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	Visits by leading UK scientists

We work together with the British Embassy and the British Consulate to bring renowned scientists and specialists in public policies in science and technology to Brazil to exchange ideas with their peers and with policy makers and members of the government about hot issues in science and technology and on the way each country is dealing with the political and ethical aspects generated by some of them.

		Baroness Susan Greenfield
		Baroness Susan Greenfield, the renowned British neuroscientist, will visit Brazil in December. Learn more about the brain in one of her lectures

Sir David King

Sir David King, the UK's Chief Government Science Adviser, visited Brazil in June 2005. As the UK Government's top adviser on climate change he met with Brazilian experts and policymakers in the run-up to the G8 meeting in Scotland. During his visit he also gave numerous media interviews and gave a public lecture at which he outlined the key challenges facing the planet. During his visit Sir David King launched our ZeroCarbonCity campaign in Brazil with the opening of the exhibition NorthSouthEastWest.

Download Sir David King's presentation. (12 Mb)

		Sir John Sulston
		In 2004 the Nobel Prize-winner Sir John Sulston visited Brazil. During his visit he participated in the seminar and debate “Genoma: Ética e Propriedade Intelectual na Pesquisa” (Genome: Ethics and Intellectual Property in Research), met his peers for scientific conversations and visited research institutions in Sao Paulo. He also participated in a meeting with top researchers in Rio de Janeiro, which was shown by video-conference to their peers in Recife. Learn everything about this visit.