Who's Who

Meeting of the OECD Committee for
Scientific and Technological Policy at Ministerial Level
Paris, 29-30 January 2004

MINISTERS / HEADS OF DELEGATIONS

 

OECD MEMBER COUNTRIES

AUSTRALIA
Peter McGauran, Minister of Science (Chair)

AUSTRIA
Barbara Weitgruber, Director General, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

BELGIUM
Fientje Moerman, Minister for Economy, Energy, Foreign Trade and Science Policy

CANADA
Joe Fontana, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister with special emphasis on Science and Small Business

CZECH REPUBLIC
Petra Buzková, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports

DENMARK
Jens Peter Jacobsen, Director, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation

FINLAND
Tuula Irmeli Haatainen, Minister of Education and Science

FRANCE
Claudie Haignéré, Minister for Research and New Technologies (Vice-chair)

GERMANY
Herbert Diehl, Director General for European and International Affairs, Federal Ministry of Education and Research

GREECE
Akis Tsohatzopoulos, Minister of Development

HUNGARY
Bálint Magyar, Minister of Education

ICELAND
Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Minister of Education, Science and Culture

IRELAND
Mary Harney, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment

ITALY
Letizia Brichetto Arnaboldi Moratti, Minister for Education, Universities and Research

JAPAN
Yamato Inaba, Senior Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

KOREA
Mun-ki Lee, Director General, S&T Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)

LUXEMBOURG
Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research

MEXICO
Jaime Parada Ávila, Director General of the National Council on Science and Technology (Vice-chair)

NETHERLANDS
Maria van der Hoeven, Minister for Education, Culture and Science
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Minister of Economic Affairs

NEW ZEALAND
Helen Anderson, Chief Scientific Adviser/Acting Chief Executive, Ministry of Research, Science and Technology

NORWAY
Kristin Clemet, Minister of Research and Education

POLAND
Jan Krzysztof Frackowiak, Deputy Minister of Science

PORTUGAL
Maria da Graça Martins da Silva Carvalho, Minister for Science and Higher Education

SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Martin Fronc, Minister of Education

SPAIN
Pedro Morenés, Secretary of State for Science and Technology Policy

SWEDEN
David Samuelsson, Director of Planning, Ministry of Education and Science

SWITZERLAND
Pascal Couchepin, Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs

TURKEY
Sencar Özsoy, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Turkey to the OECD

UNITED KINGDOM
Jeremy Clayton, Director of Transdepartmental Science and Technology, Office of Science and Technology

UNITED STATES
John H. Marburger III, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
John Maddison, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the European Commission to the OECD 

OBSERVERS

CHINA
Liu Yanhua, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology

ISRAEL
Tali Rosenbaum, Director General, Ministry of Science and Technology

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Andrey Svinarenko, First Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies

SOUTH AFRICA
Baldwin Sipho Ngubane, Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology

 

COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Kamen Velev, Counsellor, Bureau of the Steering Comittee for Higher Education and Research
Deputy Minister of Science, Bulgaria 

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE (ICSU)
Thomas Rosswall, Executive Director

EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Bertil Andersson, Chief Executive

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANISATION (UNESCO)
Andras Szöllösi-Nagy, Deputy Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE OECD (BIAC)
Takaya Ishida, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Chair of the BIAC Technology Committee

TRADE UNION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE OECD (TUAC)
Bob Harris, Senior Consultant, EI / TUAC

 

Last update: 28 January 2004, 16:00 CET

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