13th STIP Forum Lecture on Science, Technology and Innovation for Development: Role of Science Diplomacy | 31 October at IHC

Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Forum Lecture Series

You are cordially invited to the Thirteenth STIP Forum Lecture

on

Science, Technology and Innovation for Development: Role of Science Diplomacy

by

Dr. Sune Kaur-Pedersen

[Counsellor, Research & Innovation/Deputy Head, Innovation Centre, Embassy of Denmark, India] &

Ms. Tania Friederichs

[R&I Counsellor for India & Bhutan, Delegation of the European Union to India]

Chair: Dr. Bhaskar Balakrishnan, Science Diplomacy Fellow, RIS and Former Ambassador

Date: 31 October 2018 (Wednesday) Time: 7.00 PM

Venue: Casuarina Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road New Delhi (Entry from Gate No.3)

Mr. Sune Kaur-Pedersen is Counsellor, Innovation and Research and Deputy Head of Innovation Centre Denmark at the Embassy of Denmark in New Delhi. He works to strengthen relations between Denmark and India in the areas of innovation, research and higher education, and is posted to India by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Denmark. He has worked in different positions for this ministry during the past 13 years. Before being posted to India, he was secretary for the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy, a high-level advisory council to the government and parliament in Denmark. Mr. Kaur-Pedersen has also worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for more than five years.

Ms. Tania Friederichs is Head of Sector for Research and Innovation at the EU Delegation to India. She started her assignment beginning of September 2016. Before that she was working in Brussels for the European Commission in the Directorate General on Research and Innovation, Department for International Cooperation and was responsible for cooperation with the Western Balkan Countries and Turkey. Ms. Tania has worked for more than 15 years on EU research and innovation policy; she was member of the Private Office of European Commissioner Philippe Busquin for research and innovation from 1999 to 2004. Before that she worked at the EU Delegation in Geneva (Switzerland) following the negotiations on trade in services (GATS) under the World Trade Organisation (WTO). She is a lawyer by training and obtained her Law Degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium in 1980 and a L.L.M. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (US) in 1981. 

ABOUT STIP FORUM: The Science Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Forum has been set up with the objective of promoting debate on various aspects of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. The Forum would go beyond the disciplinary boundaries by taking into account the intersectionality of S&T and I. It aims to will also bridge the gap between the science and society for dissemination of scientific achievements as well as for generalising debate of societal aspirations and promoting responsible research and innovations. The monthly lecture series of public lectures has been launched to sensitize the public discourse on science, technology and innovation policy. Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA), Vigyan Prasar and India Habitat Centre (IHC) are collaborative institutes.

RSVP: Mr. Tish Malhotra/Mr. N. N. Krishnan, Tel.: 011-24682176, 011-24682184 Email: dgoffice@ris.org.in