The former chief scientific advisor to the British government will give the annual Arthur J. Carty lecture.
WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011) - The former chief scientific advisor to the British government will give the annual Arthur J. Carty lecture at the University of Waterloo this week.
Sir David King, currently the director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University, was the British government's chief scientific advisor under prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and head of the government office for science from 2000 until 2007.
King's lecture, to be held Friday, is entitled Do Governments Need Science Advisors?. The talk will draw on a wide range of issues King faced in government, such as the world’s largest foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, advising security services after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and establishing the world's first adaptation strategy against climate impacts for the British Isles.
The talk, hosted by the faculty of science, will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the J. G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities, room 1101.
The Arthur J. Carty Lectureship was established by distinguished professor emeritus Francis W. Karasek to honour Arthur J. Carty, former chair of the Waterloo chemistry department and the current executive director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology.
"We are delighted to welcome Sir David King to the University of Waterloo and look forward to hearing his insights on the potential of the science advisory system in governance," said Arthur Carty. "Now in its fifth year, the Arthur J. Carty Lectureship continues to attract high profile individuals with expertise in a variety of scientific topics."
The talk will be followed by a reception. Please RSVP to carty.eventbrite.com or call 519-888-4567 ext. 38804.
Image: Sir David King, director, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, Oxford University.
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Contacts:
Joanna Magee, communications officer, faculty of science, 519-888-4567 ext. 38983 or jmagee@uwaterloo.ca
John Morris, Waterloo media relations, 519-888-4435 or john.morris@uwaterloo.ca
Waterloo news release no. 56
