Abdellah, Mohamed

Vice President, University of Alexandria,

Alexandria, Egypt

Mohamed Abdellah, Bachelor of Economics and Political Sciences, University of Alexandria, 1967; Post-graduate Diploma in Economics, Poitiers Universities, France, 197l; Post-graduate diploma in Business Administration, University of Paris, 1972; Doctrate d'Etate (Ph.D) in Economics, Paris University, 1974; Post-graduate diploma in Political Sciences, Political Science Institute. Paris University.

In addition to several programmes and training courses in the United States of America, among which the most important are as follows:

Programme on Tax Development in the developing countries, University of Southern California, 1979; Programme on the Economics and Political System of the USA, part of a Programme on leadership, Washington, 1980; Programme on the Evaluation of Investment Administration Strategies, Harvard University, 1986; Programme on the Stock Exchange in developing countries, Washington, 1994 (for 4 weeks).

Academic History: A lecturer of Public Economics, Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University 1975; Visiting lecturer of Comparative Tax Systems Paris University; Professor of Public Finance and Public Economics, Head of Finance Department, Alexandria University since 1987; Vice-President of the Alexandria University since October 1994; Supervised more than twenty-five Ph.D thesis in Economics and Public Finance.

Political History: Member of Parliament for El-Montazah - Alexandria Governorate, 1979-2000; Head of the Foreign Affairs Commitee at Peoples Assembly from 1980-2000; Secretary of the National Democratic Party for Alexandria Governorate 1978-1981 and from 1983-1985; Member of the General Secretariat of the National Democratic Party since 1981; Head of the Arab Affairs Commitee of the National Democratic Party, 1988-1998; Vice-President of the Middle East Commitee of the Socialist International

Awards and Prizes of Achievement: Legion d'Honneur, from the French Republic; Francophonic Award from President Leopold Singore; Alexandria University Prize of Achievement, 1999.

Aleixo, Lucia Fernandes

Previous Executive Secretary,

National Biosafety Committee of Brazil-CTNBIO,

Brazil

L?cia Fernandes Aleixo

Professional Training:

Degree: Medicine (1979 _ 1985), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (FM-UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Residency: Anesthesiology (1986 _ 1988) Department of Surgery Hospital das Cl?nicas - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Fellowship: Anesthesiology (1991 - 1992) _ Visiting Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,

Title of Project: "Effects of Inhaled Anesthetics in the Immune System"

PhD: Pathology and Immunology (1992 _ 1996), Department of Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Title of Thesis: "HIV-1 Maternal Transmission and Pediatric Disease Occur in the Absence of Detectable Infection in CD14+ Monocytes and in Direct Association with Proviral Copy Number in CD4+ T Lymphocytes"

Post-doctorate: Infectious Diseases (1999 _ 2000), Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

Title of Project: "Generation of an MHC-IgG Fusion Protein for the Detection of Specific CTLs"

Professional Experience: since 02.2001: Manager, Department of Science and Technology - DECIT;

Secretary of Health Policies, Ministry of Health, Brazil

Member of the National Biosafety Committee - representing the Ministry of Health

Member of the Coordinating Commission on Chemical Safety (Brazilian implementing branch / Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety - IFCS) _ representing the Ministry of Health

06.2000 _ 02.2001: Executive Secretary and National Biosafety Committee _ CTNBio

09.97 _ 01.99 Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil; since 12.99: Consultant in Biosafety United Nations Industrial Development Organization _ UNIDO

09.96 _ 08.97: Consultant in HIV/AIDS, National Program of STDs/AIDS, Secretary of Health Policies, Ministry of Health, Brazil

08.96 _ 08.97: Researcher _ "New Doctor" scholarship (CNPq/Brazil), Laboratory of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases _ DIP, College of Medicine _ UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

09.96 _ 07.97 and 01.88 _ 04.91: Anesthesiologist and Hospital das Cl?nicas _ UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

09.88 _ 02.91: General Practitioner,. Tribunal de Contas de Minas Gerais (Accounting Office of the State of Minas Gerais), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

01.88 _ 09.90: Anesthesiologist, Hospital S?o Francisco de Assis, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Ammann, Klaus

Director,

Botanical Garden,

Systematically- Geobotanisches Institute,

University of Bern,

Bern, Switzerland

Klaus Ammann, Born December 6, 1940

Thesis on Vegetation History 1972, summa cum laude; Director of Botanical Garden, University of Bern since 1996; Prof. h.c. University of Bern since 2000

Teaching:Lecturing in Plant Systematics and Evolution, Biogeography; Lectures on Air Pollution Biomonitoring at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Committees, among others:

• Chairman European Group of Plant Specialists, IUCN

• Steering Committee of PLANTA EUROPA

• Member of coordination group European Science Foundation: AIGM, Risk assessment on transgenic crops

• Biosafety Committee of the Government of Switzerland

• GMO Expert Group European Commission Directorate General JRC - IPTS

Research Projects: Chemotaxonomy of macro-lichens, calibrated biomonitoring of air pollution with lichens, molecular systematics with lichens, ecological monitoring, ethnobotany in Jamaica, ecological monitoring in Bulgaria.

Ecological risk assessment of vertical gene flow in Switzerland

2 EU-Projects on Gene Flow and Plant Conservation of Europe:

1. Gene Flow of Brassicaceae in Europe, coordinator Swiss participation

2. Euro+Med, coordinator work packages Atlas Florae Europaeae Helsinki, Finnland, Caryological Data Base Patras, Greece, European Red List and Website on Popularized Flora Europaea Contents, Botanical Garden, University of Bern, a joint venture with IUCN SSC Group European Plants, Planta Europa and the Council of Europe

Badr, Effat A.

Professor Emeritus,

Department. of Genetics

Faculty of Agriculture, Shatby,

Alexandria, Egypt

• Ph. D. Columbia University, USA 1963

• Prof. Of Genetics, Alexandria University 1977 _ 1999

• Chairman, Dept of Genetics, Alexandria University 1991 _ 1994

• Vice President, Egyptian Society of Genetics 1979 _1984, 2001 present

• Chairman of the Permanent scientific Committee of Genetics, Supreme council of Universities, 1995 _ 1998

• Fulbright Award, Genetic Engineering Research, Harvard University, 1984

• Visiting Professor, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) France 1983

• National Award in Agricultural Sciences Egypt 1974

• Medallion of Sciences and Arts, 1st Class, Egypt 1976

• Listed in the Encyclopedia of Egyptian National Figures 1989

• Member of the Task Force Committee on Biotechnology, center for International Development at Harvard University 1999-pesent

• Member of the High Education Sector Committees, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Supreme Council of Universities 1998 _ present

• PI of Several Joint Projects with American and French Universities.

• Chairman of Molecular Biology Unit, University of Alexandria Research Center 1978 - 1984

Carlone, Claudio

Chairman,

Hypothesis,

Milano, Italy

Claudio Carlone was born in Rome in 1952 and currently lives in Milan, where he works as an entrepreneur and consultant.

Carlone received his degree in chemical engineering and biology from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and later did research in the biotechnology sector.

In the 1980s, Carlone launched a career in communications, focusing on the relationship between science, enterprise and society and the role of new technology in development. In 1989 he founded Hypothesis (of which he is still president), an agency devoted to the diffusion of scientific and technological culture and the provision of strategic consulting services in the hi-tech sector for a wide variety of companies and institutions. The company is a partner of the Nuovo Mercato of Borsa Italiana SpA (the Italian stock exchange).

Carlone has chaired or participated in numerous international conferences and congresses and, among his other activities, coordinated the City of Milan's Committee for Science and Technology (CAST), whose members included the Nobel laureates Renato Dulbecco and Carlo Rubbia.

Conway, Gordon

President,

The Rockefeller Foundation,

New York, USA

Gordon Conway was elected the twelfth President of The Rockefeller Foundation in April 1998. He was educated at the Universities of Wales (Bangor), Cambridge, Trinidad and California (Davis). His discipline is agricultural ecology. In the early 1960's, working in Sabah, North Borneo, he became one of the pioneers of integrated pest management. From 1970 to 1986, he was Professor of Environmental Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. During this period he lived and worked in many countries in Asia and the Middle East. He then directed the sustainable agriculture program of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London before becoming Representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992. Prior to joining The Rockefeller Foundation, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chair of the Institute for Development Studies. He has an honorary degree from the Universities of Sussex, Brighton, Wales and the West Indies and an honorary fellow of the Institute of Biology. He has authored Unwelcome Harvest: agriculture and pollution (Earthscan, Island Press), The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for all in the 21st century (Penguin and University Press, Cornell); and Islamophobia: a challenge for us all (The Runnymede Trust).

Crooy, Pierre

President,

European Federation of Biotechnology,

Rixensart, Belgium

Pierre Crooy, Date of Birth December 18th, 1935; Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry), 1961 (Great Distinction), University of Louvain; Joined Smith Kline-RIT in July 1962

1978 Director Bacterial Vaccines R&D; 1981 Director R&D Human Biological Products (Bacteriology + Virology); 1984 Director, Scientific Affairs; President of the Med. Chem. - Division of the Royal Chemical Society (1978-1980)

Member of the "Conseil de la Politique Scientifique" of the Walloon Region (1990-1995)

Founder and ex-president of the "Division de Biotechnologie" of the Royal Chemical Society of Belgium (1986-1987); Vice-President of the Royal Chemical Society of Belgium (1987-1989); President of the Royal Chemical Society of Belgium (1989-1991); President of the Belgian Bioindustries Association (BBA) (1989-1992); Relected 1992-1994 and 1994 - March 1996; Vice President April 1996 - April 2002

Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (National Committee of Chemistry)

(1995- ); Member of the EFB WG's Applied Molecular Genetics and Safety in Biotechnology (1990-1996)
Chairman from 1997; Chairman, European Federation of Biotechnology (01.01.2000-31.12.2001); Founder and Chairman of the FBBS (Belgium Funds for Biotechnology); Member of the Board Directors of Henogen; Member of the Board of Directors of the University Faculty of Agronomic Sciences of Gembloux.

Damir, Mohamed Nasr El-Deen

President,

University of Alexandria,

Alexandria, Egypt

Prof. Dr. Mohammed Nasr El-Deen Damir, is the President of Alexandria University since August 1999.

He graduated with honor degree from Production Engineering Department, Alexandria University in 1963. Since then, he has started his academic career in Alexandria University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Measurement & Quality control in 1968.

He was promoted to the rank of Professor of Production Engineering in 1979.

He acted as a visiting professor in Saudi Arabia and Hungary.

He was the chairman of the Engineering Science Department in Beirut Arab University in Beirut, Lebanon (1987 - 1988). Prof. Damir served as a cultural counselor of Egypt to Morocco (1992-1995).

Dr. Damir was also appointed as the dean of the Faculty of Engineering (1998 - 1999).

He is the President of Alexandria Desalination Studies and Technologies Center (ADST).

Prof. Damir has published many scientific papers in the field of Metrology, Automatic Inspection and Quality Control in international and national journals and conferences.

He served as a consultant and technical advisor to many industrial and academic institutions.

Since 1983 Dr. Damir has been a member in the international scientific committee for professor promotion and also a member in the universities supreme council in Egypt.

Dr. Damir was awarded the Alexandria University award for encourage the Research (1976), State award of Engineering Science Egypt (1982) and also the Decorate of Science and Arts "first class" Egypt (1984).

Dausset, Jean Baptiste Gabriel Joachim

President,

MURS Fondation,

Jean Dausset-Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme

Jean Baptiste Gabriel Joachim Dausset, Director of Laboratories, National Blood Transfusion Centre 1950-1963; Biologiste des Hôpitaux, Paris Municipal Hospitals 1963-1978; Co-Chairman, Institute of Research on Blood Diseases 1963-1968; Director of Research Unit on Immunogenetics of Human Trans-plantation, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale 1968-1984; Founder and President, France-Transplant 1969-1989; Founder and President, France-Bone Marrow Grafts1982-present; Founder and President, Human Polymorphism Study Center 1984-present; Expert in Immunology to the World Health Organization 1992-present

Membership of Academies: 1969-present, Honorary foreign Member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine; 1977-present, Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France;1977-present, Académie de Médecine (Paris);1979-present, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston); 1979-present, Yugoslavian Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected (Zagreb); 1981-present, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, elected (Budapest).

