New Technologies, Bureau of
European Policy Advisers, European
Commission
Jim Dratwa chairs the European Commission inter-
service group on ethics and EU policies, and acts
as the Commission’s representative in the relevant
organisations dealing with the ethical implications of
science and new technologies, such as the Council of
Europe, the OECD, and UN agencies. He is the editor
of the EU series on ethics as well as the European
Group on Ethics opinions and cognate publications.
Dratwa is also the Secretary-General of the European
Commission International Dialogue on Bioethics, a
platform bringing together national ethics councils
from 42 countries. He has taught at the École des
Mines de Paris, Harvard University, and the universities
of Brussels.

Pavel Exner
Vice President, Scientific Council,
European Research Council
Pavel Exner is the scientific director of the Doppler
Institute for Mathematical Physics and Applied
Mathematics in Prague. He is a former president of
the International Association for Mathematical Physics.
From 1978 to 1990, he worked in the Joint Institute for
Nuclear Research at Dubna. Exner later lead a research
team at the Czech Academy of Sciences and taught
mathematics and physics at Charles University. He is
the author of three books and more than two hundred
research papers. He has been awarded the JINR prize
in theoretical physics and the Czech Physical Society
medal. He is also a member of Academia Europaea.
Anne Glover
Chief Scientific Adviser to José
Manuel Barroso, President of the
European Commission
Anne Glover became the first person to hold the
position of Chief Scientific Adviser to the Commission
President in January 2012. She advises the President
on any aspect of science and technology, liaises with
other science advisory bodies, coordinates science
and technology foresight, and promotes the European
culture of science to a wide audience. She also chairs
the recently established Science & Technology Advisory
Council of the President. Glover was Chief Scientific
Adviser for Scotland from 2006-2011 and holds a
Personal Chair of Molecular and Cell Biology at the
University of Aberdeen.
FEATURED GUESTS
Hallvard Fossheim
Director, Norwegian National
Research Ethics Committee for the
Social Sciences and Humanities
Hallvard Fossheim is director of the Norwegian National
Research Ethics Committee for the Social Sciences and
Humanities. His background is in philosophy and ethics.
Recently, Fossheim has published and presented work
on topic such as Internet research ethics, researchers’
confidentiality, cross-cultural child research, and the
ethics of population-based DNA research.
Daria Gołębiowska-
Tataj
Governing Board Member,
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology
Daria Gołębiowska-Tataj is a founding President of
the Polish Chapter of Vital Voices Global Partnership,
a foundation that invests in women leaders. She is
also a member of the World Economic Forum Global
Agenda Council on Design Innovation. She has recently
published a book, “Entrepreneurial Innovation
Networks. Knowledge Triangle and Emerging Business
Models”, which presents her academic research on
creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship and
their impact on value creation in a networked global
environment.

FEATURED GUESTS
Kamal Hossain
Director, Research and
International, National Physical
Laboratory, UK
Kamal Hossain is responsible for the strategic
development of the National Physical Laboratory’s
scientific capability, as well as leading its international
work. He is the Chair of EURAMET, the European
Association of Metrology Institutes, which runs a €400
million European Metrology Research Programme,
funded jointly by the European Commission and 23
European countries. He has served as an expert advisor
to the Commission in Framework Programme 6 and
Framework Programme 7 for the NMP Programme
(nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new
production technologies).
Helene Ingierd
Director, Norwegian National
Commission for Research Ethics in
Science and Technology
Helene Ingierd is director of the Norwegian National
Commission for Research Ethics in Science and
Technology. She holds a PhD in political science.
Ingierd has presented and published work on the ethics
of soldiers, an oath for scientists and researchers’
confidentiality, among other things.
THE VALUES OF SCIENCE: TOWARDS
AN ETHICAL CHARTER FOR EUROPEAN
RESEARCH
BRUSSELS, 5 NOVEMBER 2013
Richard L. Hudson
CEO & Editor, Science|Business
Richard L. Hudson has been a leading science and
technology journalist in Europe for more than thirty
years. As managing editor of the Wall Street Journal
Europe from 1997 to 2003, he helped lead a redesign
of the title in 2000. He co-founded Science|Business
in 2004. He is also co-author of a book with Yale/
IBM mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot: “The (mis)
Behaviour of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin &
reward”: Basic Books 2004. He is a graduate of Harvard
and a former Knight Fellow at MIT.
Kimmo Koski
Managing Director, Centre for
Scientific Computing, Finland
Kimmo Koski has worked as managing director of the
Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC) since August
2004. During this period, he has been active in
building European high performance computing and
data infrastructure. Koski acted as the vice chair of
the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in
Europe) council in 2010-2013 and the coordinator of
EUDAT (European Data Infrastructure) since October
2011. Prior to this, he spent over four years in the
Nokia Research Center and Nokia Technology Platform.
His earlier work experience includes ten years at CSC
in various positions and a one-year visiting period in
CERN in Switzerland.

