Presentation by Sir David King, Chief Scientific Advisor for the United Kingdom July 11, 2007

The Africa Region of the World Bank, HDNED, and the British Embassy Presents
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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