Tag: John Beddington

14th January 2013 New Delhi, India

Head of Science & Innovation, India

GCSA at the Indian Science Congress

For my first day back at work in New Year I had the pleasure of welcoming UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sir John Beddington (@uksciencechief) back to India. He was in Kolkata to speak at the inauguration of the 100th annual Indian Science Congress. Founded in 1914, in Kolkata, the Congress was the initiative […]

17th February 2012 Washington DC, USA

by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

The science of romance (or the romance of science…)

I have become very fond of the US, despite having been here less than 3 months. But I have to acknowledge that life keeps foiling my penchant for romantic gestures. It’s not that, I should hasten to say, that the US itself lacks romance. I found the soaring skyline and raised L trains in Chicago […]