Key Note Speakers

Profiles of Key Note Speakers　

Arnoud De Meyer Title of Speech - Technology Startegy and China's Technology Capacity Building
Professor Arnoud De Meyer is currently Director of Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He was Chairman of the Board of UrbietOrbi, Paris (from 2006); Member of the Board of Dassault Systemes, Paris (from 2005) and Option International, N.V., Belgium (from 1997). Previously, Professor De Meyer has been a member of the Singapore Economic Review Committee (2002) and the Advisory Board of the Waseda Asia-Pacific Institute (1997-2000), and a board member of Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore (2000-2003), Sentosa Island Corporation, Singapore (2001-2002), Ancorabel, N.V., Belgium (1998-2003), the Euro-Asia Centre, Fontainebleau (1988-1992), Video Management, Belgium (1988-2000), and Terbeke International N.V., Netherlands (1986-1989). He has also worked as an instrumentation engineer with Essochem at their Belgium plastics plant and was a research fellow at the Centre for Productivity Study and Research, University of Ghent. His military service involved a detachment to the Belgian Prime Minister's Office, as part of the Programmation of Science Policy.

Before joining Judge Business School, Professor De Meyer was associated for 23 years with INSEAD as a professor and as Dean for the MBA programme, Executive Education and the Euro Asia Centre. He was also the founding Dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore. Professor De Meyer has been a part-time professor at the University of Antwerp and Ghent in Belgium, and was a visiting professor at the University of Kiel, Waseda University in Tokyo, Keio University in Tokyo, and the Birla Institute of Technology in India.

Title of Speech - China: Technological Development and Management in the Context of Economic Reform and Opening
Professor Wang Huijiong is currently Vice President, Academic Committee of Development Research Center of State Council. He graduated from Electrical Engineering Department, Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1947. He has 33 years of electrical engineering working experience on design, operation and management of Electric Utility, the last position in engineering field was deputy chief engineer of Bureau of Electricity, Yunnan Province before 1980. Since 1980, he became senior research professor of Chinese Academy of Social Science through open examination of CASS later, became the Executive Director of Technical Economic Research Center (Currently, the Development Research Center of the State Council) of the State Council, PRC, which is an organization to provide policy consultative service for the government.

He had been short term consultant of UNIDO, (Dec. 1981-Feb. 1982 in UNIDO Headquarter) the local consultant of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and ESCAP. He is also the Member of Standing committee of Natural Resource Society, China's Soft Science Association, and Society of Quantitative Economics etc. He is the member of the Eighth and current Ninth Chinese People Political Consultative Conference.

Title of Speech - Technology and Innovation: New Opportunities For, ad by, Civil Society
Ramu Damodaran is Chief of the Civil Society Service in the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Public Information. In this capacity, Mr. Damodaran oversees the Department's outreach to the public, including non-governmental organizations and educational institutions. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Organization's flagship quarterly, UN Chronicle.

Mr. Damodaran’s prior United Nations responsibilities include that of Senior Officer in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, Senior Focal Point Officer in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Political Affairs Officer in the Department for Special Political Questions, Regional Cooperation, Decolonization and Trusteeship. He was Secretary of the United Nations inter-agency mission that visited Kuwait in 1991 to assess damage to the country’s infrastructure and economy from its occupation by Iraq. As a member of India’s national diplomatic service, Mr. Damodaran served on the Indian delegation to the United Nations and was Chairman of the United Nations Council for Namibia Drafting Committee. He has worked in the Indian Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi and in the Indian Embassy in Moscow.

Mr. Damodaran has extensive work experience in media, including television, radio and print journalism, in India and is a recipient of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union award for best radio feature. Ramu Damodaran is a national of India.

Title of Speech - The Triple Hleix and the Evolution of the Entrepreneurial University
Professor Henry Etzkowitz is the Founder of Association of Triple Helix Study and coined the term of Triple Helix: University – government – industry strategic relation. His research and teaching interests focus on Triple Helix (University-Industry-Government Relations), Entrepreneurial University, Innovation Policy, Women and Minorities in Science, Science-based Regional Development. He is co-founder of the Triple Helix International Conference Series on University-Industry-Government relations [www.triplehelix6.com] and chair of the Scientific committee for Triple Helix VI “The Entrepreneurial University” and for special Triple Helix conferences on the university and development organised in Addis Ababa (May 2006) and Bristol (September 2006).

He is actively involved in the management of EU projects, such as the ongoing study of women’s presence in TIE (Technology transfer, Incubation and Entrepreneurship) professions in four countries (U.K. Germany, Finland and Romania) and the recent ERAWATCH project looking at research investment policies in nine non-EU countries. He has also been involved in EU/US bi-lateral comparative research and in comparative global analyses of gender relations in S&T that have resulted in special journal issues (Minerva, 2002) and a chapter in the 3^rd edition of the New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, (MIT Press). Henry has an extensive publication record, including Triple Helix: University-Industry-Government Innovation in Action; MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science, Public Venture Capital and Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. His next books are The Entrepreneurial University and The Coming Gender Revolution in Science.

Opening Speech to be delivered by Professor Guijun Lin, Deputy President of University of International Business and Economics

Professor Guijun Lin, PhD is currently Editor in Chief of Journal of Chinese Economics and Foreign Trade Studies. He has been visiting scholar in and delivered lectures and seminars and conducted research in Europe and America, including Department of Economics, University of Manchester, UK, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Bocconi University in Italy, Abu Academi University and Turku School of Economics and Business in Fenland and Department of Economics, Columbia University, USA and IMF. He publishes widely in top academic journals, including his recent publication in China Economic Review. His work with Ronald Schramm on China’s flow of funds has drawn the attention of Economist magazine and a special article was written about their findings. He was one of the earliest scholars who applied quantitative analyses into the research of the Chinese foreign trade policy in China. He edited the book The Managerial Process and Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Greater China (JAI Press, 1999) and other book volumes including International Business with China: Opportunities and Challenge, China and Zhuhai in the Globalization of the World Economy and Managing Global Business in the Internet Age. He has been a member of editorial board and editorial advisory board of a number of international journals and invited speakers both in China and in the West. He serves on the Academic committee of Applied Economics of the State Council.