Societies: 1978-1981, French Society of Immunology President; 1971-1982, French Society of Hematology President; 1966-1970, Transplantation Society Secretary;1978-1981, French Society of Transplantation Society President

Awards and Prizes: 1967, Grand Prix des Sciences Chimiques et Naturelles (Académie des Sciences); 1967, Médaille d'Argent du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; 1968, Grand Prix Scientifique de la Ville de Paris; 1969, Prix Cognac-Jay (Académie des Sciences); 1970, Stratton Lecture Award; 1970, Landsteiner Award AABB, San Francisco; 1977, Gairdner Foundation Prize; 1978, Koch Foundation Prize; 1978, Wolf Foundation Prize; 1980, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine; 1987, Honda Prize; 1990, Jimenez Dias Foundation Prize; 1996, Medawar Prize

Decorations: 1981,90, 99, Légion d'Honneur, Commandeur, Grand Officier, Grand Croix; 1977, 87, Ordre National du Mérite, Commandeur, Grand Croix; 1981, Palmes Académiques, Commandeur; 1944, Médaille Ancien Combattant, Officier; 1972, Dutch Red Cross; 1977, Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Couronne, Belgique

de Carvalho, Antonio Paes

Founder and President,

Brazilian Association of Biotechnology Enterprises,

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Antonio Paes de Carvalho, Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1935, obtained his degrees at UFRJ, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (M.D., 1959; Ph.D., 1961; Privat Dozent, 1964; and Full Professor of Biophysics and Physiology at the Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics, 1977).

He has extensive experience in scientific research, with more than 70 publications in the international literature dealing with the biophysics and physiology of heart muscle over a 30 year span. He worked as a Post-Doctoral and Visiting Assistant Professor at State University of New York (Department of Physiology, Downstate Medical Center at Brooklyn, 1961-4).

He later held visiting research and teaching positions at Columbia University (Department of Pharmacology, College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1968 e 1978) and at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Program (Boston, 1979).

In Rio de Janeiro, he was Executive Vice-President for Graduate Studies and Research at UFRJ (1971-2); Member of the Federal Education Council of Brazil (1974-80) and of the Rio de Janeiro State Council of Culture (1980-4); Director of the Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics at UFRJ (1980-5); Member of the National Science and Technology Council (1990-92); Member and President of GEA, the International Advisory Group for the World Bank Loan to the Brazilian Government for PADCT, the Brazilian Support Program for Science and Technology (1990-1996). Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine of Brazil, as well as several Scientific Societies in Brazil and abroad.

He was awarded several prizes and honors, including the Pius XI Gold Medal from the Vatican Academy of Sciences (1979); a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree from the University of Buenos Aires(1996); and the Medal ( Comendador ) of the Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit (1996). Antonio Paes de Carvalho was Founder and President of the first Brazilian Company that dealt with Plant Biotechnology (1985-90). The control of this company was sold in 1986 to AGROCERES SEEDS, now a part of MONSANTO DO BRASIL.

He was also Founder and First President of ABRABI ­ the Brazilian Association of Biotechnology Enterprises (1986-present) and the Vice-President of FELAEB, the Latin American Federation of Industrial Biotechnology Associations.

He led the planning and the setting up of PLO BIO-RIO and of its managing institution, the Bio-Rio Foundation, where he acted first as Secretary General (1988-1997) and then as President (1997-present).

He is Founder and Director of RPL - Rio Partnerships Ltd. (British Virgin Islands) and of AVFS - Participates e Consultoria Ltda (Rio de Janeiro), both of which are small companies dedicated to the planning and to the coordination of financial support to start up companies in Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry. Non-Executive Director of THERAGEM, Inc, a start-up company active in peptide antibiotic development (New Jersey e New York, USA). General Director of EXTRACTA Moléculas Naturais Ltda, a company dedicated to drug discovery from Brazilian Biodiversity (a joint venture with a British Company specialized in this area). In addition to his executive experience in Science and Science-related business and finance, he has obtained an MBA Degree (Executive) at COPPEAD/UFRJ (1997).

 

Desmarescaux, Philippe

Président,

Fondation Scientifique de Lyon et du Sud Est,

Lyon, France

Philippe Desmarescaux, is an engineer of the higher national School of chemistry of Paris and doctor of physical sciences. After three years at CNRS, it enters the Rhône-Poulenc group, where it exerts responsibilities in the field for search, before occupying various operational functions in the sectors of agrochemicals and chemistry. Member of the executive committee since 1980, then general manager since 1992, Philippe DESMARESCAUX is also a supervisor of search and the innovation, as well as industrial functions of the Rhône-Poulenc group, which counts 70 000 paid, including 9 000 researchers. Moreover, Philippe DESMARESCAUX is a chairman of the board of the higher Teacher training school of Lyon, chair scientific Foundation of Lyon and South-east, and administrator of the French Company of chemistry.

Dodds, John

Founder,

Dodds & Associates Law Firm,

Washington DC, USA

John Dodds, Founder Dodds & Associates Law Firm.

Assistant Director General (Research) International Center for Agricultural Research for the Dry Areas.

Assistant Director, Institute of International Agriculture, Michigan State

University.
Managing Director of the Agricultural Biotechnology for Sustainable Productivity Project, Michigan State University.

Head of Genetic Resource Department, International Potato Center.

Experience in Research and research management, including budget preparation, staffing, project development and implementation in both developed and developing countries for 20 years.

BSc. Botany (University of London).

Ph.D. Botany/Biochemistry (University of London).

JD. (Law Degree) Thomas M. Cooley Law School - Michigan.

Membership District of Columbia Bar Association - Washington DC.

Membership Patent Bar - US Patent & Trademark Office - Washington DC

Development of collaborative agreements with multiple research institutions in the areas of plant biotechnology, biodiversity and natural resource management.

Participant in International Agricultural Research Senior Management Development Course.

Fluency in the English and Spanish languages.

Publication of 5 books and over 110 scholarly research publications.

Nadia Makram Ebeid

Minister, State for Environmental Affairs, Egypt

Nadia Makram Ebeid began her career with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the Program Monitoring Unit where she assumed managerial responsibilities for the human resource development program.

In 1977, she joined the academic community at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria for one year where she taught an advanced development communication program.

Upon her return to UNDP in 1997, N.M. Ebeid was appointed Senior Sustainable Development Officer in Charge of the agriculture, water and environment sectors.

In 1992, she assumed the responsibilities of Senior Human Resources and Development Officer with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's Regional Office for the Near East , an international diplomatic position that she continued to hold until July 1997.

During this time, she represented FAO in numerous international and regional conferences and working groups addressing a variety of developmental issues. In her capacity as a UN senior professional, she chaired several regional expert consultations and round tables on the issues of environment, sustainable development and women in agriculture. During that time, she led FAO human resource development efforts in the 36 countries of the Near East region.

In July 1997, Ebeid was appointed as Minister of State for Environmental Affairs becoming the first women to assume this position in the Arab World.

Since then, Ebeid has led official Egyptian delegations and negotiations in bilateral and multilateral environmental agreements.

Ebeid is the Chairperson of the Council for Environment and Development Research, the leading environmental institution in Egypt. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE) and the Chairperson of the 4th Session of the Board of the Regional Organization for the Conservation of the environment of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden (PERSGA).

Within the context of the Egyptian-US partnership, Minister Ebeid is the chairperson of the Subcommittee for Environment and Sustainable Development.

At the regional level, Ebeid is the Vice President of the Executive Bureau of Arab Ministers of Environment. She was also President of the 8th session of the African Ministers Conference for Environment.

Ebeid is the holder of a number of prestigious awards including an award of recognition from the University of California at Berkeley and the World Health organization medal of the World Tobacco Day 2000. She was selected as the Honorary Chairperson of the Arab Center for Environmental Studies and Egypt's Association for Environmental Care. She joined the Environmental Law Institute as an active member and has received official nomination for the Who's Who International Directory.

In acknowledgment of her distinguished role in setting the Egyptian environmental scene and her pioneering efforts to integrate human resource development in national environmental planning and management; coupled with a dedication to raise the profile of environmental issues on political and public agendas, Ebeid was recently selected as a member of the General Secretariat of the National Democratic Party which is presided by H.E. President Hosni Mubarak.

In support of her role in environmental policy and advocacy, she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Occidental University in the US. She was also selected as a member of the Boarding Council of the Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University.

In recognition of her efforts in the field of Environment and Pollution Abatement, her Excellency earned the Award of Distinction of the Board of Trustees of The American University in Cairo, that was presented by her Excellency, Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, Egypt's First Lady.

 

El-Beltagy, Adel

Director General,

The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA),

Aleppo, Syria

Prof. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, is presently the Director General of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) (1995 - present). He graduated from University of Wales, UK. Stress physiology being his area of specialization; major research and development interest: Arid Land Agriculture. Past professional and academic activities include:

Professor, Arid Land Agriculture (ALA), Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo; First Under-Secretary of State for Land Reclamation, Egypt (1987-1991); Director/Board Chairman of Agricultural Research Center, Egypt (1991-1994); Chairman of Executive Board, Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Lands (ACSAD) (1989-1995); Chairman of Scientific Technical Council of the International Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) (1993 - present); Chairman/Secretary General of the International Desert Development Commission (IDDC) (1987 - present); Member of the CGIAR Genetic Resources Policy Committee (1994-1999).

Scientific Societies: British Plant Growth Regulator Group (Founding Member); American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); International Plant Growth Substances Association; Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology; International Society for Horticultural Science; American Society for Horticultural Science; Society for Experimental Biology, UK; Egyptian Society for Horticultural Science; World Water Council (WWC). Prof.Dr. Adel ElBeltagy attended numerous conferences, symposiums and international meetings worldwide.

Author of more than 100 scientific publications in Egyptian and International Journals.

El Dawy, Mohamed

Emeritus Dean,

Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tanta,

Tanta, Egypt

Mohamed El Dawy, Birth Date : November 23rd, 1939.

Qualifications: B. Pharm. 1960, Cairo University, Cairo, A.R.E.; Master in Pharm. Chem., January 1963, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, A.R.E.; PhD in Pharm. Chem., 1967, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, U.S.A

Experience: Teaching and research assistant 1960-1967, Egypt & U.S.A.; Assistant/Associate Professor 1967-1971, Egypt ; Professor, 1975-present; Egypt, Nigeria, Libya ; Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tanta, Tanta, Egypt, March 1977 - Sept. 1982, Emeritus Dean (1999 - present); Visiting Professor , (during the period 1982-1998) Arab, African, European, Asian, N. American countries & Australia ; CEO, DAWY Comprehensive Quality Consultants, DIQC, (A Health Care Consultancy group handling QA of functional foods, Drugs, Cosmetics & Devices); Supervision of (13) MSc and (7) PhD research projects, Research topics in the areas of drug analysis-Analytical Toxicology/Forensic Chemistry-Biochemical analysis and Drug design

Coordination and design of workshops, symposia, training programs and action plans for Reengineering of pharmacy curriculum within the concept of health care team; QA of health care education; Development of Drug Policy as a component of health policy; TQM of health care facilities beyond ISO (9000 & 14000) systems; QA of regulatory health care facilities; Facing the challenges of WTO, GATT/TRIP(s) Impact on Pharmaceuticals; Design and installing of TQM Systems to ISO 9K standards, ISO 14K ; EMS standards and OHS guides/standards; Monitoring of HealthCare Facilities for compliance with US (FDA);EU(EMEA/ CPMP), and global (WHO/ICH) Regulatory Guidelines and current good practices.

Member of the Council, University of Tanta, (1977- 1982) Secretary Committee to restructure the Pharmacy Curriculum in Egypt and introduction of a Clinical Pharmacy Component-Regional Coordinator; Member, International Advisory. Committee, 2nd Int. Conference on Pharmacy Education . Boston, U.S.A. (1980). Coordinator, Academic Section, FIP. Project to establish global criteria for pharmacy education Organizer, Several Egyptian and Pan Arab Symposia and Conferences and Editor of Proceedings of said conferences and symposia. Visiting Professor UTCHS Memphis TN. U.S.A. (Summer 1977, 1999, 2000) Visiting Professor Egyptian. Chinese governments exchange programs April (1981). Member, Organizing Committee, WHO/FDA/DIA Pharm. Conf.

