COUNTRY	EGYPT
NAME	ISMAIL SERAGELDIN
AWARD	Scientific Research In Africa
PROFILE	The Prize for Scientific Research in Africa goes to a group or individual who channelled the inventions of mankind to better the lives of Africans through enhanced scientific research. Scientific research that has had direct impact on the lives of the citizens of the Continent. Through the establishment of scientific research centres, Africans can provide solutions to the peculiar needs of her people. He serves as Chair and Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions and civil society efforts which includes the Institut d'Egypte (Egyptian Academy of Science), TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences), the Indian National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Brookings Doha Center and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is Co-Chair of the African Biotechnology Panel (with Calestous Juma). He is a foreign fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. Ismail Serageldin (born 1944 in Giza, Egypt) is the director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He worked in a number of capacities at the World Bank since joining in 1972. Economist in education and human resources (1972-76); Division Chief for Technical Assistance and Special Studies (1977-80), and for Urban Projects in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (1980-83); Director for Programs in West Africa (1984-87), Country Director for Central and Occidental Africa (1987-89), Technical Director for all Sub­Saharan Africa (1990-92), and Vice-President for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (1993-98).

CONCLUSION

This website has attempted to unfold Chief Osawaru Igbinedion from the cradle to manhood and from a humble beginning to a position of enermous affluence...READ ON