Scenery from the G8 University Summit

2. Parallel Session A: June 30, 13:00 – 17:30

Theme:
New Scientific Knowledge and International Network to Support Global Sustainability

Sub-themes:

• New Scientific Knowledge on Global Sustainability
• Network of Networks (NNs)

Led by its chair (President Hiroshi Saeki of Hokkaido University) and vice-chair (President and Vice-Chancellor Samarasekera of University of Alberta), Parallel Session A included presentations by the representatives detailed below, comments about the presentations and questions & answers on the theme of ‘New Scientific Knowledge and International Network to Support Global Sustainability’.

The session was divided into first and second halves, and featured presentations by the ten representatives listed below.

President Takehiko Sugiyama, Hitotsubashi University	Vice-Rector Guido Chelazzi, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Prof. Peter Guthrie, Director, Center of Engineering for Sustainable Development, the University of Cambridge	Mr. Donald Filer, Director, Office of International Affairs, Yale University	Executive Vice-President and Provost Jianhua Lin, Peking University

President Jun-ichi Nishizawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University	Deputy Director Kripa Shanker, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

President Jang-Moo Lee, Seoul National University	Vice-Chancellor and Principal Ihron L. Rensburg, University of Johannesburg	Rector Burkhard Rauhut, RWTH Aachen University

The presentations were followed by comments from the three representatives listed below.

President Akihisa Inoue, Tohoku University	President Kenichi Iga, Tokyo Institute of Technology	President Kiyofumi Kawaguchi, Ritsumeikan University