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Climate Change, Rising Asian Powers and the Energy |
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Mr. Joschka Fischer () |
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International Corporate Relations Office, International Corporate Relations Office
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Speaker's Bio:
Joschka Fischer was born in Gerabronn in Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany on April 12, 1948, the third child of a German family, which had for many generations settled in Hungary. His family was expelled after the Soviet occupation in 1946.
Mr. Fischer entered politics in 1968 at the height of the German student movement. In 1982 he joined the newly-formed Green party. One year later he was elected to the first Green Party Fraction to serve in the federal German parliament, the Bundestag. Soon thereafter he became one of the leading figureheads of the German Green movement. In December 1985 he was sworn in as the first ever Green Party Minister in the federal state of Hesse where the held the portfolios of the Environment and Energy. From 1987 to 1991 Mr. Fischer was Head of the Green Party Parliamentary Fraction in the State Legislature of Hesse and from 1991 to 1994 he served a second tenure as Hessian Minister of the Environment and Energy and held the additional portfolios of Federal Affairs and Deputy Minister President.
Following the re-election of the Green Party to the German Bundestag in 1994, Joschka Fischer became co-chairman of the Greens' federal parliamentary fraction. During his years as an opposition leader, he leveraged his party's growing public acceptance into political success and moved the Green Party to the centre of German politics, paving the way for participations in the nation's federal movement.
In September 1998 the Social Democrats, led by Gerhard Schrder, were able to form a coalition government with the Green Party ending 16 years of Christian Democratic rule. Joschka Fischer became Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor of Germany.
Mr. Fischer's tenure as Foreign Minister was an eventful one which featured Germany's first post WW2 active military mission in the Kosovo War. As a result of the devastating terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, German troops joined the NATO intervention into Afghanistan. Joschka Fischer's tenure was also characterized by his Government's critical stance on the war in Iraq. In March 2003 Mr. Fischer, a strong supporter of EU consolidation, along with the Foreign Ministers of France and the UK led the EU3 negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program - a top priority on the European foreign policy agenda.
Joschka Fischer sits on the Board of the International Crisis Group and on the Executive Board of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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Dialogue on Evolution Biology and Globalization |
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Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris (International Evolution Biologist, Futurist, Author, Business Consultant and Speaker) |
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Centre For Civilisational Dialogue, Chancellory
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Speaker's Bio:
Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, author, business consultant and speaker. She is a citizen of the USA and Greece, living in Spain, fellow of the World Business Academy and member of the World Wisdom Council.
She graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A., from Indiana University with an M.S. and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia with a Ph.D., going on to a post-doctoral NIH fellowship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Sahtouris taught at MIT, the University of Massachusetts and the California Inst. of Integral Studies, was a UN Consultant on indigenous peoples, a science writer for the NOVA-HORIZON TV series, and currently teaches in the Bainbridge Graduate Institute’s MBA program for Sustainable Business, while lecturing on all continents to show the relevance of biological systems in evolution to the reorganization of humanity’s unsustainable institutions and organizations from economies and governments to education and healthcare. Living economies are her special interest, especially those that will enable us to live better on a hotter planet.
Dr. Sahtouris is working to develop a new model for a living universe integrating physics, biology and spirituality. She sees solutions to our social, economic and climate crises in the evolution of Earth's ecosystems, with the oncoming Hot Age as an evolutionary driver to our species maturation as a healthy and cooperative global family. Her books include EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution, A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us and Biology Revisioned, w.Willis Harman.
Her venues include The World Bank, EPA, Boeing, Siemens, Intel, Tokyo Dome Stadium and Tokyo International Forum, Australian, New Zealand & Netherlands government agencies, Sao Paulo's leading business schools, State of the World Forums (NY & San Francisco), the World Parliament of Religions in South Africa, First Rand Bank Group S. Africa, Caux Business Round Table, Switzerland, Round Table of Free Voices, Berlin, as well as many international business and cultural conferences, radio and Television appearances.
The Hokkaido Science Symposium Series is her pet project.
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Why is the Antarctic Cooling |
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Dr. John Turner (Researcher, British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK) |
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National Antartica Research Centre, Deputy Vice Chancellor's Office (Research & Innovation), Chancellory
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Speaker's Bio:
Dr. John Turner is a researcher at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK where he leads a project investigating the climate of the Antarctic. He has a BSc in Meteorology/Physics and a PhD in Antarctic Climate Variability. From 1974 to 1986 he was employed by the UK Meteorological Office where he was involved in the development of numerical weather prediction models and satellite meteorology. Since1986 he has been at BAS working on high latitude precipitation, polar lows, teleconnections between the Antarctic and lower latitudes and weather forecasting in the Antarctic. From 1995 to 2003 he was the President of the International Commission on Polar Meteorology. He is currently the Deputy Secretary General of International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the World Climate Research Programme's Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project and leads the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) programme on Antarctica and the Global Climate System. He is the co-author of King and Turner (1997) Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology and co-editor of Rasmussen and Turner (2003) Polar Lows: Mesoscale Weather Systems in the Polar Regions.
At present, he is also attached to National Antarctic Research Center as a visiting professor.
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Impact of Sanskrit on the Cultures of Southeast Asia |
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Prof. Dr. Shashibala (Expert in Buddhist and Indian art & culture) |
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Department Of Indian Studies, Faculty Of Arts And Social Sciences
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Speaker's Bio:
Prof. Dr. Shashibala is an expert in Buddhist and Indian Art and Culture. A respected authority on the history of Art, she has delivered lectures on the history of Japanese Buddhist Art at a number of renowned international institutions including the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, The British Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom.
Her research projects include Assimilations of Vedic Deities in Japanese Art, Buddhist Art, Indian Culture Abroad, Introduction to Japanese Art, and Manifestations of Buddhas
She has received many grants by international bodies that support her work in many countries. This include sponsorship from Senior research fellowship by the Indian Council for Historical Research, Charles Wallace India Trust (United Kingdom), Shilpakorn University (Bangkok), Nichibunken (Japan), International Center of the Roerichs (Moscow), Brandenburische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademienvorhaben Turfanforschung (Berlin), The American Biographical Institute and International Center Amahinomoto-daisagu (Tokyo).
A widely travelled person, Dr. Shashibala has visited Indonesia, Japan, France, USA, Bhutan, China, Thailand, Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong including Malaysia. In Malaysia, she studied Malay art and culture.
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International Polar Year (IPY) project Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (AGAP) |
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Dr. Detlef Damaske (Research Scientist, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover, Germany) |
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National Antartica Research Centre, Deputy Vice Chancellor's Office (Research & Innovation), Chancellory
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Speaker's Bio:
Dr. Detlef Damaske currently leads the polar research group at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover, Germany. Since more than 25 years he has been actively involved in geophysical research projects in the Antarctic (17 expeditions to Antarctic since 1981) and in the Arctic (6 expeditions to Arctic since 1997). His major field of work are aeromagnetic investigations (i.e studying the magnetic field of rocks of the Earth's crust), contributing to decipher the geological (tectonic) history in both polar regions. Most of these projects are international collaboration. He chairs the IPY lead project which comprises under the acronym "AGAP" former IPY expressions of interest such as GAMBIT, GigaGAP, ICECAP, GAMSEIS. He is the German chief representative for the SCAR Geoscience Standing Scientific Group and a member of the SCAR Expert Group ADMAP (Antarctic Digital MApping Project) and Action group SIGE (Sub-Ice Geological Exploration).
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