Science Initiative Group
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The Science Initiative Group (SIG) is an international team of scientific leaders and supporters dedicated to fostering science in developing countries. SIG serves as facilitator and catalyst for the Millennium Science Initiative (MSI), bringing together the various groups whose involvement is needed to establish a country or regional MSI and providing scientific guidance and oversight. SIG works closely with The World Bank, local scientific communities and governments to adapt the MSI model to each country's unique situation, and then to assemble an appropriate financing package.
Besides its involvement with Millennium Science Initiative, SIG is spearheading the establishment of the Global Science Corps, which will send scientists from the US and other developed and advanced developing countries to train and collaborate with their counterparts in developing countries
SIG's work is supported by grants from David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
[edit] SIG Board Members
- Phillip A. Griffiths, Chairman; Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
- Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Executive Director, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)
- J. Tomas Hexner, Entrepreneur, Development Consultant
- Chung W. Kim, Professor Emeritus and Chairman, Advisory Board, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
- Jacob Palis, Professor, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
- C.N.R. Rao, President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
- Harold Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
