On the 10th May at 1pm Mari Sundli Tveit, Chief Executive of the Research Council of Norway, shared her views on the role of a national funder in supporting the great social mission of the research & innovation system, and the part it plays in development by promoting and enabling change and sustainability, not least through groundbreaking research.
Venue: Chartered Accountants House, Pearse St, Dublin 2
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Mari Sundli Tveit is Chief Executive of the Research Council of Norway. She has extensive leadership experience and expertise in research and research policy. Her previous position as policy director at the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) has also given her substantial insight into the research and innovation needs of business and industry.
She has previously been rector of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and Chair of the Board of the Norwegian University and College Council. Sundli Tveit studied nature management (Cand. Agric.) at the universities of Tromsø, Trondheim and Bergen, and has a PhD in landscape architecture from UMB (now NMBU).
Sundli Tveit has held a number of positions in the R&D sector, including on the boards of the European University Association and of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
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Kevin Burke
National Director for Horizon Europe, Enterprise Ireland
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Medb Corcoran
Managing Director, Accenture Labs
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Prof Jim Livesey
VP for Research and Innovation, University of Galway
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Chair: Prof Norelee Kennedy
VP for Research and Innovation, University of Limerick
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