Welcome to the high-level podcast series run by the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab. This series introduces listeners to the world’s leading figures as they discuss how we can reset in a fairer and a smarter way.
This episode's guest is Sudip Parikh. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive Publisher of the Science journals.
The host is Gabriela Ramos, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences.
The two spent decades at the nexus of science, policy and business, which is the focus of their discussion today. They begin by saying that populism and polarisation are taking hold of science. Belonging to a group – be it political, faith-based or any other – is becoming more important than the truth and scientific fact. Taking refuge in the laboratory and its rationality is no longer an option. Science needs to tailor its communication to the public and, importantly, to step up its engagement with policy. That is not a zero-cost shift. Concrete incentives are needed not only to trigger the right reforms in our traditional structures of science and government, but also to counteract current incentives for active disinformation. And, more than ever, social sciences need to help us navigate the trends and understand the experiments run on global populations in real time.
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Sudip S. Parikh, Ph.D., became the 19th Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals in January 2020. Immediately prior to joining AAAS, Parikh was senior vice president and managing director at DIA Global, a neutral, multidisciplinary organization for healthcare product development, and a vice president at Battelle, a multibillion-dollar research and development organization.
Gabriela Ramos is the Assistant Director General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO. Prior to this, she was the Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20/G7/APEC in the OECD.
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Music: Algorithms by Chad Crouch (CC BY-NC 4.0)