Chairman, National Committee for Pharm. Chem., Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities (1995-1998); Committee in charge of evaluation of candidates applying for promotion to Assoc. Prof. & Professorships of Pharm. Chem. at Egyptian Universities). Auditing compliance with TQMS, EMS, and OHS standards and guides, Auditing current good practices (Manufacturing, Clinical , Laboratory)

El-Deek, Mohamed Ahmed Khalifa

Director,

UNESCO Cairo Office & UNESCO Representative to Egypt, Sudan & Yemen,

Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Mohamed El-Deek, was appointed by the Director General of UNESCO on

July 1, 1999, as Director of the Cairo Office and UNESCO Representative to Egypt, Sudan and Yemen. He succeeded Dr. Adnan Shihab Eldin, who joined the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on March 1, 1999.
Born in May 1942, Dr. El- Deek holds a B.SC. Special Degree in Chemistry, from the Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry, Kiev State University (Former USSR). From 1969 to 1974, Dr. El- Deek was a Lecturer in Chemistry at the Ain- Shams University, Cairo-Egypt. In 1975, he was a Research Associate at the Chemistry Department, Oklahoma State University - United States of America. He returned to the Ain- Shams University in 1976 as an Associate Professor of Chemistry. Dr. El- Deek became a Professor of Chemistry in the same University in 1981.

Dr. El- Deek joined the UNESCO Secretariat as a Programme Specialist in Basic Science at the Regional Office for Science and Technology for the Arab States (ROSTAS) located at the time in Paris.

Since 1 March 1999, Dr. El- Deek has been entrusted with the functions of Acting Director of the Office before his actual re-instatement on July of the same year.

Dr. El- Deek is the author of several articles and publications in the field of Chemistry and is also a member of various scientific societies.

El Kassas, Mohamed

Emeritus Professor,

Botany, Faculty of Science,

University of Cairo,

Cairo, Egypt

Mohamed Kassas, was born July 6, 1921, obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) in 1944 and M.Sc in 1947 from the University of Cairo, and Ph.D. in 1950 from the University of Cambridge (U.K.).

In Egypt, he is member of the Egyptian Academy of Science and the Institute d'Egypte. Internationally, he is Former President (1978-1984) of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), fellow of the Indian National Academy of Science, the World Academy of Art and Science, and member of the Club of Rome. His principal research interests during the last 55 years are in plant ecology, especially in arid lands. He and his students surveyed plant life in the deserts and coastal lands of Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, and contributed to the basic understanding of the ecology of the desert vegetation. He was among the pioneers who warned the world against hazards of Desertification and contributed to the UNESCO Arid Lands Research Program, including the ecological maps of the Mediterranean Basin (1950-1960) and to the scientific preparation for the United Nations Conference on Desertification (1977). He has been on the panel of Senior Advisors to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) between 1973 and 1992. He is on the editorial boards of several international journals in fields of ecology and environmental sciences.

Professor Kassas received the following national honors: The First Order of Sciences and Arts (1959), The Order of the Republic (1978), The First Order of Merit (1981), The State of Science Prize (1982), was appointed member of the Shura Council (second house of the Egyptian Parliament), (1981), and Honorary Doctorate, University of Assiut, Egypt (1994). International honors include: Golden Order for Education (Sudan, 1978), United Nations Prize for Environment (1978), The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) Gold Medal (1978), Commander in the Order of the Golden Ark (the Netherlands, 1981), Honorary Doctorate from the Swedish Agricultural, University in Cairo (1986), IUCN-J.Philip Medal (1991), Commander: the Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star (1998), and the Zayed (UAE) International Prize for Environment (2001).

ElShihy, Osama

Professor,

Plant Biotechnology,

Faculty of Agriculture,

Cairo University,

Osama El-Shihy, B.Sc. Agricultural Sciences (June 1975)from Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt . M.Sc. of Plant Physiology (October 1979) from Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt . Ph.D. of Plant Biotechnology and genetic engineering (April, 1986 ) from Faculty of science, Southampton University, England.

Employment:

Demonstrator (September 1975-October 1979); Plant Physiology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University; Lecturer Assistant (from October 1979- May 1986); Plant Physiology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University; Lecturer (from June 1986-June 1991); Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University; Associate professor of Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University (June 1991-June 1996 ); Professor of Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University (since June 1996 till now); Director of Biotechnology and Bioengineering Lab, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University (since October 1996 till now).

Prof. Dr. Osama El-Shihy had been awarded the prize of Cairo University of Application of Genetic Engineering in Medicine and Agriculture (1996); Attended of 15 conferences in the field of Plant Biotechnology; Membership in 12 national and international scientific societies.

Participation in Research Projects:

Vice principal investigator of project financed by Ministry of Agriculture and USAid (NARP); Use of tissue culture to improve tolerance to salinity of wheat and sorghum (August 1990 -Apri1 1994); Principal investigator and Director of project financed by Ministry of Agriculture and European Group.

Increase of salt tolerance of rice and wheat through genetic engineering technology (Dec. 1994-till now). Dr El Shihy have been acting as a supervisor of 15 postgraduate students; 8 PhD. and 7 for Msc. Students, he was a supervisor of 14 Master thesis and 3 PhD. thesis. All postgraduate students working under his supervision in the field of Biotechnology. Dr El Shihy published about 30 papers in the field of plant Biotechnology.

Flavell, Richard B.

Chief, Scientific Officer,

Ceres Inc.,

California, USA

Dr. Flavell, is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Ceres, Inc.; a California based plant genomic company. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, California, USA, Professor Flavell joined the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, England in 1969, where he subsequently founded the Department of Molecular Genetics and became distinguished for research and leadership in plant molecular genetics. In 1987 he was appointed Director of the John Innes Institute, Norwich, UK and subsequently Director of the John Innes Centre following the merger of the John Innes Institute, the Cambridge Laboratory and the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory in April 1994. Professor Flavell also held the position of Professor of Biology at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK before he moved to California in October 1998.

Dr. Flavell has published over 190 scientific articles, lectured widely and has contributed significantly to the development of modern biotechnology in agriculture and to public understanding of science. He has been involved in many activities of scientific leadership such as associate editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution, editor of Plant Molecular Biology. Environmental and Experimental Botany, BioEssays and The Plant Journal. He co-founded the journal Genes and Development. He has been Vice-President of the Genetical Society of Great Britain, Vice-President and President of International Society Plant Molecular Biology, and is a Fellow of EMBO. He received honorary D.Sc degrees from the University of East Anglia, UK and from the Bulgarian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He was a founding Fellow of Academia Europaea. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1998 and received the CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to plant and microbial sciences in 1999.

Gabr, Mamdouh

Secretary General,

Egyptian Red Crescent,

Cairo, Egypt

Professor Gabr, graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Cairo in 1947, obtained his doctorate in paediatrics in 1951, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, in 1981. Since 1947, he has been a member of Egypt's National Council of Childhood, participating in the development and implementation of national strategies for child health and nutrition, school feeding, measles vaccination and the banning of milk formula advertising. In 1960, Professor Gabr was the first to draw attention to the prevalence of subclinical iodine deficiency in Egypt. As advisor to the Ministry of Health from 1975 to 1978, he conducted training programmes for the primary health care team and organized, with the United States Centers for Disease Control, the first nutrition survey.

Professor Gabr served as Minister of Health from 1978 to 1982, initiating the successful joint WHO/UNICEF/USAID oral rehydration programme, the follow-up to the national nutrition survey in 1980 and the first national study on food consumption. He also planned and implemented rural and urban projects relating to primary health care and the decentralization of health care.

Internationally, Professor Gabr has been a member of several WHO, UNICEF. FAO and United Nations University advisory committees on child health and nutrition. He also served as President of the International Union of Nutrition Sciences, fostering closer relations with the United Nations, as President of the International Paediatric Association, and as Chairman of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Health Research. He is currently Chairman of the International Nutrition Forum — a nongovernmental organization promoting better nutrition in developing countries. Between 1991 and 1994, he was closely involved in numerous activities in the fields of nutrition and child health, and public health, in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Professor Mamdouh Kamal Gabr is currently Secretary-General of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society and, since 1985, Chairman of the Consultative Committee of WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region.

Gadsden, James Irvin

Special Negotiator for Biotechnology

United States Embassy, Economic/Political Section,

United States Department of State,

USA

James Irvin Gadsden, who joined the career Foreign Service in 1972, has served as Special Negotiator for Agricultural Biotechnology in the State Department's Bureau for Economic and Business Affairs since September 2001. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Gadsden was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1997 to 2001. In that position, he was responsible for U.S. bilateral relations with several European countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Vatican, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, And Estonia. Previously, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest (1994-97), Counselor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Paris (1989-93), economic/political officer at the U.S. Mission to the European Communities in Brussels (1985-89), and European Communities desk officer at the State Department (1981-84).

Mr. Gadsden began his Foreign Service Career in the State Department's Office of East Asian Regional Affairs as a political officer (1972-74). He was next assigned to the U.S. Trade Center in Taipei as a market research officer supporting U.S. export promotion programs (1974-76). Mr. Gadsden continued promoting U.S. exports as a commercial officer at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest (1977-79). He was then assigned as a staff assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs (1980-81).

Mr. Gadsden was born in Charleston, South Carolina on March 12, 1948. He earned a B.A. Degree cum laude in economics from Harvard University in 1970 and an M.A. degree in East Asian Studies (China) from Stanford University in 1972. He continued graduate studies in economics at Princeton University in 1984. He was selected for participation in the Senior Seminar in 1993 and has received senior performance awards, a meritorious honor award, and a group superior honor award. Mr. Gadsden speaks French, Mandarin Chinese, and Hungarian.

Mr. Gadsden is married to Sally Freeman Gadsden. They have two sons: James Jeremy (21) and Jonathan Joel (17).

Gardiner, Peter Richard

Deputy Director-General Programs, ICLARM,

Malaysia

Peter Richard Gardiner, B.Sc Zoology (First Class Honours) University College London, UK, awarded 1974; Ph.D. Protozoology University College London UK, awarded 1978

Current Position (1996-present)

Deputy Director General-Programs, International Centre for Living ; Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), Penang, Malaysia

Peter Gardiner originally specialised in research on the cultivation, development and antigenicity of protozoan parasites affecting man and animals (principally Leishmania and African trypanosomes) and has more than 30 research publications in this area. Whilst with ILRAD, the forerunner of ILRI, a research centre of the CGIAR, he became involved with the planning and conduct of livestock science more broadly. In 1996 he turned to apply his zoology background and experience in research management to fisheries and aquatic systems. At ICLARM he has general responsibility for the planning, oversight and reporting of their scientific program which encompasses both biophysical and socioeconomic research on aquaculture, coral reef conservation and use, and fisheries management in developing countries. One particular interest is in the growing application of genetic methods in the development of aquaculture, and the issues this raises for countries at different states of development.

*Note: The paper is presented by Mr. George John.

Gezairy, Hussein A.

Regional Director,

World Health Organization,

Regional Office for the Eastern Meditteranean,

Cairo, Egypt

Upon his nomination by the Regional Committee in its thirtieth Session (1981), Dr.. Hussein Abdul Razzak Gezairy was first appointed by the Executive Board at its Sixty-ninth Session as from 1 September 1982, and assumed duties of WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1982.

In January 1987, the Executive Board reappointed Dr. Hussein Gezairy for another term of five years, and in January 1992 the Executive Board reappointed him for a third term of five years from 1 October 1992. The Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean which met in October 1996, nominated Dr. Gezairy for a fourth term of five years beginning from 1 October 1997. The 48th session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediteranean which met in October 2001, nominated Dr. Gezairy for a fifth term of five years beginning from 1 October 2002, and the 109th session of the Executive Board in January 2002 confirmed his reappointment.

Born in Makkah in 1934, Dr. Gezairy graduated in Medicine in 1957 at the Kasr El Aini Faculty of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt, where he also obtained his diploma in general surgery in 1960. He then joined the staff of the University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following which he undertook postgraduate studies in surgery in London, obtaining the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1965. He was Founding Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Riyadh in 1969. In October 1975, Dr. Gezairy became Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a post which he held until his appointment as WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean.

Dr. Gezairy is a founder and promoter of medical studies in Saudi Arabia and a member of academic and medical societies in the Arab World.

He was the first President of the Supreme Council of the Arab Board for Medical Specializations.

Decorations. Honorary Degrees and medals include:

1. King Abdul-Aziz decoration, Grade II: Granted by His Majesty King Khaled Bin Abdul Aziz in 1975.

2. Leopold II Medal (the Grand Ornament): Granted by His Majesty the King of Belgium in 1975

3. State Knight Decoration, Grade II, granted by His Majesty Sultan Haj Ahmad: Shah, King of Malaysia in 1982.

4. Independence Decoration Grade I: Granted by His Majesty King Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (December 1990)

5. The Lebanese Health, Golden Medal for Merit, Grade I, awarded to him by His Excellency the President of Lebanon in December 1993.

