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HEARING ON GLOBAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: FOREIGN PERSPECTIVES, MULTICULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Tuesday, November 16, 1999
9:00a - 5:30p
National Science Foundation, Room 1235, Arlington, Virginia

Agenda
Time
 Presentation Speaker(s)
9:00a Welcome and Introductions Diana Natalicio, Chair, NSB Task Force on International Issues in Science and Engineering
     
9:10a Third Annual Competitiveness Survey: How the US measures up

Stanley Jaskolski, NSB Moderator

Charles Evans, Council on Competitiveness

     
9:30a U.S. Organizations involved in International S&E Cooperation Craig Dorman, Office of Naval Research (teleconference from London)
Richard Getzinger, American Association for the Advancement of Science
     
10:15a Break  
     
10:30a Partnership Programs

Mary K. Gaillard, NSB Moderator

Robert Eisenstein, NSF Mathematics and Physical Sciences Directorate; US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF); OECD Global Science Forum
Gerson Sher, Civilian R&D Foundation (for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union)
John Hardie, International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Erick Chiang, NSF Office of Polar Programs; U.S. Antarctic Program

     
12:30p Lunch  
     
1:00p Panel: Foreign Models and Perspectives of International Science and Engineering Cooperation

Pamela Ferguson, NSB Moderator

Dominique Martin-Rovet, Attache for Science and Technology, Embassy of France
Takao Kuramochi, Science Counselor, Embassy of Japan
Jorge Litvak, International University Exchange, Chile

     
2:30p Introduction to Keynote Address Diana Natalicio
  Keynote Address Mary Good, Venture Capital Investors, Inc.
     
3:15p Break  
     
3:30p Panel: Development Assistance and International Organizations

Luis Sequeira, NSB Moderator

Ray Kirkland, Agency for International Development
Michael Crawford, World Bank
Laurence Wolff, Inter-American Development Bank

     
5:30p Adjourn  
     

NSB/ISE 99-19

 

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