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Published 17 July 2014

Panel Discussion: Science for the Benefit of Mankind

Now available at the Lindau Mediatheque: the complete Video of this year’s Closing Panel Discussion “Science for the Benefit of Mankind”.

On Friday, 4 July, on the last day of the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, a highly anticipated panel discussion took place. Upon invitation of Countess Bettina several high caliber panelists came together to talk about the role of science in the improvement of global health and living conditions. You can now watch the video over at the Lindau Mediatheque or further below in this blog post.

Photo: C. Flemming/LNLM
Photo: C. Flemming/LNLM

The participants from left to right:

Georg Schütte, State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Brian Schmidt, Nobel Laureate, 2011, Physics

Geoffrey Carr (Moderator), Science Editor, The Economist

Ghada Bassioni, Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt), Global Young Academy, 2012 Lindau Alumna

Charles Mgone, Executive Director, European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP)

Francoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Laureate, 2008, Medicine

 

To watch the Panel discussion, just click on the play button :