Joy Zhang

I felt very privileged to co-organise this UK-India dialogue on BioGovernance and Science Diplomacy with Krishna Ravi Srinivas at the RIS in Delhi last week, as part of a series of discussions leading up to this year’s G20 meeting. (Background paper and full agenda can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eMdA5Gzn)

We were thrilled to have Dr Renu Swarup give the opening keynote and launch our special issue on ‘Bioeconomy for the Common Good’.

Very grateful for the stimulating contributions from Prof. Madhav Govind, Prof. Maneesha Inamdar, Deep Narayan, Dr Ruth Cooper and Nadim Khan from The Royal Society, Prof N. K. Mehra from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Prof. Mark Smales and Dr. Trude Diesen Sundberg from University of Kent, Dr. Katja Lasch, Prof Michael Barr from Newcastle University Dr. Roli Mathur from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Professor Pawan K. Dhar, Suryesh K Namdeo, PhD and Dr. Rose Trappes. I was really glad to share my British Academy project’s findings on ‘diffractive knowledge production’ between UK-India bioscientific collaborations.

A special thanks to Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi for his consistent support and for his concluding speech. 

Conference report and next steps to follow.