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Innovation Policy refers to policies and public strategies, regulations, and initiatives aimed at promoting the development, diffusion, and application of new ideas, technologies, products, and services. It seeks to enhance capacity for innovation to drive economic growth, competitiveness, and social well-being. Innovation policy encompasses support for research and development (R&D), entrepreneurship and education, digital infrastructure, social innovation and collaboration between industry, academia, and government.
Science for Policy refers to the use of scientific knowledge, evidence, and expertise to inform and support decision-making in public policy. It involves translating complex scientific research into accessible insights that can guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies across various sectors, including (but not limited to) health, environment, technology, security, education, justice. Science for policy emphasizes evidence-based policymaking, where decisions are grounded in reliable data and research and knowledge rather than opinion or ideology.
Policy for Science refers to the set of governmental policies or institutional strategies, decisions, and frameworks that shape the funding, priorities, infrastructure, and governance of scientific research and development. It involves creating conditions that support scientific innovation, including investments in research institutions, training of scientists and development of science infrastructure, research integrity, EDIA, and international collaboration, ultimately aiming to strengthen the scientific enterprise to advance knowledge,economic development, and societal well-being.
Science for Policy refers to the use of scientific knowledge, evidence, and expertise to inform and support decision-making in public policy. It involves translating complex scientific research into accessible insights that can guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies across various sectors, including (but not limited to) health, environment, technology, security, education, justice. Science for policy emphasizes evidence-based policymaking, where decisions are grounded in reliable data and research and knowledge rather than opinion or ideology.
Science & Society refers to areas that strengthen public understanding and engagement with science, including the relationship between science and society. This includes but is not limited to science communication, education, journalism, public engagement, and citizen science and more.
Director at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea), holding a doctorate in Economics from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with postdoctoral research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was also a visiting researcher at Harvard University in 2017. In the public sector, she held roles related to public policies for productivity and science and technology: she was an economic advisor to the Minister of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade (2008) and head of the Monitoring and Evaluation Office at the Ministry of Science and Technology (2010-2012). She also served as Director (2012-2017) and Deputy Director (2009-2010) at Ipea. She is the author of several articles and books and received the BNDES Economics Award for her master’s dissertation on the trade performance of foreign companies in Brazil. In 2014, the book she organized at Ipea on productivity in Brazil was a finalist for the Jabuti Award in economics.
Professor Alejandro Adem was appointed President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in October 2019.
As a highly accomplished researcher in the field of mathematics and a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, Professor Adem has significant leadership experience in the Canadian research and innovation ecosystem. Before joining NSERC, he was CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs (2015–19) where he oversaw a significant expansion of its domestic and
international internship programs, as well as launching the Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowships, an Indigenous engagement initiative and an innovative entrepreneurship program.
Prior to that, he served as Director (2008–2015) of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences , a research and training consortium supporting the mathematical sciences across Western Canada. From 1989 to 2004 he was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin- Madison (USA).
Professor Adem earned a BS at the National University of Mexico and a PhD at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society and a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 70 articles as well as two books; delivered close to 400 invited research lectures around the world; and held postdoctoral or visiting positions at Stanford University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the ETH- Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, the University of Paris and Princeton University. Other distinctions include a senior Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, the Jeffery-Williams Research Prize (awarded by the Canadian Mathematical Society), the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (USA) and an Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Professor Adem is currently the Chair of the Canada Research Coordinating Committee and Vice-Chair of the Governing Board of the Global Research Council. Over his career he has served on a variety of scientific, editorial and governance boards for the worldwide mathematical sciences community, and is a member of the International Mathematical Union’s Committee for Women in Mathematics.
Alejandro Adem is a Canadian citizen who was born and raised in Mexico City, and is a proud member of the Latin American community in Canada. He is married and has two grown children.
The Ambassador of Brazil to Mozambique, a career diplomat, completed his undergraduate studies at the Rio Branco Institute (IRBr – Brazilian Diplomatic Academy) in December 1991, immediately joining the diplomatic service thereafter. Previously, in 1987, he graduated in law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
He served as Minister-Counselor at the Brazilian Embassy in Warsaw in 2021 and 2022, and as Deputy Consul General in Toronto between 2016 and 2021. He was a former Advisor to the Minister of State for Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI) in 2015 and 2016. He headed the Division of Science and Technology (DCTEC) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) from 2009 to 2015. He previously served at the Brazilian Embassies in Montevideo (2006-2009), Lima (2003-2006), and London (1996-2000). In Brazil, he also worked as an advisor to the head of the Cultural Department of Itamaraty (1992-1996) and as an academic coordinator at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) from 2000 to 2003.
He is a professor, holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of São Paulo – USP, 2001). He earned merit-based approval in the Advanced Studies Course at IRBr (2009). He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science (University of Brasília – UnB, 1995) and in Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method from the London School of Economics (LSE – London, 1999). He is the author of books such as “Justice as Fairness” (Lumen Juris, 2004) and “Diplomacy, Development, and National Innovation Systems – A Comparative Study of Brazil, China, and the United Kingdom” (2011), among others, in which he acted as a co-author or contributor.
He was a former professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS – 2001-2003), the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro (FGV-RJ, 2001-2002), and the Rio Branco Institute in Brasília (IRBr, 1992-1995 and 2010-2015), among other higher education institutions. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the “Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence” (AI2) in São Paulo. He is the author of academic articles and essays in the fields of political science and international relations, published in scientific journals and media outlets in countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, the United States, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, and Brazil. He is fluent in Portuguese (native language), English, French, and Spanish; he has intermediate knowledge of German and introductory knowledge of Polish.