6. The First Grade TWO-NILES Medal, awarded to him by H.E. General Omar El Bashir, President of Sudan in June 1997.

7. Honorary Doctorate from Gezira University of Sudan in February 1994.

8. Honorary Ph.D degree in Surgery from Shendi University of Sudan in June 1997.

9. Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Khartoum University of Sudan, Khartoum in February 2000.

10. The Lebanese Medal of Merit, First Rank, awarded by His Excellency Mr Emil Lahoud, President of Lebanon in January 2001.

11. Honorary Degree of Doctorate of Sciences (D.Sc.) from Baqai Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan, February 2001.

Honorary Fellowships/Scientific Memberships

• Honorary Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Karachi, Pakistan

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Organization of Medical Sciences

• Member of the Higher Steering Committee of the Pan Arab Project for Child Development

• Member of Madinat-al-Hikmat Councils and Committees in Karachi, Pakistan

• Member and first president of the Supreme Council of Arab Board of Medical Specializations (CABMS).

• Honorary Fellowship of the Sudanese Council for Medical Specializations, as a founder of this board.

• Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom, Glasgow, June 2001.

 

Ghaleb, Haidar Abbass

Professor Emeritus,

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics,

Faculty of Medical, Cairo University,

Cairo, Egypt

Haidar Abbass Ghaleb, Place & date of birth: Cairo, Egypt, July 18th, 1929; M.B., B.Ch.& D.Med.Sc. (Ain Shams), Ph.D. (London), M.Sc. Paed. (Cairo).

Academic Positions: Emeritus Professor of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University.; Consultant Pediatrics (Private practice); General Secretary, Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities Med. Sector; Chairman of the Egyptian Society of Medical Ethics; Vice President (Postgraduate, Development and Research), University of Menoufia, Egypt (1987 to 1990); Founding Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Menoufia, Egypt (1984 to 1987).; Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University (1974 to 1984).

National and International Positions: WHO consultant; Consultant to the national pharmaceutical Industries; Chancellor for the Egyptian Ministry of Health (1992-1995); Chairman of the Egyptian Drug Registration and Safety Committee, Ministry of Health (From 1978 to 1982); Member of the Academy of Sciences in Cairo, Egypt; Member of the board of the AMEEMR, World Federation for Medical Education; Member of the International Society of Cytokines & Interferon.

Patencies and Prizes: Have two Patencies on the discovery of a new drug "Halphabarol" (Proximol) for ureteric stones propulsion (Egypt in 1972). Won The International Prize of Geneva Patency Organization "GOLD MEDAL" for the discovery of PROXIMOL and its application in therapy for 10 years in 1984, Patency on the discovery of a new method for isolation of natural Human leukocytic Alfa Interferons from the European Union in 1998. Produced in market under the name of ISMAFERON ®, ACAPI -Egypt.

Publications: Over 100 publications in Egyptian and International Medical Journals; Published seven monographs on different aspects of pharmacology and clinical pharmacology; Supervised over 50 Doctorate Degree in Medicine and over 40 Master Degrees.

Gopo, Joseph Muchabaiwa

Advisor,

Biotechnology & Biosafety,

Commonwealth Secretariat,

Ministry of Higher Education,

Gopo, Joseph Muchabaiwa , Date of Birth: 15 September 1941, Zimbabwean; BSc Southwest Baptist College Bolivar: MO. USA, 1965-1968, Biology and Chemistry; MSc Reproductive Physiology Degree, East Texas States University, USA, 1972; PhD Molecular Genetics, Virology and Biotechnology, West Virginia University, USA, 1975; Post Doctoral Fellow, Jacques Monod Institute Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Dr G Bernardi 1985-1986, Paris France - Development of a Salmonella Specific DNA Probe for Detection and Enumeration of Salmonella in Food-Drink and Factory Environments; Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Maryland, Frostburg State University, 1990- 1991. ; Appointed Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland System 1990-1995.. The main task was to develop a research programme for application in DNA Fingerprinting of Fish-Species Identification-USAID-Funded Project; Post Doctoral Fellow, 1994 - 1995, University of the North, South Africa (SA), Funded by the Foundation for Research and Development (FRD)to Assist in Developing a programme on Biotechnology in Biochemistry and Microbiology Departments. Appointed Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry and Microbiology Departments, 1994-1995.

Experience: Science School Teacher, Baptist Mission of Zimbabwe, 1968-1970. Sanyati Secondary School; Research Assistant: West Virginia University Morgentown, Biology Department USA, 1972 - 1975. Research on Plant Viruses of Economic Importance in Agriculture; Research Assistant, West Virginia University, Department of E.N.T, Virology Medical School, Cancer Research 1973-1975. Development of Antigens for Early Diagnostics and Detection of -Carcinomas of the Lung; Lecturer Molecular Biology, University of Zambia, 1975-1977. Department of Biological Sciences; Lecturer Molecular Genetics and Molecular Virology, University of Rhodesia, Biochemistry Department, 1977-1980; Senior Lecturer, Molecular Genetics/Biotechnology Biological Sciences, 1981-1995.

Administrative Experience: Chairman, Department of Biological Sciences, U.Z. 1986-1991; Coordinator Sub-Regional ARPPIS-UZ MSc. Degree Programme, Entomology 1987-1993, Coordinated by the ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya; Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Zimbabwe, 1991-1994;Coordinator MSc. Biotechnology Degree Programme, U.Z. 1993-1994; Director, Biotechnology Research Institute, 1995-present; Author of more than 36 Scientific papers published in proceedings and in refereed journals in Molecular Virology, Molecular Genetics, Biotechnology, DNA Probes-etc.; Holder and Sole owner of an ARIPO and Zimbabwe Patenis on a Salmonella specific DNA Probe.; Participant and convener of numerous International Sym

posia, Training Workshops and Scientific Meetings.; Consultant: IDRC, OAU, IGIPE, ARA - Techtop.; Consultant IGIPE 1989

To Investigate the Possibility of Establishing the ICIPE Graduate School, PhD. Programme: Visit to IVic - Venezuela: Feb. 13-21, 1989; Consultant IDRC 1990; Identification of a Network of Potential Biotechnology Centres in West and Central African Countries; Senegal, Ivory Cost, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo and Zaire, Jan. 17-Feb. 1" 1990.; Consultant OAU, 1992 ; Inter-Africa Phytosanitary Council, Yaounde, Cameroon: to Investigate and Report on the State of phytosanitation and Quarantine Services and the State of Micropropagation in Zambia and Mozambique: June 1992.; Consultant ARA-Techtop; AR-Techtop; 1992, A Harare based Consultancy company to carry out an environmental impact assessment for the proposed Kudu Dam on Munyati River, Zimbabwe. August 17-Spt. 16, 1992; ARA Techtop - 1993-Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed Kunzi Dam for Potable Water to Harare. Oct. 1993.

 

Haerlin, Benedikt

Strategic Advisor,

Greenpeace,

Berlin, Germany

Benedikt Haerlin, Campaigner and journalist. International coordinator of Greenpeace International Genetic Engineering Campaign until September 2001. Now Strategic advisor to Greenpeace on the issue. Previously Toxics Coordinator Greenfreeze Campaigner and magazine editor of Greenpeace Germany. Before joining Greenpeace served (1984/89) as member of the European Parliament (Green Party, Germany), where he specialized in genetic engineering issues. Founder of the Gen-ethic Network in Germany in 1987. Previous to that worked as journalist in Berlin for `Die Tageszeitung' and other media, published books and essays in various magazines in Tubingen and Berlin. Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1957.

Herrling, Paul

Head of Research,

Novartis Pharma AG,

Basel, Switzerland

Dr. Herrling, was born in Alexandria (1946), Egypt, from Swiss parents.

On January 1st 1994 Dr. Herrling was promoted to Head of Corporate Research, including the research centers in Switzerland, Vienna, London and the USA as well as the responsibility for all major external scientific collaborations, e.g. Scripps Research Institute, Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla; Dana Farber Institute in Harvard; Genetic Therapy Inc. (Gaithersburg), Biotransplant (Charlestown); Imutran (Cambridge) and Systemix (Palo Alto) to name a few of the major ones. Dr. Herrling was part of the Sandoz Pharma Executive Committee and a member of the Systemix Board. In May 1996, Dr. Herrling was designated Head of Research for Novartis Pharma and became a member of its executive board.

During the year after the merger, Dr. Herrling integrated both (Ciba's and Sandoz') research organization and changed them from predominantly geographically oriented research centers into a global organization of seven therapeutic areas and a core technology group. Additionally three biotech research groups have been included: Imutran (Cambridge) addressing xenotransplantation, GTI (Gaithersburg) as center of excellence for gene delivery and gene therapy and Systemix (Palo Alto) for stem cell therapy. Some of the major projects implemented were the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics in La Jolla and the recruitment of its Director, Prof. Peter Schultz; the in-house Functional Genomics Unit under Prof. D. Cohen; the establishment at Novartis Pharma of the new technologies of combinatorial chemistry, the EVOTEC technology for ultra-high throughput miniaturized screening.

Dr. Herrling was also one of the initiator of the SNP Consortium joining 10 major Pharma companies, the Wellcome Trust, Motorola and IBM in an effort to map a large number of SNPs and make them available in the public domain.

To support Novartis' efforts in genomics Dr. Herrling established major collaborations with Celera, Incyte, Rigel, Vertex and Geneva Proteomics. Swiss University projects established in the last two years were: the establishment of an 800 MHz NMR facility at the Biocenter in collaboration with Roche and the University of Basel; support for the establishment of a Chair for Pharmacology at the University of Basel and support for a Chair for Bioinformatics also at the University of Basel; a major collaboration in the Neurosciences at the ETH and University of Zurich; a collaboration with the University of Lausanne in the field of Schizophrenia Research. Major Scientific Board positions: Co-Chair TSRI-Novartis Joint Scientific Council, LaJolla Director of the Board of the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, La Jolla Board of Directors, Chiron, Emeryville Board of Trustees Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel Board of Trustees Novartis Foundation, London Scientific Advisory Board to the Director of NIH, 1999 Scientific Advisory Board, Equit4Life, Biotech VC Fund.

Hoban, Thomas

Professor,

College of Agriculture & Life Sciences,

North California State University,

California, USA

Dr. Thomas J Hoban, is a professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University. He is a member of both the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Food Science. His work focuses on how people and organizations respond to change. He helps organizations understand social trends and anticipate the future.

For the past ten years, he has focused on how American agriculture, the food industry and others can most effectively respond to the important issues related to biotechnology. His research on public perceptions of biotechnology is widely used and cited by groups from around the world. His work has also examined the factors that influence industry adoption of other new technologies, including computer systems. He is currently conducting an extensive research project that examines what global leaders think and know about biotechnology.

Dr. Hoban has helped a number of organizations understand and respond to public concerns about new technology and social change. His research has had significant impacts on government policies and industry strategies for managing biotechnology issues. During the past decade, he has given over 300 invited presentations on a range of topics. He has been interviewed over 200 times by the media. He is a member of the USDA's Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology and recently served on the FDA's biotechnology labeling panel.

Dr. Hoban received his Ph.D. in Rural Sociology from Iowa State University in 1986. He has two Masters degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Agricultural Journalism and Water Resource Management. He received a B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Illinois.

Idris, Mohamed A.H.

President, CACU

Chairman, IFAP Egyptian CTT,

Cairo, Egypt

Mohamed A.H. Idris, Birth Place: Suhag, Upper Egypt, 06 08 1931

Marital Status: Married

Education: B. Com. 1953, Cairo

Position: Secretary General, CACU 1971-1976/1983 -1993; President, CACU 1993 - onwards; Chairman, IFAP Egyptian CTT. 1982-onwards

Regional: Secretary General, PAN-ARAB Agriculture Cooperation Union1971-1978; Chairman, African Regional CTT. 1984-onwards.

Memberships: Member of IFAP Executive 1973-1976; 1984 Onwards; IFAP Vice President, 1988-1994 Vice Chairman, ICA International Agriculture Organization; 1984-onwards

Languages: Arabic, Mastering; English, Fluent; French, Fair

Conferences: Over 250 Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Meetings at all Levels.

