Office for Science and Technology
Embassy of France in the USA

Science breakfasts


Together with the Science Diplomats Club, the Office of Science and Technology organizes monthly Science Breakfasts, where a prominent member of the American science and technology community, speaks to an audience of counselors from embassies in Washington.

Since the first session, in January 2007, 30 to 40 guests from 15 to 20 different countries, have an occasion to strengthen ties with American leaders in science and technology and also to ask them questions and spur dialog within a favorable context. Such ties have sometimes been followed by more formal agreements, like in Homeland Security, after the visit of its Undersecretary for S&T, or with DOE, NOAA, …
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    Science Breakfast - April 2012 - Linda Birnbaum

    published on February 15, 2012
    Dr. Linda Birnbaum is Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Toxicology Program Division. she will give a presentation to and engaged with the Science Diplomats Club of Washington, DC on Thursday, April 12, 2012.
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    Science Breakfast - February 2012 - Robynn Sturm Steffen

    published on January 18, 2012
    Ms. Robynn Sturm Steffen is in charge of Open Innovation, as Advisor to the Deputy Director in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She will give a presentation to and engage with the Science Diplomats Club of Washington, DC on Thursday, February 9, 2012.
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    Fifth Anniversary Breakfast - January 2012 - Jim Turner and Malcolm (...)

    published on January 12, 2012
    In honor of five years of Science Diplomats Club science breakfasts at the Embassy of France, the Royal Netherlands Embassy will be hosting a meeting with speakers Jim Turner and Malcolm Butler of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.
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    Science Breakfast - January 2012 - Dr. David Bowen

    published on January 10, 2012
    Dr. David Bowen is CEO of Malaria No More.
    Until November 2011, he was Deputy Director for Global Health Policy and Advocacy at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, he has responsibility for interactions between the Foundation and governments worldwide. He will give a presentation to and engaged with the Science Diplomats Club of Washington, DC on Thursday, January 12, 2012.
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    Science Breakfast - November 2011 - Alex Dehgan

    published on November 4, 2011
    Dr. Alex Dehgan is the Science and Technology Adviser to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and heads the Office of Science and Technology within the new Bureau of Policy, Planning, and Learning. He gave a presentation to and engaged with the Science Diplomats Club of Washington, DC on Thursday, November 10, 2011.
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    Science Breakfast - September 2011 - William Colglazier

    published on September 7, 2011
    Dr. E. William Colglazier was appointed in July 2011 as the fourth Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State.
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    May 2011 - Hon. William Magwood

    published on April 29, 2011
    The Honorable William D. Magwood, IV was sworn in as a Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on April 1, 2010.
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    March 2011 - Robert Atkinson

    published on February 16, 2011
    Robert Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
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    February 2011 - Dr. Susan Amara

    published on January 21, 2011
    Dr. Susan Amara is the president of the Society for Neuroscience.
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    January 2011 - Subra Suresh

    published on January 13, 2011
    Dr. Subra Suresh is director of the National Science Foundation.
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