M.G.K Menon (
chair) has had a distinguished career as
a scientist and policy maker, and has held a number of prominent
appointments including Secretary, Department of Science and Technology,
Secretary, Department of Electronics both in the Government of India;
Member, Planning Commission (1982-89); and Scientific Adviser to
the Prime Minister. He served as President of ICSU from 1988-1993.
He is the recipient of prestigious awards such as Padma Bhushan
and Padma Vibhushan in recognition of his distinguished service.
He has also been honored with the Abdus Salaam award. He has been
a member of Parliament, in the Rajya Sabha. He has a PhD from
Bristol
and was educated at
Agra and
Bombay.
He is the President of Leadership for the Environment and Development
in
India.
Carlos Correa is Director of the Master Program on Science
and Technology Policy and Management at the University
of Buenos Aires. He serves as a consultant in the fields of science
and technology and intellectual property to many regional and
international organizations, including UNCTAD, UNIDO, WHO, FAO,
and the Inter-American Development Bank. He served as Undersecretary
of State for Informatics and Development in the Argentine national
government from 1984 to 1989, and as Director of the U.N. Development
Programme's Regional Programme on Informatics and Microelectronics
for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1990-1995. He is a member
of the Scientific Resource Group on Globalization of the World
Health Organization and of the International Economics Law Association,
and served as a member of the United Kingdom's
International Commission on Intellectual Property Rights.
Dialo Diop is a lecturer in microbiology at the Université
Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar,
Senegal. He received
his MD from CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris.
After working as a general practitioner in Senegal,
he returned to Paris to receive additional
training in molecular virology. From 2000 to 2001, he served as
cabinet director for the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific
Research. He is currently in a PhD program in medical molecular
genetics at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.
Dr. Diop is secretary general of CODATA Senegal.
Farouk El-Baz is Research Professor and Director of the Center
for Remote Sensing at Boston
University. He also is an Adjunct Professor of Geology at the
Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo,
Egypt. He received a
BSc in chemistry and geology from Ain Shams University, a MS degree
in geology from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, and
his PhD in geology from the University of Missouri. He was elected
Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1985, and became
a member of its Council in 1997. He represents the Academy at
the Non-Governmental Unit of the Economic and Social Council of
the United Nations. Dr. El-Baz is a member of the National Academy
of Engineering. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the new
Alexandria Library, the Arab Science and Technology Foundation,
the Egyptian Center for
Economic Studies, the Egyptian-American Affairs Council, the Moroccan-American
Council, the World Affairs Council of Boston, as well as the editorial
boards of several international professional journals. He is a
member of many national and international professional societies
and a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Astronomical
Society, and the Explorers Club. Dr. El-Baz has won numerous honors
and awards, including NASA's Apollo Achievement Award, Exceptional
Scientific Achievement Medal, and Special Recognition Award; the
University of Missouri Alumni Achievement Award for Extraordinary
Scientific Accomplishments; the Certificate of Merit of the World
Aerospace Education Organization; the Golden Door Award of the
International Institute of Boston; and the Award for Public understanding
of Science and Technology of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Dominque Foray is
currently Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), a Professor at the University of
Paris-Dauphine, and a part-time member of the International Institute
for Applied System Analysis (IIASA-Laxenburg bei Vienna). He received
his PhD in 1984 and his "habilitation" in 1992 from
the Université Lumière of Lyon. In 1985, he joined
the CNRS as Research Fellow. In 1990 he joined the Ecole Centrale
Paris as professor of Economics and returned to CNRS in 1994.
From 1993 to 1995, he was a permanent consultant (part time) at
the OECD (Division for Science, Technology and Industry) where
he contributed to the Programme on "National Systems of Innovation."
He received the distinction of outstanding research 1993 from
CNRS. He was elected as a Research Fellow at the ICER foundation
(Italy) for the academic year in 1999 and was at the Institute
for Advanced Study Berlin for the academic year 2000. His research
interests include the economics of science and technology, the
economics of production and distribution of knowledge, the exploration
of the tension between diversity and standardization in the past
and in the present, and the analysis of path-dependent processes
of economic change.
Alexei Gvishiani is Director of the Centre of Geophysical
Data Studies and Telematics Applications in the Russian
Academy of Sciences and Professor of mathematics at Moscow State
Lomonosov University. Dr. Gvishiani holds a PhD in mathematics
from Moscow State Lomonosov University and
Doctor of Sciences from Moscow Schmidt Institute of Physics of
the Earth. Since 1994, he has been Vice-President of the European-Mediterranean
Seismological Centre. His areas of scientific interest include
artificial intelligence and applied mathematics in applications
related to geophysical data acquisition, processing, and analysis,
as well as the Internet and telematics applications for science,
education, and the environment. Professor Gvishiani was recently
elected as Vice President of the international CODATA.