Awards: High Order, Arab Republic of Egypt, Agriculture Gold Medal

Jaffe, Gregory

Co-Director,

Biotechnology Project,

Center for Science in the Public Interest,

Washington DC, USA

Gregory Jaffe earned his BA with High Honors from Wesleyan University in Biology and then received a degree from Harvard Law School. He first worked as a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice's Environmental and Natural Resources Division for seven years. He moved on to become Senior Counsel with the U.S. EPA, Air Enforcement Division, before joining CSPI to co-direct the Biotechnology project. Jaffe's interest in biotechnology began early in his career when he wrote a law review article on regulatory issues surrounding biotechnology and genetically modified organisms. In the early 1990s, while at the Department of Justice, he advised the Assistant Attorney General on biotechnology issues and worked with a federal interagency committee addressing biotechnology policy. At EPA he was awarded a bronze medal for commendable service, a special achievement award, and a gold medal for performance. Over the last decade, he has been a strong advocate for federal positions in federal court and frequently has spoken publicly on behalf of EPA. He is currently a member of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology's Stakeholders' Forum and the University of Pennsylvania Bioethics Center's GMO Consumer Values Panel. He recently has published articles on agricultural biotechnology in the Christian Science Monitor and the Food and Drug Law Institute's Update magazine.

Johnson, Brian

Head,

Biotechnology Advisory Unit

c/o English Nature,

Taunton, UK

Dr. Brian Johnson, is senior advisor on biotechnology to the British statutory nature conservation agencies and is head of the Biotechnology Advisory Unit at English Nature, the government's advisors on nature conservation.

He has been closely involved in the debate on potential effects of GMOs on biodiversity and other aspects of the environment. After pursuing academic research in population genetics and ecology, he has spent the last 18 years in nature conservation.

He has written numerous articles in the scientific and popular press about conservation and the impact of biotechnology on the environment.

Dr. Johnson sits on several UK advisory committees concerned with regulating the release of GMOs into the environment.

Johnston, Donald J.

Secretary General,

The Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD),

Paris, France

Donald J. Johnston, the Secretary-General of the OECD since 1996, was a lawyer and former Cabinet Minister of the Government of Canada. First elected to Parliament to represent the riding of St. Henri-Westmount in Montreal, Quebec, in the House of Commons in 1978, he was re-elected in May 1979, February 1980 and September 1984. Because of policy differences with his Party on the Constitution and Free Trade, he decided not to run again in the 1988 elections and returned to private practice in Montreal.

He held several senior economic posts in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. He was President of the Treasury Board from March 1980 until September 1982. He was then sworn in as Minister for Economic Development and Minister of State for Science and Technology and appointed Minister of State for Economic Development and Technology in December 1983.

In June 1984, Mr. Johnston was a major contender to become leader of the Liberal Party. The new leader, Prime Minister John Turner, acknowledged his strong showing in that campaign by appointing him Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. After the Liberal Party was defeated in the September 1984 election and became the official Opposition, Mr. Johnston served as its critic for finance and budgetary matters and later, for foreign affairs.

While serving as the minister responsible for science and technology, Mr. Johnston oversaw Canada's space programme, including the selection of Canada's first astronaut, and directed negotiations with NASA and the European Space Agency. He also designed and hosted Canada's first major International Science and Technology Conference, "Canada Tomorrow".

As foreign affairs critic, Mr. Johnston immersed himself actively in all areas of foreign policy, participating in the Conference on Human Rights in Vienna and meeting regularly with representatives of foreign governments.

A strong believer in trade liberalisation, Mr. Johnston supported the Canada - U.S. Free Trade Agreement in a vote in the House of Commons against his Party's position on the issue in 1988. Despite these differences with the Party leadership, Mr. Johnston was elected President of the Liberal Party of Canada by the membership of the Party in 1990. He was re-elected in 1992.

Mr. Johnston received his Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees from McGill University. He was recipient of numerous academic distinctions and prizes, including the Gold Medal of the Faculty of Law, McGill University and Honorary Doctorate from the University of King's College. Mr. Johnston also studied at the University of Grenoble, in France.

In 1961, he joined the international law firm of Stikeman, Elliott and, subsequently, founded his own law firm, Johnston, Heenan and Blaikie, where he was senior partner until his election to Parliament. He also taught courses on the law of taxation at McGill University from 1963 to 1976.

He is the author of a number of professional papers and articles on taxation, economics, law and public affairs, and wrote a book on the Canadian taxation system "How to Survive Canada's Tax Chaos" first published in 1974.

Twelve years later in 1986, Mr. Johnston published his political memoirs of the Trudeau years, entitled: "Up the Hill". The book assessed the economic and social problems facing Canada, and also outlined his own concrete proposals for positioning the country to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Later he collaborated with former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and published two further books: "With a Bang, not a Whimper: Pierre Trudeau speaks out" (1988) and "Lac Meech, Trudeau parle" (1989).

Mr. Johnston was born in 1936. He is married to Heather Bell Maclaren. They have four daughters, Kristina, Allison, Rachel and Sara.

 

KEARNS, PETER W.E.

Principal Administrator,

Environment Directorate OECD

Paris, France

Peter Kearns is a Principal Administrator at the OECD where he has worked on biotechnology issues since early 1991. He is responsible for the OECD's Working Group for the Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology and the Task Force for the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds. The Working Group deals with issues related to the environmental safety of GMOs; while the Task Force covers issues relevant to food safety. Both these groups comprise individuals nominated by the governments of the OECD Member countries.

Peter has a BSc in Genetics from the University of Nottingham and a PhD in Population Genetics from the University of Cambridge, where he is a member of Darwin College. After a period of postdoctoral work at the Department of Genetics, Cambridge, he went to work at the UK Government Department of the Environment, where he was responsible for activities to regulate GMOs.

During his time at the OECD, he has focused on promoting international harmonisation in the regulation of biotechnology.

Leisinger, Klaus M.

Executive Director,

Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development,

Basel, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, born 1947 in Lorrach, Germany, studied economics and social sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His post-doc studies include field and desk research on "Health Policy for Least Developed Countries", population policy and international business ethics. His professional career include a four year term as CEO of the former Ciba Pharmaceuticals regional office in East-Africa as well as different responsibilities in the context of the company´s "International Relations". Since July 1, 1990, Klaus M. Leisinger is Executive Director and Delegate of the Board of Trustees of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development.

In addition to his position at Novartis, he serves as a Professor of development sociology at the University of Basel. His areas of research and teaching include Sustainable Development; Population Policy; Food Security; Health Policy; Business Ethics and Globalization. Dr. Leisinger served as invited lecturer at the several Swiss and German universities as well as at Georgetown University (Washington D.C.) and Harvard University. He is member of European Academy of Science and Art.

As a board member Klaus M. Leisinger has advisory functions in different national and international organizations dealing with sustainable development issues: Examples are the United Nations Development Programm (UNDP), the Bretton Woods Commission of the Committee for International Development Cooperation of the Swiss Federal Council, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (Cimmyt, Mexico, D.F.) and the Population Reference Bureau (Washington D.C.). Other affiliations include: Member of the international review panel for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR); member of the Board of Trustees of the German Network Business Ethics (Deutsches Netzwerk Wirtschaftsethik), German Overseas Institute and the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Research on Politics and Society.

Madkour, Magdy Ahmed

Director,

Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI),

Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Madkour, received a B.Sc. degree (1969), an M.Sc. in Plant Pathology in 1972 from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and a Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Wales, UK.

Prof. Madkour was a faculty member at Alexandria University from 1969-1996. He was also a visiting Professor at the University of California at Davis, USA.

He is presently the Director of the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI) in Egypt beside his position as Vice-Dean at the Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain Shams University, Egypt.

Magnus, David

Graduate Studies Director and Bioethics Professor,

Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, USA

David Magnus, PhD is currently the Graduate Studies Director and bioethics professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in philosophy from Stanford University and has published articles on the history and philosophy of biology and bioethics, particularly on issues concerning genetic technology. Recent publications include "What is Immoral about eugenics?", "Disease Gene Patenting: A Dilemma for Clinicians", "Cloning and the Regulative Dilemma", and "Ethical Issues in the Move from Genome to Therapy." He directed a 1996 summer Institute for College and University faculty on "Scientific, Ethical, and Social Challenges of Contemporary Genetic Technology". He received grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Scott Charitable Trust to develop a collection of essays to be entitled Who Owns Life? which is forthcoming with Prometheus Press. He serves as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics and as an Editorial Advisor for the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. He directs the Center for Bioethics project on the Ethics of Genetically Modified Foods, and works with the producers of ER on a project on the ethical issues associated with the show. He has acted as a consultant for the National Conference of State Legislators and an expert consultant for the World Bank. He has worked with public policy making bodies as well as corporations. He has appeared on many television shows including Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and FOX news Sunday, several nationally syndicated radio shows and has been quoted in Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today among other publications. In addition to his scholarly work, he has published a number of editorial pieces in prominent newspapers.

Mahfouz, Mahmoud

Emeritus Professor,

Radiation Oncology & Nuclear Medicine,

Cairo University,

Cairo, Egypt

M.M. Mahfous was born in 1923 in Assiut.

Awards & Medals of Merit: Order of the Republic of the First-Degree, 1974, Egypt; Legion of Honour Chevalier, 1978, France; State Merit Prize for Medical and Biological Sciences, 1995, Egypt; Order of Arts & Sciences, 1995, Egypt.

Present Status: EM. Prof. of Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Cairo University; Chairman of the Committee on Education, Scientific Research and Youth; Egyptian Senate; Vice-Chairman of the Medical Research Council.

Academy of Science & Technology: Chairman of the Committee on Medical Education, The Supreme Council of Universities; Chairman of the Egyptian Soc. of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine; Member of the Board of the Cairo University Institute of Oriental Studies; Board Member of the Egyptian Atomic Energy Establishment; Egyptian Nuclear Power Establishment and Faculties of Medicine of Cairo, Suez Canal and Assiut Universities

Official Post: Minister of Health (1972/74 The October War); Chairman of the Radiology Department, Cairo University 1980/83; Chairman of the Red Crescent Soc. 1972/78; Director of KASR EL-EINY Center of Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Cairo University 1977/83; Medical Advisor to the Egyptian Atomic Energy Establishment 1962/68; Chairman of the Radiation Science and Technology Council, The Egyptian Academy of Science 1917/81; Chairman of the Data Processing Medical Applications; Medical Applications Committee, Institute of Statistics and Data Processing, Cairo University 1975/79; Board Member of the Faculties of Medicine of Menofia and Al-Azhar Universities; Member of the WHO; Research Coordinator of European Community Electron Microscopy Regional Training Center; Brachytherapy of Cancer of the Cervix in Developing Countries Project; Vector Borne Regional Research Center Ein-Shams University

Public Activities: Chairman of the Egyptian Chapter of the IPPWN (Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War); Egyptian Chapter of the PUGWASH Movement, Science and International Affairs; Afican Soc. of Egypt; Egyptian Soc. For Dissemination of Knowledge and Culture. " ESDOCK "; National Coordinator for the First International Conference for Disaster Preparedness Dec. 93. in Collaboration with WHO & XCDO

Mayor, Federico

Fundaction Ramon Areces

Prof. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, was born in Barcelona and studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he got his PhD on Biochemistry. He was appointed Professor at the University of Granada before he turned 30, where he became Rector a few years later. He then moved back to Madrid to direct the Department of Biochemistry at the Universidad Autonoma, where he was also co-founder of the Centro de Biologia Molecular. This Institute was the ferment of Molecular Biology in Spain and was the cradle of several generations of biologists. He was considered an outstanding teacher.

Federico Mayor's research on brain metabolism and prenatal biochemistry, stimulated by his stay in the lab of Hans Krebs at Oxford, had not only international recognition but also a high social impact. He promoted a plan for the prevention of mental retardation that was applied nationwide, having saved and improved the lives of thousands of children.

The second aspect of his biography is his committed involvement in politics. He held positions of high responsibility in the first governments that paved the way for reinstauration of democracy in Spain in the late 70s. He was Minister of Science and Education, member of the Parliament and Chair of the Parliamentary Commission for Education and Science. He was also member of the European Parliament.

For the last twelve years, until late last year, he was Director General of UNESCO, where, among other important contributions, he advocated education in underdeveloped countries as the most effective way to address the problems of poverty, overpopulation and disease. One of his last initiatives at UNESCO was the organization of a World Conference on Science that brought to light the need for a new dialogue between scientists and society and the need to promote science as a global enterprise.

Moharram, Hisham N.

Professor,

Natural Products Biotechnology Group,

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology Research Institute (GEBRI),

Mubarak City for Scientific Research,

New Borg El Arab City, Alexandria, Egypt

Hisham N. Moharram

Nationality: Egyptian American

Place and Date of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt. December 8, 1961

Education: B.Sc. Iowa State University, M.Sc. University of Arizona, Ph.D. Texas A&M University

Work Experience: Postdoctoral Associate, Texas A&M University, 1996-1998,.Research Scientist, AGERI-ARC, 1998-1999, Research Group Leader, GEBRI, Mubarak City for Scientific Research, 1999 to present.

