Welcome addresses [Global Grand Challenges Summit]

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Tuesday, 12 March 2013
00:12 - 00:12
Duration: 35 mins
Publication date: 14 Mar 2013
Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
Part of event Global Grand Challenges Summit

About the session

The Global Grand Challenges Summit is a major new initiative by the national academies of engineering in the UK, the USA and China. The Summit sees leading international engineering thinkers and innovators sharing ideas with the next generation of engineers and policy-makers on how to solve the world's most pressing challenges. The prosperity of future generations relies on unprecedented levels of inter-disciplinary and international cooperation in pursuit of solutions to global challenges. Whether the task is providing clean water for a soaring global population or developing the resilience of our infrastructure to climate change, solutions demand more than isolated efforts. Instead, it is time to explore what could be accomplished with a globally-integrated systems approach.

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Speakers

Dame Ann Dowling

University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Department Head
Sir John Parker

Royal Academy of Engineering, President

Sir John Parker is the President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has chaired five FTSE100 companies, including National Grid, from which he stepped down in December 2011, and is currently Chairman of the mining conglomerate Anglo American. He is Vice Chairman of DP World (Dubai) and a Non-Executive Director of Carnival Corporation and EADS (Airbus). Elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering as one of its youngest Fellows in 1983, Sir John is also an Elder Brother of Trinity House, a Visiting Fellow of University of Oxford, a member of the General Committee of Lloyds Register of Shipping, Vice President of The Royal Navy and Marines Charity and a governor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He is a recipient of honorary doctorates from a number of universities in the UK and Ireland. He has been President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, an Honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Fuellers and the Tallow Chandlers Livery Company and President of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers.He led National Grid’s Young Offenders into Work programme. He has served the government on the Prime Minister’s Business Council for Britain, the Defence Academy Advisory Board, the Asia Task Force and was Deputy Chairman of the White Ensign Association.
Prof. C. D. Mote

US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Officer and President-Nominee

Dan Mote received the Founders Award of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Medal in recognition of his work providing results of great practical importance in the vibration and stability of rotating and translating flexible structures, in the biomechanics of snow skiing injury and also for academic leadership. He serves on the National Research Council Governing Board, the National Academy of Engineering Council as an officer and co-chairs the Academies Government-UniversityIndustry Research Roundtable. He served as president of the University of Maryland for 12 years and on the University of California, Berkeley faculty for 31 years. He was awarded the Humboldt Prize by the Federal Republic of Germany; Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Honorary Fellowship of ASME; the University of California, Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award and its Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award.
Dr. Jian Song

Chinese Academy of Engineering, Governing Board, Honorary Chairman

Dr Jian Song is Honorary Chairman of the Governing Board of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Chairman of the All-China Environment Federation. He has made tremendous achievements in the fields of control theory, guided missile and aerospace technology, and population control theory. He made significant contributions to the development of Samp;T and environmental protection in China and he proposed Nation Building through Technology and Education, which is now one of three key national development strategies. Song’s previous positions include the Vice-Minister and Chief Engineer-Scientist of the Ministry of Astronautics, Chairman of the State Science and Technology Commission, President of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and First Vice-Chairman of Committee on Academic Degrees of China’s State Council. His academic titles include Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Honorary Professor of the Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering; Foreign Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences; and Member of the International Astronautic Academy. Honors and awards conferred to Song including: the highest National Award for Scientific and Technological Progress for his achievements in population control study; the Albert Einstein Award; China's National Natural Science Prize; and the HLHL Award.
Jim Al--Khalili

University of Surrey, professor of physics, author and broadcaster

Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of physics, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey where he currently teaches and also holds a chair in public engagement in science. He received his PhD in nuclear physics in 1989 and remains active in research in theoretical physics. He is active as a science communicator and has written a number of popular science and history of science books, between them translated into over twenty languages. His latest is Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics. Jim is a regular presenter of TV science documentaries, including the Bafta nominated Chemistry: A Volatile History and, most recently, Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity and Order and Disorder, both for BBC4. He also presents the weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific. He provides expert advice for bodies such as the Royal Society, the British Council and the Department for Education. He is also active in public life and is a strong advocate for rationalism and secularism and has recently taken over as president of the British Humanist Association. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal and the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.

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