The Global Forum for Longevity

The Global Forum for Longevity is an initiative from the AXA Group. As a place for interaction and sharing knowledge between experts and the general public, its aim is to understand longevity...

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28 March 2011...

On 28 March 2011, the Collège des Bernardins welcomed the Global Forum for Longevity. A wrap-up in pictures captures the best moments during this day-long pluridisciplinary event. Offering a wellspring to participants, looking for ideas, a chance to share and new proposals, it was also a place to hear speakers from all horizons.




5 questions about longevity

5 questions about longevity


Speakers

In order to broach longevity in all of its complexity and diversity, the Global Forum for Longevity has been structured as a multi-disciplinary, international and trans-generational structure with participants from all horizons.


Robert B. Zoellick

President, World Bank Group

Daniel Vasella

Chairman of Novartis

Pascal Brosset

Senior Vice President Innovation, Schneider Electric (France)

Eric Chaney

Chief Economist AXA Group
Head of Research, AXA Investment Managers (France)
Member of the Scientific Board of the AXA Research Fund (France)

Yseulys Costes

Director and founder of the company 1000mercis (France)

Pr. L. Stephen Coles

Doctor of Medicine and Mathematics
Director of the Gerontology
Research Group, Director of the Supercentenarian Research Foundation, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California at Los Angeles (USA)

Pr. Françoise Forette

Geriatrician
President of the International Longevity Centre (ILC) France, Co-president of the Alliance pour la Santé et l’Avenir (France)

Pr. Carol Jagger

Professor of epidemiology of aging
Institute for Ageing and Health (IAH) – Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Holder of the AXA-Newcastle University Chair on “Longevity and Healthy Active Life”

Pr. Thomas Kirkwood

Professor of medicine and biologist
Director of the Institute for Aging and Health (IAH), Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Co-holder of the AXA-Paris Descartes Chair in "A systems approach to individual differences in longevity"

Pr. Jean-Marie Robine

Demographer and epidemiologist
Head of Research at INSERM (National Health and Medical Research Institute) – Paris and Montpellier (France)
Principal investigator of the AXA-5-COOP research project

Pr. James W. Vaupel

Demographer
Founder and director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research – Rostock (Germany)
Member of the Scientific Board of the AXA Research Fund

Edward Whitehouse

Economist
Head of Pension Policy Analysis in the Social Policy Division of the OECD

Raphael Wittenberg

Economist
Economist at the UK's Department of Health, professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom)
Principal investigator of the AXA-LSE research project “How can private long-term care insurance supplement state systems?”

First meetings at the Global Forum for Longevity, Monday, 28 March 2011

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