Research Focus: Metabolic engineering / genetic manipulation of medicinal and aromatic plants to effect customized natural product biosynthesis and increased abiotic stress tolerance.

Mokhtar, Gamal

President,

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT),

Alexandria, Egypt

Gamal Eldin Ahmed Mokhtar; Date of Birth: 29 October 1928, Cairo - Egypt; Marital Status:Married ( Two children )

Education

B.Sc, Naval Academy, Alexandria:1946-1949; Master Mariner, Ministry

of Maritime Transport:1955.

M.Sc, U.S.S.R:1959-1960; M.A, (Business Administration): American University in Cairo, AUC:1969-1972 ; Ph.D, (EconomicDevelopment):Sorbonne University-Paris Premier; Economics of Human Development:1978

Career

Member of State National Specialized Councils, 1996; Member of the Board of Governors of the World Maritime University, Sweden; President of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt, 1990; Member of the Executive Council of the World Maritime University; Member, Board of Trustees, Alexandria University, 1987; Member of the American university in Cairo ( AUC ) International Alumni, a Committee headed by Mrs. Mubarak

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Commerce (Business Administration Department), Alexandria University, 1978; Chairman of Technical Co-operation Committee of the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations ; Director of Arab Maritime Transport Academy, 1972; Chief Inspector of the Egyptian Navy, 1969; Director of Egyptian Naval Training, 1968; Director of Egyptian Naval Academy, 1967; Chief of Studies of Naval Academy, 1966; Chief of Staff of Submarines, 1960

Mooney, Pat Roy

Executive Director,

Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI),

Canada

Pat Mooney, born in 1947, has spent most of his life on the Canadian prairies and in agricultural development work in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In the mid-1970s he became increasingly concerned about the loss of agricultural genetic resources and in 1979 he published a report on the subject, Seeds of the Earth, widely credited as being the first analysis to draw international attention to the problem. This was followed in 1983 by his study The Law of the Seed: Another Development and Plant Genetic Resources, which attracted wide notice.

Fowler and Mooney began to work together in 1975. As international advocates for genetic conservation they have initiated worldwide educational compaigns and proposed far-reaching conservation programmes. One of their proposals was for the establishment of international seed banks, a plan which was adopted by the UN in 1983. From 1978, Fowler and Mooney joined forces with the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), a small, non-profit organisation which focuses on the socio-economic impact of new technologies on rural societies. Mooney later became the Foundation's executive director. Through RAFI they played a major role in the formulation of the Commission and Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In 1993, the FAO hired Fowler to help draft their Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources; he then stayed on to organise the international conference in Leipzig, Germany, in 1996, at which the Global Plan was adopted.

At the same time, RAFI has organised numerous workshops in Africa, Asia and Latin America to address both global issues and the need for local farmers to secure their own crop genetic diversity. In 1988, Mooney led a research team with Fowler and others to produce The Laws of Life: Another Development and the New Biotechnologies, published as a special issue of the Dag Hammarskjld Foundation's Development Dialogue. This work led RAFI to research into international agricultural research institutions and, more recently, into the attempts by private corporations to patent life forms including human cell lines. In one important victory for the campaign to prevent commercialisation of life forms, the European Parliament in 1995 rejected a proposed law that would have permitted the patenting of human genes.

Mostageer, Ahmed

Emeritus Professor,

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Cairo,

Cairo, Egypt

Ahmed Mostageer, born in 1947; B.Sc., Fac. Agric., Cairo University, 1954; M.Sc. Fac. Agric., Cairo University, 1958; Dipl. Genetics, Edinburgh University, 1961; Ph. D., Edinburgh University, 1963; Lecturer, Fac. Agric., Cairo University, 1964; Ass. Prof., Fac. Agric., Cairo University, 1971; Professor, Fac. Agric., Cairo University, 1974; Dean, Fac. Agric., Cairo Univ., 1986-1995; Emeritus Prof. , Fac. Agric., Cairo Univ. since 1995.

State Rewards: State reward of Merit, 1996; State reward of scientific innovation, 1995; State reward of Agric. Sic., 1974; Rewards of the Annual Book Fair: 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000

Membership of Societies & Committees: Member of the Board of the Academy of Arabic Language; Member of the Egyptian Writer's Union; Member of the Egyptian Soc. Anim.Prod; Member of the Egyptian Soc. of Genetics; Member of the Egyptian Society of Genetic Engineering.

Mukhwana, Eusebius J.

Executive Director,

SACRED AFRICA,

Sustainable Agriculture Centre for Research,

Extension & Development in Africa,

Dr. Eusebius J. Mukhwana, 36 (born on 1st of August 1965) is the Founder Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Centre for Research, Extension and Development in Africa, an NGO working in Western Kenya.

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Veterinary Medicine and an MSc. In Pharmacology and Toxicology, both from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Early in his life, he was challenged to try and facilitate African farmers in finding solutions to their many and complex problems. It is to this calling that he devotes all his research, time and commitment. He has previously taught at a local Kenyan University and worked with many International NGOs.

Murphy, Noel B.

Department of Genetics,

The Smurfit Institute of Genetics,

Trinity College,

Dublin 2, Ireland

Noel B. Murphy, My long-term research goal is to contribute to alleviating constraints to livestock productivity and negative impacts on human health and welfare caused by trypanosomiasis in developing countries. Following a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Trinity College, Dublin, I was awarded an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship in 1984 to undertake research on the expression and switching of surface coat genes of trypanosomes at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. In 1987, I moved to ILRAD, Kenya (now ILRI) to undertake fundamental studies on trypanosomes towards identifying targets for the development of new control options against the diseases caused by these parasitic organisms. During my tenure at ILRAD/ ILRI, I have undertaken studies on aspects of trypanosome drug resistance, parasite differentiation, parasite-host interactions, immunosuppression, disease resistance mechanisms in African wildlife, factors controlling trypanosome growth, differentiation and death, surface-receptor genes and proteins and vaccine development. Research achievements include: Elucidation of the first DNA gene sequence to be undertaken in Ireland; The first application of RAPDs for the chracterisation of a protozoan parasite; The development of a differential display method to identify stage-regulated genes in trypanosomes and related kinetoplastids; The development of an in vivo system for selecting transgenic trypanosomes; Demonstrating that a drug used to control trypanosomiasis in livestock induces rapid multiple drug resistance. The results prompted restrictions on the use of this drug, thus averting the development of a potentially serious drug resistance problem.

In collaboration with ID-Lelystad I have elucidated an essential trypanosome signalling system for population control and differentiation resulting in a joint European patent covering the development of new therapeutic drugs. Together with European, American, Canadian and Kenyan collaborators I have made significant inroads into developing a vaccine against trypanosomiasis. Our recent research in this area has prompted the filing of a USA patent.

Nassar, Saad

Governer of El-Fayoum,

El-Fayoum, Egypt

Saad Nassar, Born at Sharquia Governorate/Egypt on 14/8/1941.

Holder of B.Sc. M.Sc. and Ph.D in Agricultural Economics and fellowship of the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank (IBRD).

Since graduation from the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University in 1963, he has assumed successive teaching staff positions at Ain Shams, Menya and Cairo Universities up to professorship in Agricultural Economics. In 1982, he was appointed to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Fayoum Branch. He served as Dean for 14 years and was appointed by a Presidential Decree as President of the A.R.C. in 1996.

Supervised 46 dissertations (M.Scs & Ph.Ds) in Agricultural Economics. In the 1980s, he acted as Advisor to the Ministry of Planning and the Institute of National Planning, during which period he participated in formulating the first 5-year plan for Socio-economic Development in Egypt. In the 1990s, he acted as Advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation; during which period he supervised the Agricultural Foreign Relations and the Economic Affairs Sector (EAS) of MALR. He also participated in the formulation of Egypt's, Strategy for Agricultural Development in 1990s, and the " Strategy for Agricultural Development Up To 2017 ".

Represented MALR in the WTO's multilateral negotiations, Egypt-EU Partnership. Egypt-US Partnership, COMESA, Consultative Group for Egypt at IBRD and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

Holder of "Science and Arts Accolade"' of the First Order in 1983; Selected for entry in the "National Encyclopaedia of Prominent Egyptian Personalities" in 1989; Holder of the FAO's, Certificate of Recognition on the World Food Day in 1993. In 1996, he was selected as a public figure to the membership of the Supreme Court of Conscience.

Was appointed by Presidential Decree to the membership of the National Council for Production and Economic Affairs, which is one of the specialized Taskforces providing counsel to the Presidency of the Republic.

Holder of the State's Award of Merit in 1998.

Nene, Vishvanath

Investigator,

Parasite Genomics Group,

The Institute for Genomic Research,

Maryland, USA

Vishvanath Nene, Ph.D. Bacterial genetics, 1980, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; B.Sc. Physiology & Biochemistry, 1977, University of Southampton, United Kingdom; Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Nottingham, U.K., 1980-1983; Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Cambridge, U.K., 1983-1986; Scientist, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, 1986-2001; Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research, USA, present

Brief history: Dr. Nene is a molecular biologist involved in human and veterinary vaccine research for over 15 years and is currently employed by The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), in the USA. Prior to this position, he was leading a research project at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya that has a goal of developing a subunit vaccine for the control of East Coast fever, a lethal disease of cattle caused by a pathogen called Theileria parva. His research interests include host-parasite biology, the immune responses to infection and the use of molecular techniques, in particular genomics research, for vaccine development. He chaired the ILRI committee on Intellectual Property and served on the Biosafety advisory committee for the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute.

Oborne, Michael

Director,

Multi-Disciplinary Issues/The Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (COECD),

Paris, France

Michael W. Oborne was educated at the Universities of California at Berkeley (BA, MA, Ph.D.), the University of Cambridge (Ford Foundation Fellow) and the Ecole Normale Superieure-Ulm in Paris, the Institut des Sciences Politiques, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (DEA). He taught on the faculties of the University of California at Berkeley, Cambridge University, the Universities of Paris IX and X, as well as the University of Milan, where he held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies in 1980, and from 1976-80 he was Director of Studies at the ENSAE in Paris. After joining the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1981, he served as a senior research manager in the Development Center of the OECD. There he specialized in work on technology and investment in the Asia-Pacific region., multilateral cooperation, and the emergence of new forms of economic cooperation such as the PECC and later the APEC. He spent time in China and South East Asia during this period, where he completed three research projects on the economic opening of China to the world economy. After working in the Cabinet of the Secretary General for several years, he moved to an assignment in the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry as Head of Division. Since 1996, he is Deputy Director for Science, Technology and Industry, where he is responsible for overseeing work in the biosciences, informatics, telecommunications, and science policy. Dr Oborne heads the ICGB, the internal OECD co-ordinating body on Biotechnology.

Persley, Gabrielle

Chair,

The Doyle foundation, UK

Dr Gabrielle Persley, is a scientific advisor to the several international organizations on biotechnology-related issues. She has published extensively over the past decade on the issues associated with the safe and effective use of modern science in agriculture and the environment. She has also participated in the preparation and appraisal of many World Bank projects on agricultural research and technology, including several in Africa, Asia and the Pacific over the past decade.

During the early 1980s, Dr. Persley helped establish and became the first scientific advisor of the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) in Canberra. She initiated and managed ACIAR's crop sciences program in Asia and the Pacific from 1983-1990. Dr. Persley developed and managed one of the first international studies on the implications of modern biotechnology to agricultural development, co sponsored by the World Bank, the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) in the Netherlands and the Australian government. Dr. Persley was the biotechnology manager in the World Bank in Washington D.C. from 1991-1996, during which time she worked closely with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

Dr. Persley is a graduate of the University of Queensland, Australia. She has a MSc and PhD in science, majoring in microbiology and plant pathology. Her doctoral thesis research was conducted on cassava bacterial blight in Africa. She spent three years as a plant pathologist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria. She also worked as a plant pathologist for several years in the Australian sugar industry. Dr. Persley was a Rotary Fellow in UK, undertaking research on horticultural tree crops.

Dr. Persley has been a Board member of CAB International, the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP) and the Australian sugar industry's Research and Development Corporation. She is the Chair of the newly created Doyle Foundation, a non governmental organisation whose purpose is to support and advocate the role of science in international development.

