Trieste, 27-28 February 2007

Participants:

Members: Chen Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Howard Alper (The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC)); Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, Brazil, Eduardo Krieger; Cuban Academy of Sciences, Ismael Clark Arxer, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), Egypt, Mohsen M. Shoukry, Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Gerhard Gottschalk; Science Council of Japan, Norihisa Doi; Akademi Sains Malaysia, Samsudin Tugiman, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Emil Broesterhuizen, The Royal Society, UK, Lorna Casselton
M.H.A. Hassan, Executive Director, TWAS (Ex Officio), Joanna C.R. Lacey, IAP Secretariat.

Observers: InterAcademy Council (IAC): John Campbell

Guests: US National Academy of Sciences, Mike Clegg; G8 + 5, Jutta Schnitzer-Ungefug

Others: Bernie Jones, Paulo de Goes, Sergio Pastrana, Masato Takeichi, Keiko Murata, Fujio Ohno, Heide Hackmann, Miao Ling Thompson, Wang Zhenyu, Mohd Nasaruddin Abd. Rahman

Apologies for absence: K.Lambeck, Australian Academy of Science; M. Ahmad, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences; M.Alassane Ndiaye, Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal (ASTS); T.Rosswall, ICSU.