Serageldin Chairs STS Plenary on Food, Nutrition and Population
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As one of the forty founding members of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, was invited on 4 October 2010 to speak at the STS Annual Meeting, which is held on the first Sunday of October every year in Kyoto, Japan.
This year Serageldin chaired a plenary session on “Food, Nutrition and Population”. At special adjunct sessions, he also lent effective contribution as rapporteur to the plenary meetings held on “Adaptation to the Natural and Social Impacts of Regional Climate Change”.
The Forum, which was inaugurated in November 2004, annually gathers top policymakers, business leaders, scientists, researchers, media leaders and Nobel laureates from all over the world, to address science and technology issues in the 21st century.