Serageldin Chairs Plenary Session at STS Annual Meeting
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At the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, chaired a plenary session entitled "How do we Move Forward to Maintain Sustainability for the Future of Humankind?".
Speakers at the session were Carlo Rubbia, Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Nobel Laureate for Physics; Jeremy Grantham, Co-founder of Grantham Mayo Van Otterlo (GMO); António Correia de Campos, Chairperson of Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Committee at the European Parliament; and Koji Omi, STS Forum Founder and Chairperson.
It is worth mentioning that Serageldin is one of the forty founding members of the STS Forum, which was inaugurated in November 2004. The Forum 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.