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| Peter HAVLIK |
| The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) |
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He is Deputy Director and Senior Economist in WIIW. He holds a Master's degree in statistics from Vienna University. He worked over the years on various issues of economic transition in Central and East European countries, foreign trade, competitiveness, EU integration, economic statistics, Russian economy.
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havlik@wiiw.ac.at |
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| Michal JAWORKSI |
| Microsoft Poland |
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He holds a M.Sc. Eng. (Warsaw Technical University, 1985), IT industry veteran in Poland – since late 80’s involved in the personal computer revolution; working for Polish private IT companies since 1987, joined Dell Computer Poland from very beginning of its local operations (1992); since 1994 at Microsoft
- managing sales group working on enterprise, public sector and academic market; since 2003 dedicated to marketing of Microsoft technology platform; cooperating on many projects with Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw School of Social Psychology and TIGER (Transformation Integration Globalization Economic Research) as well as number of educational initiatives;
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| Council Member of Polish IT and Telecommunication Chamber of Commerce (PIIT) since
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michalja@MICROSOFT.com |
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| Ian MILES |
| PREST, University of Manchester |
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Ian Miles graduated in psychology from the University of Manchester. After working at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University for eighteen years, he joined PREST in 1990. His research interests are broad ones, as are the range of methodologies he applies. Much of his work on technological innovation has concerned new Information Technologies, and he has been particularly interested in service industries as users and sources of innovation. He has also carried out work on 'clean' technologies and on the social and employment implications of changing technology. Other interests include the evaluation of social science and environmental research programmes, social indicators, and forecasting methods. As well as being a Director of PREST, he is also a Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, in which PREST is the leading partner.
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ian.miles@manchester.ac.uk |
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| Corina PASCU |
| European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies |
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She is currently a scientific officer in JRC/IPTS, carrying prospective research on ICT policy related areas. She is running the FISTERA Thematic Network - a pioneering ERA-based project aimed at bringing together national foresight exercises in Information Society Technologies, and also having contributed to a series of studies on the prospects for developing the Information Society in the new Member States and Candidate Countries and ICT & Enlargement. She assisted the Commission as expert-evaluator in the EC’s IST programmes since 1997. In her “other” life before European Commission times, she managed the PHARE TEMPUS programme in Romania and she spent some years in research on IST and teaching computer science and telecommunications classes in the Department of Computer Science of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (PUB).
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corina.pascu@cec.eu.int |
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| Rafael POPPER |
| PREST, University of Manchester |
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Rafael Popper (Economist) worked in the International Centre for Science and High Technology (ICS) in Italy since December 2000 for the UNIDO´s Technology Foresight Programme as the specialist in foresight methods and online tools. Rafael has conducted several foresight-related projects, training courses and conferences (Austria, Belgium, England, Finland, Hungary, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela). He has been advising foresight initiatives in Latin America.
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| He has worked as independent virtual-consultant for foresight and futures studies projects in the academic and governmental level in Venezuela and since August 2002 he coordinates the management of online foresight tools for the Futures Studies Centre of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration (BUESPA) in Hungary. In September 2002 Rafael Popper moved to the UK to join PREST as a Research Associate. Rafael is currently working on the EUFORIA and FISTERA projects. |
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Rafael.popper@manchester.ac.uk |
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| Roberto SARACCO |
| TILAB |
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Since 2001 he is director of the Future Centre, a research centre, part of Telecom Italia Lab, charged to develop scenarios to evaluate the economic impact of technology and innovation. Academic profile: graduated in Computer Science, University degree in Mathematics and doctorate in Elementary Particles Physics. He has published over 100 papers in Journals and Magazines, four books
- the latest “The disappearance of Telecommunications” published in the USA
- and several articles in the scientific section of daily newspapers.
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http://fc.telecomitalialab.com/english/futuroinarrivo.htm |
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Roberto.saracco@tilab.com |
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| Gabriella SIMOR |
| Ministry of Informatics and Communications, HU |
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She has a university degree from the American Endowment School in Budapest and post-graduate specialisations in European Business Administration and European Studies. She is currently working as an officer for EU affairs in the Ministry of Informatics and Communications, Department of EU Integration.
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