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Jury members
The independent jury that judges proposals for the European Inventor Award consists of international authorities in the fields of politics, business, media, science, academia and research.
Jerzy Buzek is a member of the European Parliament, and served as the Parliament's President from July 2009 until January 2012. He currently sits on the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and is a substitute member of its Industry, Research and Energy Committee. Mr Buzek served as the Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001.
Wolfgang Heckl is the Director General of the Deutsches Museum and a professor of scientific communication in the School of Education at the Munich University of Technology. He is also the Managing Director of ENNaB: the Excellence Network NanoBio Technology in Munich.
Emma Marcegaglia is Managing Director of the steel manufacturing company Marcegaglia S.p.a. and its subsidiaries. She is also President of Confindustria, the leading organisation representing manufacturing and service companies in Italy.
Peter Marsh is manufacturing editor at the Financial Times. He received the UK Business Journalist of the Year award in the manufacturing category in 2002. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production (Yale University Press, 2012).
Agnete Raaschou-Nielsen has a PhD in economics and has held senior-management level positions in companies such as Aalborg Portland, Coca-Cola and Carlsberg. She is also a former Managing Director of Zacco Denmark, an intellectual property consultancy. Currently she serves on the Board of Directors of several Danish companies.
Ernö Rubik is an architect, designer, university professor and inventor of the Rubik's Cube. He founded Rubik Studio Ltd. and acts as its Managing Director. He formerly served as President of the Hungarian Engineering Academy, which he helped to found.
Margarita Salas is the President of both the Royal Board of the National Library of Spain and the Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer. She is Dr. ad honorem of the Spanish National Research Council as well as President of Fundación Severo Ochoa.
Thierry Sueur is the Vice President of Intellectual Property and of European and International Affairs at AIR LIQUIDE, an international producer and distributor of cryogenic liquids and gases. He also serves as Chairman of the Patent Working Group of Business Europe, as Vice-Chairman of the Board of the French Intellectual Property Office and as President of the French Group of AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property).