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Appendix B: BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS
Appendix B: BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS
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to support molecularly based personalized medicine. She serves as the cochair of the NCI-FDA Interagency Task Force; the co-chair of the Cancer Steering Committee of the FNIH Biomarker Consortium; and oversees the NCI's pilot international cancer research programs in Latin America and China.
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His book, with Distinguished Prof. Charles Weiss of Georgetown, entitled Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, was published by MIT Press in April 2009, and is summarized on the MIT Press Web site.
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Anna Borg began her Foreign Service career in 1978 after working at The World Bank. Earlier assignments have included: policy advisor to the Deputy Secretary of State (1993)
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DAN BREZNITZ Professor Dan (Danny) Breznitz (Georgia Institute of Technology, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs & The School of Public Policy, Ph.D.
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Breznitz is one of five young North American scholars to be selected as a 2008 Industry Study Fellow of the Sloan Foundation. Breznitz has also been an advisor on Science Technology and Innovation Policies for multinational corporations, international organizations such as the World Bank and WIPO, and local and national governments in the United States, Asia, and Europe.
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Prior to his current role, he was vice president of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California and senior location executive for Silicon Valley, overseeing more than 400 scientists and engineers doing exploratory and applied research in various hardware, software and services areas including: nanotechnology, materials science for storage systems, data management, web technologies, workplaces practices and user interfaces. Before his appointment to the Almaden Lab in 2004, Dr.
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EUGENE HUANG Eugene J Huang currently serves in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the senior advisor to the chief technology officer.
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LOU JING Lou Jing is currently serving as deputy director of the Department of Science and Technology, of the Ministry of Education From 1998 to 2008, Ms. Lou worked in education informatization and management work, including education system infrastructure construction, resource system, systems, middleware, and user service systems; research and promotion of education informatization standardized construction work; and research of educational electronic administration construction and development; with his research receiving the National Ministry-Level Science and Technology Achievement First Class Award.
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; and in May of 2008, the John Fritz Medal, widely considered the highest award in the engineering profession. Previous recipients of the Fritz Medal include Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Orville Wright.
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GINGER LEW Ms. Lew is senior advisor to the White House National Economic Council and the SBA Administrator.
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Highlights of the construction activity include the stunning Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center; the Comcast Center, a state of the art sports complex; a high-tech research greenhouse; and new classrooms for chemistry, computer science, business and engineering. President Mote also led the development of a new Facilities Master Plan for development in the next 20 years, which is noted for its emphasis on environmental stewardship.
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He has testified on major educational issues before Congress, representing the University and higher education associations on the problem of visa barriers for international students and scholars and on deemed export control issues. He has been asked to serve on a high-level National Academies Committee appointed at the request of the Senate Energy Subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to identify challenges to United States leadership in key areas of science and technology and to be a member of the Leadership Council of the National Innovation Initiative, an activity of the Council on Competitiveness.
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Stakeholder Group and the U.S.-China Expert CCS Steering Committee. She is an author of over 50 papers, reports and patents, past vice president of the Near Surface Geophysics Section of the Society of Exploration Geophysicsts, past Associate Editor for Geophysics, and a Fellow of both the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the Center of Integrated Water Research at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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REN WEIMIN Ren Weimin is currently serving as deputy director of the Academy of Macroeconomic Research at the National Development and Reform Commission.
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He is also directing a major study on best practice in regional innovation programs, entitled Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State & Regional Innovation Initiatives. Today's meeting on "Building the 21st Century: U.S.-China Cooperation on Science, Technology, and Innovation," forms part of a complementary, global analysis entitled Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice in National Technology Programs.
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Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy; the Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics; the Board of National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) ; the United States Council for International Business; the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Society of International Law.
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He has participated in the drafting and implementation stages of China's most important software industry policies, such as encouraging software and integrated circuit industry development, promoting the Chinese software industry's recent fast development, promoting Chinese software intellectual property right protection work, and promoting, organizing, and implementing the pre-installation of official operating systems in computers sold in China before leaving the factory.
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