Professor Sir King David For a Presentation Entitled
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND WEALTH CREATION:
SKILLS AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
10:30am
Preston Auditorium
1818 H Street
Washington, DC 20433
RSVPs with names and organisations need to go to Ms. Oni Lusk-Stover at
oluskstover@worldbank.org.
Sir David King is Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the
Office of Science and Innovation. Sir David has written extensively and
passionately about the central role that science, technology and innovation
capacity building must play in Africa?s poverty reduction and economic
development strategies. He argues that the goals outlined in both the Blair
Commission for Africa and the Gleneagles Summit Declaration can be achieved only
if Africa embarks on a vigorous science and technology capacity building effort.
Anything less will be a ?recipe for disappointment.?
SIR DAVID KING, FRS
Sir David was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to HM Government and Head
of the Office of Science and Technology on 1 October 2000. The Office of Science
and Technology became The Office of Science and Innovation following a merger
with DTI's Innovation Group on 3 April 2006. Prior to this appointment, he was
head of the Department of Chemistry and Master of Downing College, University of
Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Queens' College, University of Cambridge. He
continues as Director of Research, at the University of Cambridge.
He advises the Prime Minister directly on scientific issues and in 2001 chaired
the Foot and Mouth Disease Science Panel and in 2003 the GM Science Review
Panel. He chairs a number of other committees including: the; Chief Scientific
Adviser's Committee (CSAC); the Global Science and Innovation Forum (GSIF); and
co-chairs the Energy Research Partnership (ERP) and the Council for Science and
Technology. He was heavily involved in producing the UK's ten-year Science and
Innovation Framework, 2004-2014. He runs the Government's Foresight Programme.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991, Foreign Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and a Knight Bachelor in 2003. He
was made an Honorary Life Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, 2006.
Previous academic appointments include: Teaching Assistant, University of
Witwatersrand from 1961 to 1962; Shell Postgraduate Scholar, Imperial College,
London from 1963- 1966; Lecturer in Chemical Physics, University of East Anglia
from 1966 - 1974; Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Liverpool from
1974 - 1988; and 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry from 1988-2005, University
of Cambridge, from 1988 - present. He has undertaken a number of consultancies
for both national and international organisations.
Between 1967 and 2006 Sir David has given over 250 invited lectures at
international conferences, symposia, workshops and summer schools on his
research. He has published over 450 papers in scientific journals, including
twenty in the past year. As Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government, he has
given over 300 lectures related to science in government. These include venues
throughout the EU, Australia, USA, Japan, China, Russia, Korea, South Africa,
India, Brazil, Canada and Singapore. In 2002 he delivered the Ninth Zuckerman
Lecture, on "The Science of Climate Change: Adapt, Mitigate or Ignore?", at The
Royal Society. He delivered subsequently the Greenpeace Business Lecture, 2004
and the Magna Carta Lecture to the Australian Parliament, 2005. He published
"The Scientific Impact of Nations" in Nature 430, 311 (2004) and "Climate
Change: the science and the policy" in Journal of Applied Ecology 42, 779-783
(2005). Contributed to a chapter on 'Climate-change Policy' Edited by Dieter
Helm and published by Oxford University Press (2005).
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