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Welcome to the Science Summit at UNGA76, a major contribution to advancing Science for the UN SDGs. Online from 14- September - 5 October 2021.
ISC will organise the second edition of the UNGA76 Science Summit around the 76th United Nations General Assembly (SSUNGA76) in September 2021. The objective of the virtual meeting will be to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It will demonstrate initiatives that provide models for global science mechanisms and activities in support of the SDGs, particularly in science infrastructure and capacity building. Science is and will enable sustainable economic, environmental, and societal development. Science is more than a funding prioritisation exercise: science is impacting all areas of policy-making and is playing a more critical role in how policy objectives are achieved and the consequent benefit to people everywhere, including responses to global challenges.
Engagement with policy leadership is more important than ever: UNGA76 is a unique forum for science to demonstrate how policy and political leadership can benefit from innovation. Central to this is the role of nonstate actors and the multilateral fora, which increasingly determine how priorities are set. Science needs to be part of this dialogue and inform outputs through thought leadership, evidence, insights, analysis, and innovation.

Registration is available here.
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Mattia Prayer Galletti

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialised agency of the United Nations
Mattia Prayer Galletti is the Lead Technical Specialist at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), focusing on Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Issues.

Prayer Galletti joined IFAD in 1988. For more than twenty years, he has worked as Country Programme Manager in the Asia and the Pacific Division, overseeing country programs in Bhutan, Laos, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific-sub-region, Iran, China, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. In 2011, he moved to the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD as Senior Evaluation Officer, responsible for corporate-level evaluations.

Prayer Galletti holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Bologna, Italy, and a master’s degree in Economics of Agro-Food Systems and Development Studies from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He also lectures at UC Berkeley during the fall semester.