Rabbinge, Rudy

Professor,

Land Resources & Water Resources,

Wageningen, UR: Crop & Weed Ecology Group,

The Netherlands

Scientific Training: 1964 - 1971 Agricultural University. Degrees in Phytopathology, Entomology, Theoretical Production Ecology, Philosophy of Science; 1976 PhD-thesis. Biological control of fruit tree red spider mite.

Professional Career: Started 1968 with several assistantships in agronomy, entomology, phytopathology, philosophy, and theoretical biology and from 1998 present, Dean Wageningen University and Research Centre Graduate Schools; 2001 present, University Professor with special responsibilities for sustainable development and systems innovation.

More than 200 scientific publications (International journals), 5 text books, more than 250 other publications. More than 50 keynote addresses to international congresses and 500 other presentations to conferences and congresses.

Dr. Rabbinge has maintened many functions as an Exc. Board Member of many organizations in society and scientific functions and Industrial functions. He also practiced teaching for many years from 1974 till the present time as well as management exp. from 1978 till the present.

Riisgard, Steen

President and CEO Novozymes,

Bagsvaerd, Denmark

Steen Riisgard, Born 22 March 1951. Mr. Riisgaard joined Novo in 1979 as a microbiologist in Enzymes R&D.

In 1982 he went to Tokyo to start up an Enzymes R&D unit in Novo's subsidiary, Novo Industri Japan Ltd.

He returned to Denmark in 1985 as director of Enzyme Process Research and the following year was appointed vice president of the Detergent Enzyme Division.

In 1989 he was promoted to corporate executive vice president with special responsibility for Enzyme Business, including Enzyme Research, Enzyme Development and Application, Enzyme Production, Enzyme Operations and all of Novo Nordisk's activities in China.

Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, Mr. Riisgaard was a research fellow at the Serum Institute of Denmark (1976-77) and a research microbiologist at Foss Electric, Denmark.

Mr. Riisgaard received his MSc in Biology from the University of Copenhagen.

Mr.. Riisgaard serves on the boards of WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Denmark, and The Copenhagen Centre, New Partnerships for Social Responsibility.

Saber, Mohamed Ali

EPICO Pharma, Egypt

Dr. Mohamed Ali Saber, born in 1945 in Cairo.

Graduated from AIN-SHAMS University, BSc (1965),Diploma microbiology (1966), MSc (1970) Biochemistry, PhD (1974) Biochemistry and CSc (1976). He awarded three fellowships from Czechoslovak Academy of Science (1973 _1974 and 1975-1976), Camp David Institute for International Health N.Y., USA (1981-1982), Rockefeller Biotechnology Carrier Fellowship (1983-1985) and Albert Einstein Collage of Medicine, N.Y. (1986).In the field of molecular biology, he worked as consultant for Navy American Medical Research Unit 3 in Cairo, For EIPICO pharmaceutical company and for El Borg Laboratory Company. He is a member of Biotechnology, Biosafty, and Bioethics National Committees. He has teaching experience in Medical, Phrmamac, and Science Faculties. He is a Professor of Biochemistry since 1984, and Chairman of Biochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry Departments since 1993. More than 50 MSc and PhD thesis has been completed under his supervision. His main field of research are application of molecular biology in study of molecular changes in pathophysiological states such as schistosomiasis and viral infections and in the field of molecular diagnosis of infectious agents. In addition genome studies and protein expression for production of recombinant proteins used as a vaccines or for treatment.

Sallam, Ismail

Minister,

Health and Population,

Cairo, Egypt

Ismail Sallam, Born: July 1941, Menoufia, Egypt; Marriage: Married to Prof. Wafeya Eteiba, Head of Cardiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al Azhar University, Cairo. Egypt; and member in the National Committee for Women; Children: Three sons, Tamer, Karim and Hesham; Languages: Arabic, English, and French

Honorary FRCS Glasgow (1996), Ph.D. Glasgow University (1973), FRCS England (1970), FACS (1970), FACC (1966); M.B. B.Ch. Ain Shams University (1964); Party Memberships: Member of the National Democratic Party

Profession: Heart Surgeon and Politician

Primary Position: Minister of Health and Population (4/1/1996 - till present); Professor of Cardiac Surgeryand Member of the Shurah Council.

Political Career: Minister of Health and Population (4/1/1996 - till present); Chairman, Executive Council of the Arab Ministers of Health, League of Arab States and Chairman, Executive Bureau of the African Ministers of Health, Organization of African Unity; Chair, Partners Board, Partners in Population and Development: A South-South Initiative; Member of Shurah (Consultative Council since 1992); Head of Health and Population Committee at the Peoples' Assembly and Affairs Committee of the National Democratic Party.

Professional Career: Minister of Health and Population (4/1/1996 - till present); Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (1991-1995); Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (1979 - 1990); Senior Special Fellow, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Alabama, Alabama, USA (1979); Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Kuwait, Kuwait (1977 - 1979); Assistant Professor and Head of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Kuwait, Kuwait (1974 - 1977); Visiting Professor, Department of Artificial Organs, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA (1973); Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (1970 - 1973); Registrar, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom (1968 - 1970); House Officer, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt (1964 - 1967)

Political Interests: Chairman, Health, Environment and Population Committee, Egyptian Consultative Assembly (Shurah); Member, Supreme Health Council; Board

Member, Institute of National Studies; Chairman, Health Committee, National Democratic Party (1994); Member of the Integrated Care Society

Business/Professional Memberships: Fellowship, International College of Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, American College of Cardiology; Member, Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons of Britain, Scottish Thoracic Society, American Medical Association, International Society of Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia, European Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, Council Member, International Federation of Cardiovascular Sciences

Honors & Awards: United Nations Population Award for the Year 2000 (Personal); Award of the United Arab Emirates Foundation Prize for 1999;The Order of Merit from the Libyan Jamahiriya (1999); WHO commemorative medal and certificate on the occasion of World No-Tobacco Day, 1998; International Achievement Prize from the Arab Women Organization, 1997; Golden Medal of the Egyptian Medical Association, 1985.

Publications: More than 82 publications

Social/Leisure Club Memberships: Board Member Egyptian Opera House, Heliolido Club & Heliopolis Sporting Club

Committees: Vice-President, Egyptian Society of Cardiology; Council Member, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University; Member, Integrated Council (Menoufia) & Institute for National Studies; Supervisor, Cardiac Surgery Department, Al Azhar University

 

Sasson, Albert

Former Assistant Director-General,

UNESCO Senior Consultant, (Publicis Dialog, Paris

and UNESCO)

Paris, France

Albert Sasson, is Agrégé of the University (1958) and Doctor of Natural Sciences (Microbiology) of the University of Paris (1967). His research work in microbiology has dealt with the microflora of arid lands, and with free and symbiotic nitrogen-fixing micro-organisms. After a career at the Faculty of Science in Rabat (Morocco) from 1954 to 1973 (Dean of the Faculty from 1963 to 1969), Dr. Sasson joined UNESCO in 1974.

As a member of the Division of Ecological Sciences, he participated in the activities of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB), notably those concerning arid and semi-arid zones, and prepared major state-of-knowledge reports on tropical forest and grazing land ecosystems of the world (Tropical Forest Ecosystems, 1978; Tropical Grazing Land Ecosystems, 1979; Ecosystèmes forestiers tropicaux d'Afrique, 1983).

From 1979 to 1985, he participated, within the Bureau of Studies and Programming of the Directorate of UNESCO, in the elaboration of the biennial programmes and Medium-Term Plan of the Organization in science and technology. From 1985 to 1987, he was the Director of the Central Evaluation Unit of the Directorate of UNESCO. In 1988, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Programme Planning and, in November 1990, Director of the Bureau of Studies, Programming and Evaluation (including the Division of Statistics). On 1 September 1993, he was promoted to the rank of Assistant Director-General. Retired on 1 April 1996, he was appointed Special Adviser to the Director-General (1996-1999).

Albert Sasson is Associate Member of the Club of Rome. He was awarded the Honorary Degree in Science by De Montfort University (Leicester, United Kingdom). On May 2000, he has been elected Member of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU, Beer-Sheva) Board of Governors. A. Sasson has been appointed by the King of Morocco Member of the Human Rights Consultative Council in 1960, when this body was created.

Since January 2000, A. Sasson is carrying out the tasks of senior consultant, in particular to the UNESCO, Moroccan institutions and the company Publicis Dialog (Paris).

Among some 200 publications, including his research and popularization activities in soil microbiology, algology and agrobiology (Le rôle des micro-organismes dans la biosphère et l'avenir de la microbiologie appliquée, 1970), Albert Sasson has published books and contributed to publications on biology teaching (Teacher's Study Guide on the Biology of Human Populations, 1974-75; New Trends in Biology Education, 1977; Environmental Education: Teaching and Learning Principles, 1987); on environment

and development issues (Développement et environnement - faits et perspectives dans les pays industrialisés et en voie de développement, 1974; Ingenier?a y ambiente, formaci?n ambiental para ingenieros, 1982; New Technologies and Development, 1986); on food and nutrition (Feeding Tomorrow's World, 1990); and on biotechnologies (Biotechnologies: Challenges and Promises, 1984; Biotechnologies and Development, 1988; Plant Biotechnologies for Developing Countries, 1990; Biotechnologies in Perspective, 1991; Biotechnology: Economic and Social Aspects. Issues for Developing Countries, 1992; Biotechnology and Natural Products. Prospects for Commercial Production, 1992; Biotechnologies in Developing Countries: Present and Future. Vol. 1: Regional and National Survey, 1993; Vol. 2: International Co-operation, 1997; Vol.3: Regional Co-operation and Joint Ventures, 2000; Microalgal Biotechnologies: Recent Developments and Prospects for Developing Countries, 1997; Plant Biotechnology-Derived Products: Market-Value Estimates and Public Acceptance, 1998).

 

Schneider, Cynthia P.

Ambassador,

Associate Professor of Art History,

Art, Music & Theatre,

Georgetown University,

Washington D.C., USA

Cynthia P. Schneider, a member of the Georgetown University faculty since 1984, Ambassador Schneider teaches both in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Foreign Service. Her courses focus on Renaissance and Baroque art. She has published several books and numerous articles on Rembrandt and Dutch art of the seventeenth century, for example, Rembrandt's Landscapes, Yale University Press, 1990. In addition to her academic work, Ambassador Schneider was named Vice-Chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by President Clinton.

Cynthia P. Schneider served as the 61st Ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of the Netherlands from August of 1998 to June of 2001. Ambassador Schneider led initiatives in the fields of biotechnology, cyber security, education and public diplomacy, and culture. Under her guidance the Embassy organized an international conference on biotechnology held in The Hague in January 2000, which has been credited with improving the climate for biotechnology in The Netherlands. The proceedings of the conference, which attracted 450 attendees plus thousands of visitors to the website (www.usemb.nl/bioproc.htm), have been published as a special supplement by The Journal of Biolaw and Business. Together with the European Commission on the Environment and the U.S. Mission to the European Union, Ambassador Schneider co-organized a follow-up biotechnology conference in Brussels that targeted the European Commission and Parliament. In April 2001 Ambassador Schneider partnered with Royal Dutch Shell and the Rand Corporation to host a conference on cyber security. In addition to her work with the Dutch government and the international institutions in The Hague, such as the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Ambassador Schneider was a staunch advocate for American businesses in The Netherlands, particularly the pharmaceutical, food and grain, oil and gas, financial, transportation, IT and military acquisitions sectors. For her efforts on behalf of the U.S. aerospace and defense industry, Ambassador Schneider was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service Order, the highest civilian award given by the Department of Defense, last awarded to an Ambassador twelve years ago.

Ambassador Schneider also was active in public diplomacy. She gave speeches on a wide range of subjects, including the global economy, biotechnology, Dutch American relations, the glass ceiling, politics and culture in America, and traditions of freedom and democracy in America (see www.usemb.nl/schneide.htm). Ambassador Schneider also led cultural initiatives, including a Millennium Project, which brought Dutch high school students together with veterans and survivors of World War II to capture oral histories. Fostering a collaboration with the North Sea Jazz Festival, the largest indoor jazz festival, Ambassador Schneider launched the now-annual U.S. Embassy North Sea Jazz Festival Jam Session. Through the State Department's Art-in-Embassies program, she assembled at the Embassy Residence a museum-quality collection of American art, for which she wrote the catalogue, Another Salute.

Born in Pennsylvania on August 16, 1953, Ambassador Schneider earned a BA Magna cum Laude in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1977. She completed her Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Harvard University in 1984. Prior to teaching at Georgetown, she was Assistant Curator of European Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ambassador Schneider speaks Dutch, French, Italian, and some German. She is married and has two children.

