● Prof. Dr Mohamed Hassan, President, TWAS ● Prof. Dr Janina Onuki, Director, IRI - USP ● Prof. Dr Luiz Davidovich, Secretary-General, TWAS, and President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences ● Prof. Dr Ary Plonski, Director, IEA – USP ● Prof. Dr Virgílio de Almeida, Director, LACREP, TWAS ● Prof. Dr Sudip Parikh, CEO, AAAS

● Minister Ademar Seabra da Cruz Junior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil ● Moderator: Prof. Dr Iara Costa Leite, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

● Prof. Dr Xavier Barcons, Diretor Geral, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Chile ● Prof. Dr Laerte Sodré, Giant Magellan Telescope Brasil (GMTBrO) ● Moderator: Prof. Dr Hernan Chaimovich, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo

● Prof. Dr Luiz Davidovich, Secretary-General, TWAS, and President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences ● Moderator: Sec. Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil

● Dr Francisco Marmolejo, Education Advisor, Qatar Foundation ● Dra Ana Maria Carneiro, NEPP, State University of Campinas ● Dra Elisa Maria da Conceição Pereira Reis, Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) ● Mr Slaven Misljencevic, Policy Officer, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission ● Moderator: Prof. Dr Elizabeth Balbachevsky, FFLCH, USP

● Mr Tito Crissien Borrero, Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation, Colombia ● Prof. Dr Marcelo Knobel, Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, Unicamp ● Dr Lídia Brito, Regional Director of Science for LAC Region, UNESCO ● Prof. Dr Raymond Jagessar, President, The Caribbean Academy of Sciences ● Moderator: Dr Marga Gual Soler, Founder, SciDipGLOBAL and Advsior, EU Science Diplomacy Cluster

● Ambassador Sérgio Duarte, President of Pugwash ● Moderator: Dr Janina Onuki, Director, IRI-USP

●Prof. Dr. Germán Poveda, National University of Colombia and Member of the IPCCC ●Prof Dr Ambuj Sagar, Founding Head, School of Public Policy, India Institute of Technology Delhi ●Moderator: Marcella Ohira, Deputy Executive Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)

● Dr Sok Ching Cheong, Co-Chair, The TWAS Young Affiliates Network (TYAN) ● Dr Paulina Carmona, Biochemist / Gene regulation in human disease, Genome Center, University of California-Davis ● Dr Yusuf Baran, President of Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Izmir Technology Development Zone ● Moderator: Dr. Peter F. McGrath, Co-ordinator, InterAcademy Partnership and the TWAS Science Policy/Science Diplomacy programme

●Prof. Dr Virgílio de Almeida, Director, LACREP, TWAS. ●Sec. Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil. ●Ambassador Affonso Massot, Executive Secretary, International Relations Secretariat, State of São Paulo. ●Moderator: Prof. Dr Amâncio Oliveira, IRI – USP

● Prof. Dr Vahan Agopyan, President, University of São Paulo (USP) ● Prof. Dr Luiz Eugênio Mello, Scientific Director, FAPESP ● Prof. Dr Janina Onuki, Director, IRI - USP ● Prof. Dr Ary Plonski, Director, IEA – USP ● Prof. Dr Virgílio de Almeida, Director, LACREP, TWAS ● Prof. Dr Amâncio Oliveira, IRI - USP ● Sec. Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil

● Dr Harry Westfahl Jr, Director, National Laboratoty of Synchroton Sources, Brazil, Director, National Laboratoty of Synchroton Sources, Brazil ● Dr Gihan Kamel, Infrared Beamline Scientist, Synchroton-light project for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) ● Dr Pedro Fernandes Tavares, Vice Director, MAX IV Laboratory, Sweden ● Moderator: Ms Subhra Priyadarshini, Chief Editor, Nature India

●Prof. Simone Turchetti, University of Manchester, United Kingdom ●Prof. Roberto Lalli, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany ●Moderator: Pedro Figueroa, President, Latin American and Caribbean Network of Science Diplomacy

● Dr Nisia Trindade Lima, President, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil ● Prof. Dr Salim Abdool Karim, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University ● Prof. Dr Mauro Martins Teixeira, Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) ● Moderator: Mr Herton Escobar, Journalist, University of São Paulo

● Ms Elisabeth Epping, University of Luxembourg ● Moderator: Dr Gabriela Ferreira, IRI-USP

● Prof. Dr E. William Colglazier, Editor-in-Chief, Science & Diplomacy, AAAS, and 4th Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State (2011-2014), USA ● Moderator: Prof. Dr Marcos Nogueira Martins, USP Innovation Agency (AUSPIN)

● Dr Gabriela Bortz, National University of Quilmes, Argentina ● Dr Chagun Basha, Founding Member, Science Policy Forum ● Prof. Dr Ary Plonski, Director, IEA-USP ● Mr Julio Oliveira, CEO, Idea! Electronic Systems ● Moderator: Andrea Motta (UK Brazil Tech Hub Director)

● Dr Regis Cabral, Director, Funding for European Projects (FEPRO) ● Moderator: Sec. Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil

● Prof. Dr Caroline Ncube, Research Chair in IP, Innovation and Development, Department of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town ● Moderator: Prof. Dr Alberto Pfeifer, GACINT-USP

● Prof. Dr Lourdes Casanova, Emerging Markets Institute, Cornell University ● Moderator: Mr Juliano Seabra, Chief Innovation and Creativity Division, Inter-American Development Bank

● Prof. Dr Otaviano Canuto, George Washington University ● Moderator: Prof. Dr Moacyr Martucci Junior, Deputy Director, IRI-USP

● Counsellor Luciana Mancini, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil ● Dr Fredy Silva, Director, Red Inveca (Network of Chilean Researchers in Germany) ● Dr Vitor Pamplona, President, SciBr ● Dr Binod Khadria, Former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University ● Moderator: Prof. Dr Eduardo Couto, Director, LNBR, CNPEM

● Minister Eugênio Vargas Garcia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil ● Moderator: Prof. Dr João Paulo Cândia Veiga, Dean of the Department of Political Science and C4AI, USP

● H.E. Mr Martin Rauchbauer, Austrian Tech Ambassador in Silicon Valley and Consul General of Austria in San Francisco ● Mr Sebastian Wray, Chief Strategy Officer, Office of Denmark’s Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark ● Moderator: Counsellor Luis Fernando Corrêa da Silva Machado, Head of Division of Technology Promotion I, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil

● Prof. Dr Moacyr Martucci Junior, Deputy Director, IRI - USP ● Prof. Dr Roseli de Deus Lopes, Deputy Director, IEA – USP ● Prof. Dr Virgílio de Almeida, Director, LACREP, TWAS ● Prof. Dr Amâncio Oliveira, IRI - USP Sec. Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil