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Science & the City Gala Chairs
Confirmed unless otherwise noted: August 30, 2011
Honorees
• Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations
• Patrick Kennedy, former Congressman, Rhode Island; Co-Chair. One \lind for Research
• John Sexton, President, New York University
• Garen Staglin, Co-Chair, One Mind for Research; Co-Founder. International Mental Health
Research Organization
• Winners of the NYAS Blavatnik Young Scientist Awards
Honorary Chairs
• Len Blavatnik, Founder & Chairman, Access Industries
• Marcelo L. Ebrard Casaubon, Mayor, Mexico City
• Najib Tun Abdul Rank, Prime Minister, Malaysia
• James Simons, President, Renaissance Technologies; Co-Founder, Simons Foundation
• Marilyn Simons, Co-Founder & President, Simons Foundation
• James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate, Chancellor Emeritus, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
• Frank Wilczelc, Nobel Laureate; Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, M.I.T.
Chairs
• Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO
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Kenneth L. Davis, President & Chief Executive Officer, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
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Mikael Dolsten, President of Worldwide Research & Development, Pfizer Inc
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Thomas L. Harrison, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Diversified Agency Services, Division of
Omnicom Group Inc.
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Paul Stoffels, Company Group Chairman, Global Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals,
Johnson & Johnson
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Paul Walker, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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Nancy Zimpher, Chancellor, The State University of New York
Vice-Chairs
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Marc Bonnefoi, Head of North America R&D Hubs, Sanofi
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Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor, The City University of New York
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Steven Hochberg, Managing Partner, Ascent Biomedical Ventures; Chair, Continuum Health Partners
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Toni Hoover, Senior Vice President, Global Research & Development, Pfizer Inc
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Mehmood Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Global Nutrition Group & Chief Scientific Officer,
PepsiCo
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John Tedstrom, President & CEO, GBC Health
Distinguished Participants
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Armen Avanessians, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Group
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Milton Cofield, Vice Chancellor, New York State Education Dept. Board of Regents; Executive
Director, Undergraduate Business Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University
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Amir Dossal, Chairman, Global Partnership Forum
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Alexey Komissarov, Chair, Department of Science & Entrepreneurship, Moscow City Government
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Kevin Parker, Member, Group Executive Committee & Global Head, Asset Management, Deutsche
Bank
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Ilya Ponomarev, Chairman, Hi-Tech Development Subcommittee, Duma, Russia
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Michael Purdy, Executive Vice President, Research, Columbia University
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Jack Rosen, Founder & CEO, Rosen Partners; Chair, American Jewish Congress
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Craig Thompson, President & CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Jan Vilcek, President & Co-Founder, Vilcek Foundation
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Marica Vilcek, Vice President & Co-Founder, Vilcek Foundation
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