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Arjuna Aluwihare, Sri Lanka
Arjuna Aluwihare is emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. He was vice chancellor of the University from 1988 to 1989 and then chairman of the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka from 1989 to 1993. He is the immediate past president of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. Dr. Aluwihare was a member of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2000. Dorairajan Balasubramanian, India
Dorairajan Balasubramanian is a biological scientist, and currently Director of Research at the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. In addition, he is the Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, and the Immediate Past President of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India. He is Fellow of all the 3 science academies of India, of the Indian Academy of Social Sciences, German Academy of Sciences, TWAS, Mauritian Academy of Sciences & Technology and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of UNESCO’s International Basic Sciences Panel. A winner of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science, he writes a fortnightly column on science in the national English language newspaper of India, “The Hindu,” and is engaged in the area of public understanding of science.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, France
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is research scientist at the Department of Physics of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1973 he became professor of atomic and molecular physics at the Collège de France. Professor Cohen-Tannoudji is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and chairman of its Committee for the Defense of Scientists. He is a member of the International Scientific Council of the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization. In 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Steven Chu, and William D. Phillips were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their development of techniques that use laser light to cool atoms to extremely low temperatures.”
Abdallah S. Daar, Oman/Canada
Abdallah S. Daar is professor of public health sciences and of surgery at the University of Toronto. He is also senior scientist and director of the Program on Ethics and Commercialization at McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health and director of ethics and policy at the University of Toronto’s McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine. His major research focus is on the use of life sciences to ameliorate global health inequities, with a particular focus on building scientific capacity and increasing innovation in developing countries, in addition to studying how technologies can be rapidly taken from “lab to village.” In 2005 he was awarded the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics of Science.
Felton Earls, United States of America
Felton Earls is professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor of human behavior and development at the Harvard School of Public Health. He currently is principal investigator of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and the Ecology of HIV/AIDS and Child Mental Health in Tanzania. Dr. Earls is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is a member of the board of directors of Physicians for Human Rights, and a member of the Committee on Human Rights of the U.S. National Academies.
François Jacob, France
François Jacob is professor emeritus at the Collège de France and the former director of the Institut Pasteur in Paris. He is a member of l’Académie Française and the French Academy of Sciences. He is former long time chair of the French Academy of Sciences Comité de Défense des Hommes de Sciences. In 1965 Professor Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.” Other awards include Gran Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer, the Lewis Thomas Prize for writing about science, and, for his heroic wartime service, Cross of Liberation, Légion d’honneur, and Croix de Guerre.
Belita Koiller, Brazil
Belita Koiller is professor of physics at the Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She is the first women to be elected a full member to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in physical sciences, and she has been a research fellow of the Brazilian National Research Council since 1985. In 1982 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, in 1994, she served as a member of the International Council for Science’s Committee on Capacity Building in Science. She was decorated “Comendador da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico” by the Presidency of Brazil in 2002. Professor Koiller is a L’Oréal UNESCO 2005 Laureate for Women in Physical Sciences.
Pedro León Azofeifa, Costa Rica
Pedro León Azofeifa, a biologist, is director of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Costa Rica. He established, in collaboration with Gabriel Macaya and Rodrigo Gámez, the first molecular biology lab in Costa Rica, in which he conducted research in genetics and molecular biology for 25 years. His communication skills were recognized by the medical students of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in 2002 with the "Quijote" award for teaching. He serves as scientific advisor to former Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias Sánchez, and was instrumental in establishing the National Park system of Costa Rica. Dr. León is a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences--Costa Rica, foreign associate of the Latin American Academy of Sciences (ACAL), and foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States since 2004. Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye, Senegal
Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye has a doctorate in Veterinary Sciences from the Univeristy of Lyon and a Certificate of Advanced Agronomic Studies from the National Agronomic Institute of Paris. He is founding Vice-Chancellor of the Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Subsequently he was appointed Minister Councillor to the President of Senegal and served many years as a member and subsequently Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council. He has served as member of the Drafting Committee of the World Conference on Higher Education, member of the Board of the United Nations University, and member of the executive board of the Association of African Universities. Professor Ndiaye is vice president of the Senegalese Academy of Sciences, member of the African Academy of Sciences, and member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. Ida Nicolaisen, Denmark
Ida Nicolaisen is a senior research fellow at Copenhagen University. She has conducted extensive anthropological research among the pastoral Tuareg of North Africa, the Haddad of Chad, and the Punan Bah of Central Borneo. She is the editor-in-chief of the Carlsberg Foundation Nomad Research. Ida Nicolaisen has been vice-chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Board of the Danish Development Collaboration. She serves on various international boards, including the World Diabetes Foundation, Humanity in Action, Israeli-Palestinian ScienceOrganization, All European Academies’ Ethical Commission, the Chittagong Hill Tract Commission, and the Soeren Kierkegaard Research Centre. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
John Polanyi, Canada
John Polanyi is professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1960 he was the founding chair of the Canadian Pugwash Group, where he remained chair until 1978. He has published over 100 articles on peace and human rights and is currently president of a human rights organization, the Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars. In 1986 John Polanyi, Dudley Herschbach, and Yuan T. Lee were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.”
Alenka Šelih, Slovenia
Alenka Šelih is professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana where she taught criminal law, criminal law for juveniles, victimology, and criminology. She has lectured at the universities of Brussels, Graz, Cracow, Munich, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Warsaw, and Zagreb, among others. As author or co-author, she has published 8 books and over 300 articles, research reports, and reviews in Slovenian, English, French, German, Polish, and Serbo-Croatian. In 1990 she was Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Law. Professor Šelih is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and served as its vice-president from 2005 to 2008.
Carol Corillon, Executive Director
Carol Corillon has been director of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) of the National Academies in Washington, D.C. since 1983 and, since 1993, executive director of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies. She was executive director of Friends of the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, USA and is a member of Human Rights Watch/Africa and the International Council for Science’s Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in Science. From 1980-1984 she worked for the National Research Council's Committee on the Sahel and, from 1970-1980, as a freelance print and broadcast journalist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, working for BBC radio, The Economist, and other publications.
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