Dr. Ismail Serageldin Vice President of the Third World Academy

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        Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has assumed his position as Vice President of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the Arab region, as of January 2004 for a term of three years. Members of the TWAS council unanimously elected Dr. Serageldin during their 14th General Meeting in Bejing, 15 October 2003 on the occasion of celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Academy. TWAS is an autonomous international organization that was founded in Trieste in 1983 by a distinguished group of scientists from the South under the leadership of the late Pakistani Nobel laureate Abdus Salam. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable development in the South. It was officially launched by the then-secretary general of the United Nations, Javier Perez de Cuellar, in 1985.


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