Elizabeth Longworth, Principal of Longworth Associates, is
a specialist adviser on dispute resolution, information issues,
and digital technologies. She is also a specialist on the legal
and ethical implications of information technology, the Internet,
electronic commerce, electronic banking, international trade finance,
and telecommunications. Following her admission to the Bar as
a barrister and solicitor, and developing a practice in litigation,
Ms. Longworth spent three years in Canada
working in information law. Before setting up her own firm in
1991, she practiced in a large corporate law firm in both Wellington
and Auckland (New Zealand)
in her specialty fields. Ms. Longworth is the Independent Chair
of the New Zealand telecommunication
industry's self-regulatory body on number administration. She
was the New Zealand nominee
to the UNESCO Meetings in Seoul and Monte
Carlo in 1998, and is a member of the Sub-Commission
on Communication of the New Zealand National Commission of UNESCO.
She continues to work for UNESCO (Paris) on the "Digital
Divide." Ms. Longworth is the author of a report on Cyberspace
Law, published in New Zealand
in 1998 and currently in press by UNESCO (Paris), and of the leading
text on New Zealand's
privacy laws. Ms. Longworth graduated with a Bachelor of Laws
from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a Master
of Laws from Osgoode Hall, York University,
Canada.
Lulama Makhubela is Manager of Research Information for the
South African National Research Foundation (NRF). Prior to joining
the NRF in 2001, she was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Library and Information Science at the University of the Western
Cape. She earned her Masters degree in librarianship
at the College of Librarianship, Wales,
and her PhD in library and information Science from the University
of the Western Cape.
She is a member of the South African CODATA Committee.
Hu Qiheng* is Chair of the Internet Society of China (ISC)
and Vice President of China
Association for Science and Technology. She also serves as a member
of Chinese Academy of Engineering and of the Advisory Committee
for state informatization. Prior to joining ISC, she served as
Deputy General and General Secretary, then Vice President of Chinese
Academy of Science. She has worked in the Institute of Automation,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a researcher assistant, associate
research professor, and research professor, then as Director of
the Institute for 26 years. Since the 1990s, Madame Hu Qiheng
has been in charge of the development and research of a World
Bank-Loan Project for the National Computing Facility in Zhong
Guan Cun Area. Madame Hu Qiheng received her associate doctor's
degree from Department of Automation of the Moscow Institute of
Chemical Machinery. She was a visiting research professor of Case
Western Reserve University from
1980 to 1982.
Erik Sandewall received his PhD from Uppsala University (Sweden),
after having spent one year of the doctoral studies at the Stanford
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory. He stayed in Uppsala
until 1974, spent the following academic year as visiting associate
professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI Laboratory,
and then obtained his current position as Professor of Computer
Science and Vice Rector at Linköping University, which he
still holds. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a fellow
of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Dr. Sandewall was recently appointed as Chair of the ICSU Press.
Mary Waltham is
a publishing consultant. She was most recently President and Publisher
for Nature and the Nature family of journals in the United States,
and formerly Managing Director and Publisher of The Lancet in
the United Kingdom. She founded her own consulting company two
years ago. Its purpose is to help international scientific, technical
and medical publishers to confront the rapid change that the networked
economy poses to their traditional business models, and to develop
the new opportunities to build publications that deliver outstanding
scientific and economic value. Ms. Waltham has worked at a senior
level in science and medical publishing companies across a range
of media, which include textbooks, magazines, newsletters, journals
and open learning materials. She served on the U.S. National Research
Council's (NRC) Committee on Community Standards for Sharing Publication-Related
Data and Materials, and currently serves on its Steering Committee
for the Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical
Journal Publishing and its Implications, which will be held on
19-20 May in Washington, DC.
Ferris Webster is Professor of Oceanography in the College
of Marine Studies of the University of Delaware. He received his
BSc and MSc degrees in Physics at the University of Alberta, and
his PhD in Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Beginning at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he held
a number of scientific positions, becoming Senior Scientist in
1970, Chairman of the Physical Oceanography Department in 1971,
and Associate Director for Research in 1973. During this period,
he spent a sabbatical year at the National Institute of Oceanography
in England. Between 1978
and 1982, Dr. Webster served as Assistant Administrator for Research
and Development of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA). In 1982, he became a Senior Fellow with the National Research
Council. He joined the University of Delaware in 1983, where he
serves as Director of the Oceanography Program. His research interests
include the role of the ocean in climate change, ocean variability,
time-series analysis, and oceanographic data management and processing.
Since 1994 he has served as chairman of the Panel on World Data
Centers of the International Council for Science (ICSU). He is
also chair of the ICSU-CODATA ad hoc Working Group on Access to
Data and Information, and served as chair of the U.S. NRC's
Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data.