Atle Leikvoll
Ambassador of Norway to the EU
Atle Leikvoll has served as the Ambassador of Norway
to the EU, Norway’s largest foreign mission, since
September 2011. Before this, he served as Deputy
Secretary General of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for six years. He was Consul General in New
York from 1999 to 2003. Ambassador Leikvoll has
held several management positions in the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, including as Director General of
the Department for European Affairs and Bilateral
Relations with North America. In the beginning of
the 1990’s, Ambassador Leikvoll participated in the
membership negotiations between Norway and the
EU, with a particular responsibility for the environment.
Monica Marinucci
Director for the Research Industry,
Oracle Europe, Middle East and
Africa
Monica Marinucci is responsible for developing the
research market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa,
coordinating related activities and supporting the
teams in these countries. She also holds worldwide
responsibilities for the establishment of strategies and
solutions for this market segment. Marinucci has been
acting as an expert for the European Commission since
2007 and is a member of several high-level expert
groups. Prior to Oracle, she worked at CERN. She holds
a university degree in applied mathematics.
FEATURED GUESTS
Karen Maex
Professor in Materials Physics
and Nanoelectronics, KU Leuven
Karen Maex has been a professor in KU Leuven since
1998, where she has established a strong research
collaboration with the Imec micro- and nanoelectronics
research centre and has held various executive
functions within Imec. She served as KU Leuven’s
Vice Rector for Science, Engineering and Technology
from August 2005 until August 2013. Maex has been
a member of the Governing Board of the European
Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) since
2008.
Karin Markides
President and CEO, Chalmers
University of Technology
Karin Markides became President and CEO of Chalmers
in August 2006, following a career as a professor of
analytical chemistry. She was Deputy Director General
at Vinnova, a state agency financing research and
innovation for sustainable development, from 2004-
2006. Markides was also a board member of the
Swedish Research Council Committee for Research
Infrastructure, and the Swedish Foundation for
Strategic Research, as well as several tech start-up
companies in the US. She was recently made Chair
of CESAR (The Conference of European Schools for
Advanced Engineering Education and Research) for
a two-year term.

FEATURED GUESTS
Sarah Moore
Science Officer, European Science
Foundation
Sarah Moore has been Science Officer at the European
Science Foundation (ESF) since 2008, working primarily
on international research programmes and strategic
activities in the social sciences and humanities. She is
currently managing the MERIL Portal, a pan-European
registry of openly accessible research infrastructures.
Before coming to the ESF, Moore worked at the Irish
Research Council for the Humanities and Social
Sciences (IRCHSS) and the European Commission’s
Centre for Research on Education and Lifelong Learning
(CRELL) at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.
Žaneta Ozoliņa
Professor, Department of Political
Science, University of Latvia
Žaneta Ozoliņa has been a professor in the Department
of Political Science since 2002, where her research
has focused on European integration, EU and NATO
enlargement, and international and regional security.
She was the Chairwoman of the Strategic Analysis
Commission, established by the President of Latvia,
from 2004 to 2008. Ozoliņa was a member of the
European Research Area Board from 2008 to 2012,
a consultative body established by the European
Commission. She is a co-author of the “Global
Governance of Science” report, published by the
European Commission.
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AN ETHICAL CHARTER FOR EUROPEAN
RESEARCH
BRUSSELS, 5 NOVEMBER 2013
Herman Nys
Professor in Health Law, Faculties of
Medicine and Law, KU Leuven
Herman Nys has been the Director of the Center of
Biomedical Ethics and Law at KU Leuven since 1989.
He is a member of the European Group on Ethics of
Science and New Technologies and an editor of the
International Encyclopedia of Medical Law. Nys is also
Editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Health Law.
He was formerly a professor in international health
law at the University of Maastricht from 2000 to 2005.
Maria do Céu Patrão
Neves
Member of the European
Parliament
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves has been a member of
the European Parliament in the European People’s
Party since 2009. She serves as a member of the
Fisheries Committee and the Agricultural and Rural
Development Committee. She was not politically
active before joining the Parliament, but she was the
regional delegate for the Azores in Aníbal Cavaco Silva’s
presidency campaigns in 2006 and 2011. Patrão Neves
was a member of the President’s staff from 2006 to
2009, as a consultant for bioethical issues. She is also
a professor of philosophy for ethics and philosophical
anthropology at the University of the Azores.

