Online participation: http://webcast.unesco.org/events/2022-07-IYBSSD/.
Welcome speeches
Moderator: Ms Shamila Nair-Bedouelle, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
Mr Antonio Guterres, Secretary General, United Nations (video)
Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director General, UNESCO
H.E Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento, President of the Republic of Honduras (tbc)
H.E. Csaba Kőrösi, President-elect, 77th United Nations General Assembly
Dr Michel Spiro, Chair, Steering Committee of IYBSSD2022; President, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
Dr Merieme Chadid, Chair, Scientific Board of the UNESCO International Basic Sciences Program
The role of basic sciences in decision making
Ministers of science and high-level scientists discuss the importance of basic sciences in policy decision making, especially regarding the sustainable development challenges that we face.
Moderator: Dr Rolf-Dieter Heuer, President, SESAME council; Professor Emeritus, University of Hamburg, Germany; former Director General, CERN
H.E. Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment, Republic of Cuba (online)
H.E. Luther Castillo Harry, Secretary of Science, Technology, and Scientific Innovation, Republic of Honduras
H.E. Wang Zhigang, Minister and Secretary of Ministry of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China (online)
H.E. Dr Bonginkosi Emmanuel Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Science & Innovation, Republic of South Africa
H.E. Huynh Thanh Dat, Minister of Science and Technology, Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Dr Low Teck Seng, Chief Executive Officer, National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Republic of Singapore (online)
Ms Monilola Udoh, Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Federal Republic Nigeria
Dr Serge Haroche, Honorary Professor, Collège de France, France, Physics Nobel Laureate (2012)
Dr Giorgio Parisi, Emeritus Professor, Rome University La Sapienza, Italy, Physics Nobel Laureate (2021)
Full programme