UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT

Report team
Director of the Publication:
Flavia Schlegel, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences
Editor-in-Chief:
Susan Schneegans
Researcher/Editor:
Deniz Eröcal
Statistical support:
Wilfried Amoussou-Guénou, Chiao-Ling Chien, Oula Hajjar,
Sirina Kerim-Dikeni, Luciana Marins, Rohan Pathirage,
Zahia Salmi and Martin Schaaper
Administrative assistants:
Ali Barbash and Edith Kiget
Editorial Board:
Zohra ben Lakhdar, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of
Tunis, Tunisia
Can Huang, Professor and Deputy Head of Department
of Management, Science and Engineering at the School of
Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Dong-Pil Min, Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University
and Member, Scientific Advisory Board to United Nations
Secretary-General
Gabriela Dutrénit, Professor of Economics and Management of
Innovation, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico
Fred Gault, Professorial Fellow, United Nations University–
MERIT, Netherlands
Ousmane Kane, President of Steering Committee, National
Academy of Science and Technology of Senegal
Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Professor, National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
Slavo Radosevic, Professor of Industry and Innovation Studies,
Acting Director, School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
University College, London
J. Thomas Ratchford, former Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs at the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy, USA
Internal Review Committee:
Salvatore Arico, Chiao-Ling Chien, Paulina Gonzales-Pose,
Gaith Fariz, Bhanu Neupane, Peggy Oti-Boateng, Rohan
Pathirage, Jayakumar Ramasamy, Martin Schaaper and
April Tash
Thanks go also to:
Sonia Bahri, Alessandro Bello, Anathea Brooks, Isabelle
Brugnon, Andrea Gisselle Burbano Fuertes, Anne Candau,
Alison Clayson, Natasha Lazic, Bassam Safeiddine, Natalia
Tolochko, Carl Vannetelbosch and Rebecca Vella Muskat
Acknowledgments
UNESCO wishes to express its gratitude to Thomson Reuters
for providing the data on publications used throughout
the UNESCO Science Report, in the interests of stimulating a
global debate on relevant policy issues. UNESCO also wishes
to thank the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’
Fund for International Development and the Swiss Federal
University of Lausanne for their financial support. UNESCO
also wishes to extend its thanks to the L’Oréal Foundation for
sponsoring the chapter in the report entitled ‘Is the gender
gap narrowing in science and engineering?’
A number of partners have also contributed to the
dissemination of the report’s findings by sponsoring and/or
translating other language editions of the executive
summary of the report. Thanks go to the Government of
Flanders (French, Russian and Spanish editions), the Egyptian
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (Arabic
edition), the China Association for Science and Technology
(Chinese edition), the National Commissions for UNESCO of
Austria, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland (German
edition) and the National Commission for UNESCO of Andorra
(Catalan edition).
UNESCO also takes this opportunity to thank the partners who
have committed to producing editions of the full report in the
official languages of the United Nations.
Shuan Sadreghazi, Research fellow, Innovation Studies and
Development, United Nations University–MERIT, Netherlands
Yerbol Suleimenov, Deputy Chair, Science Committee of
Ministry of Education and Science, Kazakhstan
Peter Tindemans, Secretary-General, Euroscience
Cardinal Warde, Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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