TWAS's 11th General Conference and 20th General Meeting took place in Durban, South Africa, from 20 to 23 October 2009. The conference was hosted by the Academy of Science and Technology of South Africa and supported by South Africa's Department of Science and Technology. The three-day meeting was highlighted by a series of symposia, ranging from an in-depth look at the state of science and technology in South Africa to an examination of the impact that the global financial crisis is having on investments in science in the developing world. TWAS announced the election of 50 new members (Forty-five new 'Fellows' and five new 'Associate Fellows' ). Three memebers are from the Arab Region as follows: 1- CHAIBI, M. Thameur (Tunisia). b.13-5-1961. PhD, Senior Researcher, Department of Human Resources, Science & Technology, African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Chaibi has developed autonomous and integrated complex systems for supporting sustainable livelihood in areas poor in fresh water, thus providing communities with basic needs such as water, food and energy. These include greenhouses, irrigation systems and photosynthesis. He is an elected Fellow of the African Academy of Science and has won the Honor Prize of the Supreme Council of Sciences at the 34th Science Week at Damascus in 1994.
Elected as Fellow. 2- CHAMSEDDINE, Ali Hani (Lebanon). b.20-2-1953, PhD, Professor, Physics, Department, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Mentored earlier by Abdus Salam, he is known for his discovery of 10-dimensional supergravity and its Yang-Mills coupling, formulation of gravity-mediated breaking of super symmetry and establishing the minimal supersymmetric standard model. He established the Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences at his University, and is currently the Luis Michel Visiting Professor at Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifique and is trying hard to establish a regional research centre in mathematical sciences in the Middle East. He won the 2008 TWAS Prize in Physics.
Elected as Fellow. 3- HASSAN, Rashid M. (Sudan) b.22-2-1953, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Environmental Policy & Director, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. Dr. Hassan has contributed to our understanding of African agriculture by relating land productivity, not only to the local ecology but also to the institutions surrounding the use of land. His research has led to the inclusion of the effects of the depreciation of mineral assets on the national accounts of Namibia and Botswana. Member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, he has won the University of Pretoria’s Academic Achievement Award twice and several other prizes.
Elected as Fellow. for more details please visit: www.twas.org
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