UNLOC promoted at meeting of high-level international policymakers

The 11th session of the Ministerial UK Russia Joint Committee on Scientific and Technical Co-operation took place on October 17th.

UNLOC Deputy Director Prof Sergei Turitsyn (Aston University, pictured) promoted the project at the meeting, which was held at the Royal Society.

The top level meeting was chaired by Vince Cable, Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, and Minister Livanov, Russian Federation Ministry of Education & Science, and gathered together top government officials and advisers on international relations, including HMA Tim Barrow, (UK Ambassador to Russia), Ambassador Yakavenko, (Russian Ambassador to the UK), and officers of the UK’s Science & Innovation Network, TSB, the British Council, the Royal Society, Research Councils UK, the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK Higher Education International Unit (HEIU), and high level delegation from the Russian side.