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INGSA2024:High Level Opening Ceremony and Plenary Address

  • Kigali Convention Centre | Meeting Hall (MH) 1 & 2 KN 5 Road Kigali, Kigali City Rwanda (map)

| INGSA2024 Co-hosts’ welcomes:

• Rémi Quirion, President INGSA and Québec Chief Scientist – Canada

• Doyin Odubanjo, Chair of INGSA-Africa

| Chapters/Division plenary:

• Rémi Quirion, President INGSA and Québec Chief Scientist – Canada

• Kristiann Allen, Executive Secretary of INGSA

• Doyin Odubanjo, Chair of INGSA-Africa

• Wee Hoe Tan, Chair of INGSA-Asia

• Patricia Gadaleta, Representing INGSA-LAC Chapter

• Alfred Bizoza, Head of the INGSA-Africa Rwanda Hub

• Mathieu Ouimet, Director General of the Réseau francophone international en conseil scientifique (RIFCS)

• Rokia Ballo, Lead on the INCLUSIVE Project and INGSA-Europe Chapter

• Chris Tyler, lead on the INGSA Legislative Chapter

| Fireside Discussion:

• Romain Murenzi: Professor of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and former Executive Director of The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (TWAS) – Rwanda/USA

• Adeline Cyuzuzo: Environmentalist and Coordinator of Storytelling Working Group, Loss and Damage Youth Coalition – Rwanda

• Kristiann Allen, Executive Secretary of INGSA

| Morning Tea-coffee break

| Welcome Remarks:

• Hon. Gaspard Twagirayezu: Rwandan Minister of Education

| INGSA President welcome remarks:

• Rémi Quirion, President INGSA and Québec Chief Scientist – Canada

| INGSA2024 Guest of Honour Remarks:

• TBC

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