The World Chemistry Leadership Meeting
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tuesday 2 August 2011
an opportunity for leaders from chemistry to set new priorities for the
science, to address the challenges of a sustainable world, and to approach
Rio+20 and beyond
Accelerating the Contributions of Chemistry
to Sustainable Development
Morning Plenary Session
(9 am to 1 pm)
Nicole Moreau, IUPAC President
Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO, Assistant DirectorGeneral for Natural Sciences
Berhanu Abegaz, African Academy of Sciences,
Executive Director
Afternoon Breakout Discussion Groups
David Piper, UNEP Chemicals Branch, Deputy
Branch Head
Giorgio Squinzi, Mapei snc, CEO, & President Cefic
Mario Molina, 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Manuel Limonta, ICSU, Director of the Regional
Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Future of Sustainable Chemistry, A Virtual Conference
Preview hosted by The Dow Chemical Company
(2 to 4 pm)
Keynote Speaker: Simon Campbell, FRS,
former Senior Vice President of Pfizer
Energy Storage
Chair: Michael Droescher, IUPAC Committee on
Chemistry and Industry
Keynote Speaker: Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr,
Director
Water
Chair: Mark Cesa, IUPAC Organic and
Biomolecular Chemistry Division and
Committee on Chemistry and Industry
Keynote Speaker: Alejandra Palermo, RSC Pan
African Chemistry Network
Agriculture and Food Production
Chair: John Unsworth, IUPAC Chemistry and the
Environment Division
Keynote Speaker: David Evans, Syngenta, Former
Research Director
Green Chemistry
Chair: Bernard West, IUPAC Committee on
Chemistry and Industry
Keynote Speaker: Philip Jessop, Queen’s University,
Kingston, ON, and GreenCentre Canada,
Technical Director
Health
Chair: Doug Templeton, IUPAC Chemistry and
Human Health Division
Afternoon Wrap-Up Session
WCLM Reception and Networking
(4 to 6 pm)
(6 pm)
Tatsumi Kazuyuki, IUPAC Vice President
Feedback from breakout discussions
Reflections from plenary speakers and
discussion
United Nations
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
International Union of
Pure and Applied
Chemistry
IYC2011 Global Partner