2017 News and Events: IIASA Director General and CEO
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2017
IIASA and the Netherlands
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat will make a visit to the Netherlands on 18-21 December 2017, in order to enhance collaborations between the Netherlands and IIASA. More
Israel joins IIASA
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) announced today that Israel has become its newest member country. Israel joins 24 other countries whose National Member Organization’s representatives constitute the IIASA Governing Council. More
Science Diplomacy – Looking Towards 2030 by Sir Peter Gluckman
Chief Science Advisor to the Government of New Zealand and Chair of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), Sir Peter Gluckman is to deliver a IIASA 45th Anniversary Lecture. More
IIASA Leadership at the World Science Forum 2017
IIASA Director General and CEO, Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, will visit Jordan to participate in the World Science Forum 2017, which will take place in Amman on 7-11 November 2017. More
IIASA Leadership at the 11th Belmont Forum Plenary
IIASA Director General and CEO, Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, will visit Brazil to participate in the 11th Belmont Forum Plenary. More
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IIASA leadership at the 9th Canadian Science Policy Conference
IIASA Director General and CEO, Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, visited Canada to participate in the 9th Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) which took place in Ottawa on 1-3 November 2017. More
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IIASA and India
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat made an official visit to India on 25-27 October 2017. More
AFI at the Fifth Arctic Circle Assembly
The IIASA-led Arctic Futures Initiative at the Arctic Circle Assembly, 13-15 October 2017 in Reykjavik, Iceland More
IIASA Governing Council elects new Chair
Professor Michael Clegg of the USA has been elected as Council Chair by the IIASA Governing Council, the institute’s governing body. More
IIASA celebrates 45 years
Since its early days as an East-West institute crossing the Cold War divide, IIASA has developed into a leading international institute addressing global challenges of the 21st century. More
IIASA activities surrounding the UN General Assembly
As the United Nations meets for its annual general assembly in New York, IIASA leaders and staff members will take part in a number of related events, bringing the institute's expertise in sustainable development pathways to one of the most important meetings of international policymakers. More
German Aerospace Center visits IIASA
The visit brought together IIASA experts withleaders in German aerospace research, to discuss areas of common research interest and possible future collaborations. More
IIASA at the European Forum Alpbach 2017 and Alpbach-Laxenburg Group Retreat
In August, IIASA leadership and researchers joined global business leaders, investors, and academics in Alpbach, Austria, to discuss the most pressing challenges of our time, including the development of pathways to sustainable change. At the Political Symposium, co-organized by IIASA, researchers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs discussed key challenges to Europe, multilateralism, peace, security, and a sustainable future. More
IIASA strengthens its partnership with Ferrero
A delegation from Ferrero, the third largest chocolate and confectionary company in the world, visited IIASA to further their innovative industry-research partnership and sign a new Memorandum of Understanding. More
International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific 2017
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat was among the keynote speakers during the 9th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP) that was held in Yokohama, Japan. More
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IIASA and China
IIASA Director General and CEO, Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, made an official visit to the People’s Republic of China from 2-7 July 2017 to participate in the international symposium "Funding Science and People Cooperation for a Prosperous Belt and Road" which was organized by IIASA National Member Organization the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). More
Second place for IIASA in think tank rankings
The International Center for Climate Governance has ranked IIASA second place in their annual global listing of top think tanks for climate change economics and policy. More
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HRH Princess Sumaya of Jordan visits IIASA
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat welcomed HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan to IIASA for a variety of meetings. Princess Sumaya attended a series of sessions in the afternoon with IIASA senior management, researchers, and Young Scientists Summer Program participants, to discuss potential research collaborations. More
Memorandum from the IIASA Council and the IIASA Director General
IIASA Council welcomes the report of the independent Institutional Review of IIASA, and its recommendations to further strengthen IIASA's unique strengths and global reach. More
IIASA Director General meets Austrian President
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat met with Federal President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen at the Hofburg today. More
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IIASA and Canada
IIASA Director General and CEO, Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, visited Canada on 1-2 June 2017 to discuss enhancing collaborations with Canadian research partners. More
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IIASA leadership visits Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat will lead an official delegation visit to Paris, to enhance research collaborations with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). During his visit, Kabat will attend high-level meetings with OECD stakeholders and the Austrian Ambassador in Paris, and also give a lecture on systems analysis to OECD staff. More
Finnish Research Directors visit IIASA
On 23-24 May 2017 the IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, Program Directors, and other IIASA researchers will meet with a Government Working Group from the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office to discuss current IIASA-Finland research collaborations and how these can be enhanced further. More
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Vienna Energy Forum to contribute to successful implementation of SDGs and Paris Agreement
The discussion at this year’s Vienna Energy Forum served as an important contribution to the debate and review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate agreement and their successful implementation, said participants at the event taking place in the capital of Austria. More
Vienna Energy Forum 2017
The biennal Vienna Energy Forum brings together researchers, policymakers, and civil society for a high-level summit on energy and its linkages to sustainable development and climate change. More
Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan visits IIASA
H.E. Bakyt Dzhusupov, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the International Organizations in Vienna, met with Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, IIASA Director General and CEO, to discuss potential research collaborations between Kyrgyzstan and IIASA. More
The former President of Iceland visits IIASA
Dr. Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson, the former President of Iceland and Professor Lassi Heininen, University of Lapland, Finland, met with IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat and gave presentations on “The Arctic: The last modern frontier - The first future frontier” and”Arctic geopolitics - high stability as an asset to reformulate world politics”in symposium in the Wodak room on 27 April 2017. More
IIASA and Brazil
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat led an official delegation visit to Brasília and São Paulo, Brazil from the 19-25 April 2017 to attend a number of high-level meetings and enhance research collaborations with Brazil. More
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Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan visits IIASA
H.E. Kairat Sarybay, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Austria and to the International Organizations in Vienna met with IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat to discuss IIASA research and potential ways of enhancing collaborations. More
IIASA leadership in Russia
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat participated in the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) congress, and the Russian Business Week, a key annual event of the RSPP. During his time in Moscow, Kabat attended a number of high-level meetings to further enhance research collaborations with Russia. He also gave a lecture at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). More
IIASA and USA
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat will travel to Colorado to hold a number of high-level meetings and strengthen research collaborations with the USA. Kabat will also give lectures at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and at the Colorado State University to the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) group. More
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IIASA and Japan
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat led an official delegation visit to Tokyo, to attend a number of high-level meetings and enhance research collaborations with Japan. The delegation also participated in a symposium titled “IIASA and Japan: Future Prospects for Closer Collaboration Centering around The World in 2050 (TWI2050) Project”, co-organized with the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (IAS) of the United Nations University (UNU). More
IIASA Director General at Alexander Van der Bellen inauguration reception
IIASA Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat was invited to attend President-elect of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen’s inauguration reception on 26 January. Kabat also had the opportunity to meet with Van der Bellen at a special reception prior to the Vienna Ball of Sciences on 28 January. More
IIASA leadership at the Earth League Symposium 2017
The Earth League, an IIASA research partner, is an international network of leading scientists working on pressing issues facing humankind today. This year’s annual symposium focused on the ambitions and challenges set out in the Paris climate agreement in 2015. More
Russia and IIASA: Setting priorities
An IIASA delegation led by Director General and CEO Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat visited Moscow to participate in the Gaidar Forum - the major annual international scientific conference in the field of economy in Russia. At the forum, Kabat strengthened cooperation between Russia and IIASA through meetings with leading experts in government and academia, including Prime Minister of the Russian FederationDmitry Medvedev. While IIASA's demographers presented their latest research findings about Russia. More
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