Jos B. Peeters
Founder and Managing Partner of
Capricorn Venture Partners
Jos B. Peeters is regarded as one of the pioneers of
the European venture capital industry, being active in
this area since 1985. He is a founder and director of
EASDAQ, which is relaunching as Equiduct, a regulated
market for secondary trading in Europe. He is a former
chairman of the European Private Equity & Venture
Capital Association (EVCA), a member of the Global
Advisory Board of London Business School and
Chairman of Science@Leuven, the alumni association
for science students at KU Leuven. Peeters has a PhD
in physics from KU Leuven.
Vincent Reillon
Senior Science Officer, Science
Europe
Vincent Reillon leads the scientific committee on
physics, chemistry and mathematics at Science
Europe. He previously worked in the network for
science cooperation at the French Ministry for Foreign
Affairs. He was first assigned to the French Embassy
Office for Science and Technology in the United States
of America, before joining the Office of the French
Embassy in Spain. He obtained his PhD in nanosciences
at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.
FEATURED GUESTS
Laura Pontiggia
Policy Adviser, European
Research Council
Laura Pontiggia is the secretary of the Standing
Committee on Conflict of Interest, Scientific Misconduct
and Ethical Issues (CoIME) at the European Research
Council (ERC). She also supports the ERC scientific
council in its dialogue with industry and in monitoring
and evaluating the impact of frontier research on
innovation and economic growth. Pontiggia has a
degree in economics from Bocconi University, Milan.
Luc Soete
Rector Magnificus, Maastricht
University
Luc Soete has been Chair of International Economic
Relations at Maastricht University since 1986. He is
also the Director of the United Nations University-
Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation
and Technology (UNU-MERIT). Soete is a member
of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the
Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy
in the Netherlands.

FEATURED GUESTS
Robert Sorrell
Vice President for Public
Partnerships, BP
Robert Sorrell is the Associate Director for the BP
International Centre for Advanced Materials; a 10-
year $100m investment by BP with the hub at the
University of Manchester. He is also BP’s technology
policy advisor for the UK and EU. In 2006, Sorrell
was appointed as BP’s Vice President for Refining &
Marketing Technology Strategy. He was responsible for
developing BP’s long term technology strategy across
its global fuels, lubricants, refining and chemicals
businesses. Sorrell is on the board of Breathing
Buildings, a natural ventilation company, as a non-
executive Director, and is also on the board of the UK
Technology Strategy Board.
Elżbieta Szeląg
Professor in Neuroscience, Nencki
Institute of Experimental Biology
Elżbieta Szeląg is Head of the Laboratory of Psychology
at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology. She
also holds the Chair in Neurorehabilitation at the
University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw,
where she has been the President of the Senate Ethics
Committee since 2006. Szeląg is also Vice-Chair of
the European Cooperation in Science and Technology
(COST) Framework Programme Six action on Time in
Mental Activities (TIMELY). She is a member of the
Human Science Centre at the University of Munich.
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AN ETHICAL CHARTER FOR EUROPEAN
RESEARCH
BRUSSELS, 5 NOVEMBER 2013
Mårten Steen
Partner, HealthCap
Mårten Steen previously worked with business
development at Merck Serona. He is a medical doctor,
trained at Lund University. Steen pursued research
in the field of protein chemistry and coagulation
at Lund University and Novo Nordisk, resulting in a
PhD in clinical chemistry in 2003. He is the author
of 16 scientific papers and has been published in
peer-reviewed journals. He also has a B.Sc. degree
in business administration from the Lund University
School of Economics and Management.
Peter Tindemans
Secretary-General, EuroScience
Peter Tindemans has been Secretary-General at
EuroScience since February 2012, having served as a
member of the EuroScience Governing Board and a
member of the EuroScience Open Forum Supervisory
Board. He has worked with the World Bank, UNESCO
and governments in Africa, Latin and Central America,
Europe and Asia on innovation policies. Tindemans
chaired the OECD Megascience Forum from 1992
to 1999. He was responsible for the coordination of
Dutch research and science policy from 1991 to 1998.
He was a member of the EUREKA High Level Group
and chaired the COSINE Policy Group for the first pan-
European data networking backbone.

