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Jennifer Cassingena Harper is the Director of Policy within the Malta Council for Science and Technology with responsibility for National Research and Innovation Strategy and Foresight.  She is a graduate of Keele University, and the London School of Economics. Dr Harper represents Malta at EU level in CREST and the JRC Board of Governors. She has been active on a number of EU High Level Expert Groups: rapporteur, Agriculture Foresight Expert Group (2006) and the EU HLG on Key Technologies (2005), member, Regional Foresight (2001), and Mobility of Researchers (2000). She is currently rapporteur of the ERA Rationales Panel. Dr Harper is also active in EU projects: FP6 ERANET ForSociety, INNFORMED and RESIST projects, Interreg 3C FUTURREG project, EFMN and the JRC IPTS FTA Seville Conference organizing committee in 2006 and 2008. She lectures in foresight within the University of Malta’s Masters Programme in Innovation and Creativity. Her research interests include International Level Foresight and STI Policy and Evaluation with particular emphasis on transition economies.

Lisa Pace is a Senior Researcher with the Malta Council for Science & Technology. She is a biologist by training and currently a doctoral candidate with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR/PREST) at the University of Manchester, with a research interest in transitions to sustainable greener economies and dynamics of innovation processes. She has extensive experience in mapping national research and innovation landscapes and was involved in a number of EU projects including FP6 Resist (Researching Inequalities through Science & Technology), Interreg IIIC Futurreg Project and a COST Action 22 on Foresight Methodologies.