International Missions

China

  • In December 2008, Lord Browne and Peter Saraga OBE FREng led a delegation of Fellows to China as part of a return visit hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). The highlight of the trip was a symposium on Energy and Climate Change held at Peking University in Beijing. UK speakers included Prof Brian Collins, Chief Scientific Advisor to BERR and DfT, Prof Nigel Brandon FREng, Shell Chair of Sustainable Development in Energy and Executive Director of the Energy Futures Lab, Imperial College, Mr John Loughhead FREng, Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, and Sir Patrick Haren FREng, Group Chief Executive Viridian Group. The Academy will be hosting a return symposium in early 2010.

  • In November 2008, Peter Saraga OBE FREng, the Academy’s Honorary International Secretary, led a delegation to Tokyo to participate in a symposium on ‘Privacy and Security in the Information Society’ held jointly with the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ) and hosted by the British Embassy. The symposium provided an opportunity to bring the Academy’s 2007 report, Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance, to an international audience, and to explore the commonalities and differences in the British and Japanese treatments of the subject. The UK speakers were Prof Nigel Gilbert FREng, University of Surrey and chair of the group that produced the Academy’s Dilemmas report; Prof Andy Hopper CBE FREng FRS, University of Cambridge; Prof Cliff Jones FREng, University of Newcastle; Dr Martyn Thomas CBE FREng, Martyn Thomas Associates Ltd; Dr Maire O’Neill, Queen’s University Belfast and former Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow; and Dr Andrew Adams, University of Reading and former holder of an Academy Global Research Award. The Academy will be hosting a return symposium in late 2009/early 2010.

 

 

Updated July 2012

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