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Bettany Hughes, photo taken by Mark Passmore Copyright Takeaway Media
Bettany Hughes (opening ceremony)
Bettany Hughes grew up in West London. Her parents were in the theatre: she learnt early the importance and delight of sharing thoughts and ideas with a wider public. Hughes won a scholarship to read Ancient and Modern History at Oxford University and then continued her post-graduate research while traveling through the Balkans and Asia Minor. In recognition of her contribution to research, Bettany has been awarded a Research Fellowship at King's London.
She has written and presented a number of documentaries for television. Bettany is frequently asked to sit on academic and cultural jury panels, most recently the RTS and Grierson Documentary Awards. She is a Research Fellow of King's College, London. Hughes lectures throughout the world. She considers her work in the lecture hall and seminar room amongst the most important, and rewarding she does.
Her book Helen of Troy - the first serious and wide-ranging book ever to have been written about Helen - was published in 2005 to great critical and popular acclaim. She is currently writing a book on Socrates.
Bettany sits on the Innovation Committee of NESTA and she is an advisor to the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation. Read more about Bettany Hughes
Peter van den Besselaar (morning seminar)
Peter van den Besselaar has been head of the Science System Assessment, with overall responsibility for all research, since June 2005. He is also Professor of Organizational Science at VU University Amsterdam.
Between 2004 and 2009, Peter van den Besselaar was Professor of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining the Rathenau Institute, he was head of the social sciences division at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information (NIWI), and director of the Steinmetz Archive from 2002 to 2005. Until 2002, he was an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. Read more about Peter van den Besselaar.
Anette Braun (morning seminar)
Dr. Anette Braun is a macro-economist and political scientist (PhD). Since 1997 she has been a senior policy and technology consultant at VDI Future Technology Center in Düsseldorf, where she coordinates various European Prospective Research Studies (2005-2008 Trend and Issue Analysis of the European Foresight Monitoring Network, 2007 the foresight programme of the Luxemburg Government). She is responsible for the performance of socio-economic analyses of global trends, drivers, emerging issues (roadmaps on health, e-health, biotech, nano, converging technologies), their exploitation, combination, synthesis and translation into discrete S&T policy priorities.
Braun acted as Member of the High Level Expert Group for DG RTD in 2005 on 'Foresighting the New Technology Wave' and has published various articles and papers on RTD and foresight. Dowload full CV (pdf).
Paul Iske (morning seminar)
“In the knowledge/creative economy the generation, combination, dissemination and application of knowledge and ideas are key to achieve sustainable success. In recent years, it has become clear that there is a need for better understanding of the corresponding strategic aspects of innovation management and business venturing, in particular those organizational issues related to open and radical innovation and business venturing.
The main areas of interest of the Chair Open Innovation and Business Venturing include: New business models, Innovation Management, Intellectual Capital Management, Complexity and Alliance Management. The Chair studies new business models for innovation and business venturing based on the Knowledge Dialogue. The corresponding processes and enabling conditions are researched, including network management, the impact of the physical environment, change management, cultural aspects, business modeling, intellectual capital management and valorization. This is done both theoretically as well as in the practice. Read more about Paul Iske.
Evelyne de Leeuw (morning seminar)
Prof. Evelyne de Leeuw is Chair in Community Health Systems and Policy for the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences at Deakin University. She also coordinates the ‘Doctors, Peoples, Cultures and Institutions’ theme, which runs across the curriculum of the Medical School.
De Leeuw studied health sciences at Maastricht University. After a Masters in Health Policy and Administration there (1985) she acquired an MPH at the University of California at Berkeley in comparative health systems research (1986) and a PhD on the feasibility of true health policy—public and private policies for health, not restricting itself to the health care sector or public health—in Maastricht (1989).
De Leeuw has held serveral international academic positions since. Furthermore she is involved in the World Health Organization health promotion and active in the international Healthy Cities movement. Download full CV (pdf).
UM Green Office, Felix Spira and Ardjan Vermue (morning seminar)
The UM Green Office is a body of Maastricht University that is managed by a team of employees and students, which, supervised by senior staff, addresses green interests of UM employees, UM students and visitors with the goal of higher sustainability standards within the University and its community. This is achieved by bringing together the strategic efforts of Maastricht University with a vibrant network of innovators and facilitators active in the field of sustainability. Thereby, it operates as a liaison office as well as an incubator for open innovation, creating a dynamic and sustainable process within and around the university. The synergies that the different institutions and initiatives in Maastricht can create are tremendous if their capacity and expertise is pooled, made available to all stakeholders and built upon. Read more about the UM Green Office