Ioannis A. Tsoukalas
Member of the European
Parliament
Ioannis A. Tsoukalas serves as a member of the
European Parliament’s Committee on Industry,
Research and Energy, where he is actively involved in
issues such as the EU’s research and innovation policy,
information society, the European Digital Agenda,
new generation networks, the Internet of Things,
computer ethics, data protection, and privacy. He was
the Secretary General for Research and Technology at
the Hellenic Ministry of Development from 2004 to
2008. He became a professor in the physics department
at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki in 1986, and then
founded and became the first Head of Department of
Informatics at the university in 1995.
Bernard Vergnes
Chairman, European Executive
Council
Bernard Vergnes acts as Chair of the European
Executive Council, after twenty five years’ experience in
the computer industry. He joined Microsoft in 1983 as
General Manager and served as Senior Vice President
and Chairman Emeritus for Microsoft Europe, Middle
East and Africa (EMEA). Vergnes previously worked for
the American mini-computer manufacturer Modcomp
and in management positions in Benelux, England
and France.
FEATURED GUESTS
Esther van Zimmeren
Research Professor, University of
Antwerp
Esther van Zimmeren is a research professor at the
University of Antwerp. She is also involved in the LL.M.-
program on competition and intellectual property
(IP) law at the University of Liège. Before joining
the University of Antwerp, she was a post-doctoral
researcher at the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights
at the KU Leuven. She has particular expertise with
respect to IP law, innovation policy, technology transfer,
public and private governance and IP, IP licensing
practices, the interface between IP and competition
law, contract law and international trade law. Most
of her research projects are interdisciplinary (with
economists, political scientists, etc.).
John Wood
Secretary-General, Association of
Commonwealth Universities
John Wood is a founder member and former chair of the
European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures,
the first chair of the European Research Area Board. He
was also chair of the “Riding the wave report on data”
for the European Commission. Wood has held academic
posts at the Open University and at the University of
Nottingham as Dean of Engineering. He was then
seconded to the Council for the Central Laboratory of
the Research Councils as Chief Executive responsible
for large scale international science facilities. His last
academic post was at Imperial College. He has a PhD
from Cambridge University.
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AN ETHICAL CHARTER FOR EUROPEAN
RESEARCH
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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Gérald Achermann, Biology Lecturer, ETH Zürich

Anton Anton, Professor, Department of Hydraulics and Environmental Protection, Technical University of Civil
Engineering of Bucharest; former Romanian Minister of Education, Research and Youth

Diana Jane Beech, Research Associate, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, University of Cambridge

Jean-Claude Burgelman, Head of Unit, Relations with Stakeholders, DG Research and Innovation, European
Commission

Mario Calderini, Professor & Director of the Intellectual Property Finance Institute, Politecnico di Torino; Member of
the Board of Directors, Italian National Agency for Innovation

Vanessa Campo-Ruiz, Science Officer to the Chief Executive, European Science Foundation

Kurt Deketelaere, Secretary General, League of European Research Universities

Jim Dratwa, Head of Ethics in Science and New Technologies, Bureau of European Policy Advisers, European
Commission

Pavel Exner, Vice-President of the Scientific Council, European Research Council

Hallvard Fossheim, Director, The National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
(NESH), Norway

Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to President José Manuel Barroso, European Commission

Daria Gołębiowska-Tataj, Governing Board Member, European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT);
Researcher, Warsaw University of Technology Business School

Helene Ingierd, Director, The National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology, Norway

Kamal Hossain, Director, Research & International, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom

Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

Kimmo Koski, Managing Director, Centre for Scientific Computing, Finland

Atle Leikvoll, Ambassador of Norway to the EU

Karen Maex, Professor in Materials Physics and Nanoelectronics, KU Leuven

Monica Marinucci, Director for the Research Industry for Europe, Middle East & Africa, Oracle

Karin Markides, President & Chief Executive Officer, Chalmers University

Sarah Moore, Science Officer for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, European Science Foundation (ESF)

Herman Nys, Professor & Director of the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven

Joanne O’Dea, News Editor, Science|Business

Žaneta Ozoliņa, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Latvia

 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Member of the European Parliament 

Jos B. Peeters, Managing Partner, Capricorn Ventures

Laura Pontiggia, Policy Adviser, European Research Council

Vincent Reillon, Senior Scientific Officer for the Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Scientific Committee, Science
Europe

Panagiotis Siozos, Science and Policy Adviser to Ioannis A. Tsoukalas, Member of the European Parliament

Luc Soete, Rector Magnificus, Maastricht University

Robert Sorrell, Vice President for Public Partnerships, BP

Mårten Steen, Partner, HealthCap

Elżbieta Szeląg, Professor & Head of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

Peter Tindemans, Secretary General, EuroScience

Ioannis A. Tsoukalas, Member of the European Parliament

Esther van Zimmeren, Research Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for
Intellectual Property Rights, Faculty of Law, KU Leuven

Bernard Vergnes, Chairman, European Executive Council

John Wood, Secretary-General, Association of Commonwealth Universities

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