InEquality: The New Silk Road
For more than 1000 years the legendary silk road brought together European and Asian cultures leading to a flourishing trading and knowledge transfer. Currently China is investing heavily again in the former silk road in order to revitalize the legendary trade route. At the same time Europe and the US primarily rely on trade agreements. What can trade routes offer in the age of the world wide web?
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Chang-Chieh HANG
Professor and Head of Division, Engineering and Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, National University of Singapore; Executive Director, Institute for Engineering Leadership, Singapore
1973 | Ph.D, Control Engineering, University of Warwick |
1974-1977 | Computer and Systems Technologist, Shell Eastern Petroleum Company, Singapore; Computer and Systems Technologist, Shell International Petroleum Company, Netherlands |
since 1977 | Vice-Dean, Faculty of Engineering, and Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore |
1991-1999 | Deputy Chairman, National Science & Technology Board |
1994-2000 | Deputy Vice-Chancellor, National University of Singapore |
2001-2003 | Executive Deputy Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology and Research |
2001-2009 | Founding Chairman, IPOS - Intellectual Property Office of Singapore |
since 2004 | Executive Director, Institute for Engineering Leadership, and Head, Division of Engineering and Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering, National Science & Technology Board |
Dr. Andreas WILD
Former Executive Director, Joint Undertaking ENIAC and ECSEL, Munich
Dr. Andreas Wild retired from the position of Executive Director of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking, a public-private partnership on nanoelectronics, embedded software and smart system integration established as an autonomous European Union body, following the ENIAC JU. Before working in European institutions, he has been the European R&D Director for Freescale Semiconductor and Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, and managed Motorola R&D laboratories in U.S.A. and Latin America. He has an MS degree from the University "Politehnica" Bucharest, and a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Atomic Physics in Bucharest, Romania, authored 28 patents and more than 50 technical publications. He is now consulting. |
M.A.Arch Li ZHANG
Founding Partner, Atelier Team Minus; Chair and Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing
2005 | Founding Partner, Atelier TeamMinus |
since 2007 | Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University |
2012 | Professor of Practice, School of Architecture, Syracuse University |
since 2013 | Editor-in-Chief, World Architecture Magazine Publications |
since 2014 | Director, Planning and Technology Department, Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bid Committee |
DI Dr. MBA Sabine HERLITSCHKA
Chief Executive Officer, Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Villach
1990 | Forscherin, Dissertantin und Post Doctoral Research bei Immuno AG |
1996 | Referatsleiterin und stv. Direktorin des BIT-Büros für Internationale Forschungs- und Technologiekooperation |
2003 | Praktika bei der U.S. National Science Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science und Kooperation mit dem Wissenschaftsberater im U.S. Department of State, Washington DC |
Vizerektorin für Forschungsmanagement und Internationale Kooperationen an der Medizinischen Universität Graz | |
2006 | Bereichsleiterin Europäische und Internationale Programme der FFG - Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft, Wien |
2010 | Fulbright Scholar an der George Washington University und Johns Hopkins University/School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC |
2011 | Vorstandsmitglied der Infineon Technologies Austria AG |
seit 2012 | Vorstand für Technik und Innovation der Infineon Technologies Austria AG |
seit 2014 | Vorstandsvorsitzende der Infineon Technologies Austria AG |