Forum Speakers

Pierre Bilodeau, Vice-President, International Science & Technology Partnerships Canada (ISTP Canada)

Afonso J. Sena Cardoso, Consul General, Consulate General of Brazil

Patrick Deane, President & Vice Chancellor of McMaster University

Sean Donnelly , Vice President Technology and Continuous Improvement, ArcelorMittal Dofasco

Nicolas Duhaut, University Cooperation Attaché to the French Embassy in Canada

Mo Elbestawi, Vice-President,Research & International Affairs, McMaster University

Suzanne Fortier, President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

Chad Gaffield, President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Kevin Lynch, Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group

Hadi Mahabadi , Vice President, Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC)

The Right Honourable Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada

Gilles G. Patry, President & CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

Luo Weidong, Chancellor, University of Science
& Technology Beijing

Lynton "Red" Wilson, Chancellor, McMaster University

Panelists & Moderators

John Abbott, CEO, Health Council of Canada

Don Aldridge, Industry Executive, Research & Life Sciences, IBM Canada Ltd.

Yeihya Al-Khazraj, Director of Academic Relations, Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau

Anil Arora, Assistant Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada

Prakash Bharati, Director, India Science Lab, GM Global R&D, Bangalore

Doug Barber, Founder and former CEO & President, Gennum Inc.

Karen Booth, Executive Vice President, Mitacs

Michael Bowman, Chair & President, Delaware Technology Park, Inc.

Ricardo Renzo Brentani,CEO, State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

M.W. (Luke) Chan, Associate Vice-President, International Affairs, McMaster University

Arun Chockalingam , Director of Global Health, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Subhasis Chaudhuri, Dean of International Relations, IIT Bombay, India

Chris Eaton, Executive Director, World University Service Canada

Lorna Jean Edmonds, Executive Director (International Relations), University of Western Ontario

Richard Fajzel, General Manager and Head of the Canadian Oncology Business Unit, Pfizer Canada Inc.

Jun Fang, Counsel and Director for Education, Consulate-General, People's Republic of China in Toronto

Justin Gammage, Chief Scientist, General Motors Canada

Timothy A. Gonsalves, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

Danika Goosney, Director of Program Planning and Process, and the interim Director of Research Capacity Development in the Research Portfolio at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Michael K. Hawes, CEO, Fulbright Canada

Jennifer Jackman, Director, CANMET-Materials Technology Laboratory, Natural Resources Canada

Faiz Ahmed Khan, Dean Academic, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

William Kupferschmidt, Vice-President & General Manager, R&D, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

Janis Koyanagi, Vice President, Business Development & Strategy, Toronto Stock Exchange & TSX Venture Exchange

John Lavis, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange, McMaster University

Mark Levine, Professor and Chair, Department of Oncology, McMaster University

Tony Mancina, Director, Engineering, Chrysler Canada Automotive R & D Centre (ARDC)

Jean-Marc Mangin, Executive Director, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Bill Mantel,  Assistant Deputy Minister (Acting), Ministry of Research and Innovation, Science and Research Division,  Government of Ontario

Sam Marcuson, Vice-President, Business Improvement, Vale Canada Ltd.

Philipp Marxgut, Director & Attaché for Science and Technology, Embassy of Austria

Peter Mascher, Associate Dean of External Relations, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University

Thom Mason, Laboratory Director , Oakridge National Laboratory

Pratap K.J. Mohapatra, Dean, Postgraduate Studies & Research, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Chandrabhas Narayana, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)

Leo Owsiacki, Deputy Executive Director, International Science and Technology Centre, Russia

Bonnie Patterson , President and CEO, Council of Ontario Universities

Patricio Powell, Consul General, Consul General of Chile, Toronto

John Preece, Acting Science & Innovation Officer, British Consulate-General, Toronto

Jessica Robin, Office of International Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation

George Ross, Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

Rana Sarkar, President & CEO, Canada-India Business Council

Frank Saunders, Vice-President, (Nuclear Oversight and Regulatory Affairs), Bruce Power

Howard Shearer, President & CEO, Hitachi Canada Inc.

Kevin Smith, President & CEO, St. Joseph's Health System and Chair of the Board, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

Byron Spencer, Director, Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population, McMaster University

Christian Turquat, Scientific Attaché, Consulate General de France

The Honourable Tony Valeri, VP, Corporate Communications & Public Affairs, ArcelorMittalDofasco Inc.

Vivek Vijay , Faculty Affairs, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Rajasthan

Max Voegler, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), German Research Foundation, Director, DFG North America Office

Bob Walker, Senior Vice President, Nuclear Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

Gerard Wright, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Studies of Antibiotics, and Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research

Dezi Yang, Vice-President, Engineering, SNC-Lavalin Nuclear Inc.

Wenjun Zhang , Vice President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University