Draft Outline For Responsible Innovation Workshop, April / May 2011
Draft Outline For Responsible Innovation Workshop, April / May 2011
Draft Outline For Responsible Innovation Workshop, April / May 2011
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Franco-British workshop on responsible innovation London, 23-24 <strong>May</strong> <strong>2011</strong><br />
Ken DONALDSON<br />
Professor of Respiratory Toxicology<br />
Scientific Director of the ELEGI Colt Laboratory - Queens Medical Research Insititute, University of Edinburgh<br />
Ken Donaldson (KD) is the Scientific Director of the ELEGI Colt Laboratory in the Queens Medical Research<br />
Insititute, University of Edinburgh, where he is Professor of Respiratory Toxicology. Ken is recognized as an<br />
expert in the mechanisms of lung disease caused by inhaled particles and fibres in ambient and workplace air.<br />
In this capacity he has provided expert opinion and consultancy to the US Environmental Protection Agency<br />
(North Carolina), US Health Effects Institute (Massachusetts), World Health Organisation, International Agency<br />
for Research on Cancer (Lyon France), WHO Air Quality and Health (Bonn, Germany), UK Medical Research<br />
Council, UK Health and Safety Executive, etc. Ken has sat on government committees pertaining to toxicology<br />
of air pollutants – Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution (COMEAP) and Expert Panel on Air Quality<br />
Standards (EPAQS) and Advisory committee on Hazardous Substances. He has published over 300 scientific<br />
papers review and book chpaters on lung injury caused by inhaled particles and over 100 on ultrafine particles/<br />
nanoparticles. He currently has a research programme into the adverse effects of nanoparticles on the lungs<br />
and cardiovascular system, high aspect ratio nanoparticles and structure/toxicity relationships for<br />
nanoparticles. He is Founding Editor of the journal ‘Particle and Fibre Toxicology’ and Co-Editor of the<br />
textbook ‘Particle Toxicology’, (2007).<br />
Robert FALKNER<br />
Senior Lecturer in International Relations - London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Senior<br />
Research Fellow - LSE Global Governance<br />
Dr Robert Falkner is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political<br />
Science (LSE) and Senior Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance. He directs the Nanotechnology Policy and<br />
Regulation programme at LSE and in 2008-2009 coordinated an international research project on EU and US<br />
nanomaterials regulation, which resulted in the publication of the Chatham House report Securing the Promise<br />
of Nanotechnologies: Towards Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation (2009). Robert holds Masters degrees in<br />
Politics and Economics from Munich University and a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford<br />
University. In 2006-07, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of Business Power and<br />
Conflict in International Environmental Politics (Palgrave 2008) and editor of The International Politics of<br />
Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law (Palgrave 2007).<br />
Erik FISHER<br />
Assistant professor of Political Science - Arizona State University<br />
Erik Fisher is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He holds a joint<br />
appointment in the School of Politics and Global Studies and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes.<br />
He serves as the Assistant Director for International Activities of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society<br />
(CNS-ASU). Fisher also serves as Principal Investigator of the STIR (Socio-Technical Integration Research)<br />
project, which coordinates over 20 laboratory engagement studies in a dozen nations and as co-leader of a<br />
CNS-ASU research thrust. Fisher’s research interests are in governance of emerging technologies, research<br />
policy, the public value of science, and midstream modulation. He co-edited the first volume of the Yearbook<br />
of Nanotechnology in Society and has published in Science and Public Policy, Scientometrics, Technology in<br />
Society and EMBO Reports. Fisher holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies (University of Colorado, Boulder), an<br />
MA in Classics (University of Colorado, Boulder) and a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics (St. John’s College,<br />
Annapolis).<br />
Andy GIBBS<br />
Head of the Education, Economy, Business and Society Research Team - ESRC<br />
Andy Gibbs has worked for the ESRC since 1981 in a range of roles, primarily in corporate activities. Between<br />
2007 and 2009 he was seconded to RCUK as a workstream lead in the project to establish a new Shared<br />
Services Centre for the Research Councils. Since January 2010, he has been the Head of the Education,<br />
Economy, Business and Society Research Team in the ESRC’s Research Directorate responsible for developing<br />
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