Serageldin, Ismail

Director General,

Bibliotheca Alexandrina,

Alexandria, Egypt

Ismail Serageldin, is an Egyptian national, born in Guiza in 1944. He is married with one son. He is tri-lingual: Arabic, French and English.

Education: 1964 B.Sc. (First Class Honors) Cairo University; 1968 M.R.P. (With Distinction) Harvard University; 1972 Ph.D. Harvard University

Honorary degrees: 1996 Doctor of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania; 1996 Doctor of Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, Australia; 1997 Doctor of Science, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India; 1998 Doctor of International Affairs, American University, Washington, DC, USA; 1998 Doctor of Science, Punjab Agricultural University, India; 1998 Doctor of Science, Tamil Nadu Veterinary & Animal Sciences Univ., India; 1998 Doctor of Natural Resources Management, Ohio State Univ., USA; 1999 Doctor of Science, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India; 1999 Doctor of Science, ANGRAU, Hyderabad, India; 1999 Doctor of Economics and Management, CNAM, Paris, France; 1999 Doctor of Science, Egerton University, Kenya; 1999 Doctor of Agricultural Science, University of Tuscia, Italy; 2000 Doctor of Humane Letters, American University in Cairo, Egypt; Currently Special Advisor, The World Bank; Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University in Cairo (AUC); Advisor to the Egyptian Government on the New Library of Alexandria; Distinguished University Professor, Wageningen University, the Netherlands; Also serves as chair and member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions and civil society efforts.

Previous appointments: Vice President of the World Bank till July 2000, (for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, from October 1992 to March 1998, and for Special Programs from March 1998 to July 2000); Chairman, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR, 1994-2000); Chairman, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), a microfinance program (1995-2000); Chairman of the Global Water Partnership (GWP, 1996-2000); Chairman, World Commission for Water in the 21st Century (August 1998-March 2000); 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 Sub-Saharan Africa (1990-92), and Vice-President for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (1993-98). In addition, he was active in promoting NGO-Bank relations, and served as Co-Chairman of the NGO-Bank Committee (1997-99). Prior to joining the World Bank, worked as a consultant in city and regional planning, and taught at Cairo University and Harvard University.

Professional Memberships: Member, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India; Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Austria; Member, Bangladesh Academy of Science, Dhaka; American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP); Publications & Speeches

Over 40 books and monographs (edited or authored) and 200 articles, book chapters, and technical papers on various topics, including: Nurturing Development (1995), Sustainability and the Wealth of Nations (1996), Architecture of Empowerment (1997), Rural Well-Being: From Vision to Action (1997, with David Steeds), The Modernity of Shakespeare (1998), Biotechnology and Biosafety (1999, with Wanda Collins), Very Special Places (1999) and Promethean Science (2000, with G. Persley).

 

Shawki, Ahmed

Professor, Genetics,

Zagazig University,

Zagazig, Egypt

Ahmed Shawki, Date of Birth: June 19 1942, Cairo, Egypt; Employment & Activities: Executive Director, Foreign Relation Coordination Unit (FRCU); Ministry of Education: Member, Think Tank Project, entitled "Strengthening the Capacity of the Education Sector" (According to a contract for special service agreement with the operational Unit for Development Assistance, UN); Member, Brain Trust, Improvement of Basic Education (World Bank Project); Member, The Commitee for reviewing Science Books; Academy of Scientific Research & Technology: Member, National Focal Point of Genetic Engineering; Member, National Commitee of Genetics & Member of the Sub-Commitee responsible for preparing the Directory: Who's Who in Genetical Sciences; UNESCO (National Committees): for Science & Technology and for Bioethics; Ministry of Agriculture: Member, National Commitee for Biosafety; Ministry of Youth: Member, National Commitee for Scientific Culture; UNEP: Member, National Task Force for Biosafety Guidelines.

Menofeia University: Member, The Council of the Genetic Engineering & Tissue Culture Center; Supreme Council of Culture: Member, Scientific Culture Commitee; Chairman, Scientific Media & Publishing Sub-Commitee.

Education: Ph.D. in Biology (Genetics), Leningrad State University, 1975, Title "Studies on YEAS (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) Mutants, Induced by 6-Hydroxy-aminopurine"; M.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences (Genetics), Faculty of Agricultural, Ain-Shams University, 1969, Title "Inheritance of Earliness & some other characters in Rice (Oryza Satival L.); B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, 1962.

Research Activities: Areas of Interest, Microbial Genetics, Comparative Mutagenesis, Environmental Mutagenesis & Genetic Engineering.

Funded Projects: University Linkage Project (Phase 1): Member of the Research Team of the Maxi Project No. 842082: "Production of Standard Fruit Tree Transplants".

Science & Technology Project (Academy of Scientific Research & Technology): Member of the Research Team of the Advanced Technology Project No. 263-0140.1 "Introduction of Bacillus thurin Genesis Endotoxin Gene Into Cotton Plants"; "PI" The Future of Sciences & Technology in Egypt; Supervision of Post-Graduate Studies: 8 Ph.D. and 10 M.Sc.

Managerial & Reviewing Activities: Project Coordinator, University Linkage Project, Phase 1 (1986-1989), and Member of the Priority Commitee for Agriculture & Environmental Studies during the same period; Reviewer, Genetic Engineering Projects, Academy of Scientific Research & Technology; Executive Director,University Linkage Project, Phase II (April, 1994).

Shehab, Moufid

Minister,

Higher Education & Scientific Research,

Cairo, Egypt

Moufid Shehab, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research since July 1997.

Academic Experience: Member of the International Law Academy Alumni Association, The Hague, since 1962.

Member of the Taba National Commission (1984-1988), and Member of the Egyptian Defense Team at the Taba international Arbitration Court, Geneva (1986-1988); Member of the legal commission of the Arab-Human Rights Organization, since 1985.

Judge at the Permanent Arbitration Court, The Hague, since 1988. Director of the International Business Law Institute at the faculty of law, Cairo University (1988-1993).

Chairman of the Arab and Foreign Affairs and National Security Committee, Shura Assembly (1989-1997). Chairman of the Egyptian Bar Association, since 1984. Deputy Chairman of the Arab International Arbitral Commission, Paris, since 1991, Chairman in 1998.

General Supervisor on the Arab-European Studies Center in Paris, since 1992.

Member of the Higher Council for the Press (1992-1997). Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Supporters Society in Cairo, since 1993; Member of the Arbitration Commission at the International Arbitration Center, Bahrain, since 1993; Member of the Egyptian Scientific Academy, since 1994. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Society for the International Law, since 1997.

President of Cairo University (1993-1997). Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research since July 1997.

Chairman of the Non-Aligned Countries In UNESCO, 1998.

Soliman,Salah Ahmed

Professor of Chemistry,

Faculty of Agriculture,

Alexandria, Egypt

Salah Ahmed Soliman, Professor of Pesticide Chemistry and Toxicology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, 1986-present.

Visiting Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, 1979 - 1982.

Visiting Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, (UTMB), Galveston, Texas, USA. 1987 - 1988.

Visiting Professor, King Saud University, Saudy Arabia, 1988 - 1994.

Member, Final Review Boards (FRBs), International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS), World Health Organization (WHO) since 1992.

Member, Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues, WHO/FAO JMPR. since 1999.

Vice - Chairman, Steering Group on Risk Assessment (IPCS/SGRA, WHO), 1999 - present.

More than 25 students obtained their MSc and / or PhD degrees under his supervision at Alexandria - and other Universities.

Has more than 70 scientific papers in areas of neurotoxicity, pesticides and heavy metals monitoring and mode of actions published mostly in international journals.

Wrote several chapters in international books.

Constructed a number of Research Laboratories at the Department of Pesticide Chemistry and Toxicology, Alex University through research projects funded by USEPA and other US and UN organizations.

Member, US Society of Toxicology; Society of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology; Weed Science Society of America; and Egyptian Society of Toxicology.

Rewarded the National Award on Agricultural Sciences, 1980 and offered the First Level Medallion of Science and Art by Decree of the President of Egypt, 1981.

Sriwatanapongse, Sutat

Director,

Thailand Biodiversity Center (NGGEB),

Bangkok, Thailand

Dr. Sutat Sriwatanapongse, received his Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from Iowa State University in late 1967. He is at present serving as Director, Thailand Biodiversity Center, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), in Bangkok, Thailand. He had served as the Deputy Director of the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), NSTDA, during 1992-1999. In this role he used his broad background and experience to bridge traditional technology with advanced biotechnology and at present linked to biodiversity. Previously, he served as the North Africa/Middle East Regional Maize Specialist for CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center). Before joining CIMMYT, he was Vice President of Kasetsart University and at one time served as Director of Research for the Dekalb AgResearch/Charoen Pokphan Joint Research Company in Thailand. He gave lectures on plant breeding and genetics and carried out research work for several years. One collaborated project on the development of Suwan 1 variety won the Outstanding Research Award from the National Research Council. The variety has been used as an open-pollinated variety and as a source material worldwide.

Dr. Sutat served as the member of IRRI ARBN (Asian Rice Biotechnology Network) Steering Committee during 1993- 1998 and Chaired this committee for 4 years and continue to serve as a member. He also served as the Interim Chair of CIMMYT AMBIONET (Asian Maize Biotech Network) Steering Committee in 1998-1999 and continues to serve as a member in this committee. He has been involving in the International Biosafety Protocol negotiation under the UNEP CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) since the beginning until the last adopted one. Thailand National Center for Biodiversity is being established under his leadership under the umbrella of the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA). His main responsibilities at present are biosafety, biodiversity and intellectual property, besides the agricultural biotechnology.

Taylor, David

Deputy Director General,

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI),

Nairobi, Kenya

Prior to joining ILRI, David Taylor, was professor of tropical animal health and Director of the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (CTVM) at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. His technical expertise is in immunochemistry and molecular biology. His principal research has been concerned with helminth infections, including schistoso-miasis and onchocerciasis. After joining CTVM in 1994, he successfully reorganised programmes with new emphasis on epidemiology and public health, vector biology and wildlife management and conservation. Funding for CTVM increased more than three-fold with major increases from Wellcome Trust and European Union adding to support from the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DfID). Among other duties, he will compliment ILRI scientists and partners in the implementation of ILRI's new Strategy to 2010, Making the Livestock Revolution Work for the Poor.

Thomson, Jennifer

Professor of Microbiology,

Department of Molecular & Cell Biology,

University of Cape Town,

South Africa

Jennifer Thomson, obtained her MA at Cambridge (UK) and PhD at Rhodes University (SA). She was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard (USA) and a visiting scientist at MIT (USA). She held the posts of lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand before becoming Director of the Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology of the CSIR. In 1988 she became Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Cape Town. She is currently Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UCT. She was awarded the JAYCEEs award of the Four Outstanding Young South Africans in 1984. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, serves on the board of AfricaBio and the International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotech Applications and is a consultant to the World Health Organization on GMOs. Her research interests include the development of transgenic maize for resistance to the African endemic maize streak virus and tolerant to drought.

Tolba, Mostafa

President,

International Center for Environment and Development,

Cairo, Egypt

Mostafa K. Tolba (b. 1922) is president of the International Center for Environment and Development and the former executive director of the United Nations Environment Program. B.S. (botany), Cairo University (1943); Ph.D., University of London (1949). Professor of microbiology, Cairo University (1968-); Undersecretary of State, Egyptian Ministry of Education (1965); Executive Director, UNEP (1976-1994); contributed articles to professional journals; recipient, Science and Technology of the 1st Order Award, Egypt (1950); State Prize of Egypt in Biology (1959); Arab Representative of Egypt of 1st Order Award (1981); Only One Earth Award from the Rene Dubos Centre; fellow, Imperial College, London (1988). Prof. Tolba has been on the board of directors of the World Resources Institute, Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, International Conference on Genetics, International Institute on Environment and Development, the Egyptian Botanical Society, Institut d'Egypt, and other organizations.

Toure, Yeya Tiémoko

Manager, Molecular Entomology Committee, CDS/TDR,

World Health Organization,

20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.

E-mail: tourey@who.ch

Yeya Tiémoko Toure

Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics, Medical Entomologist, Faculty of Medicine Pharmacy and Odonto-stomatology (FMPOS), Bamako, Mali. (1979-2001)

Head, Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC), at FMPOS, Bamako, Mali (1991- 2001)

Research Areas: Malaria vector biology, ecology and genetics; malaria epidemiology, transmission and control.

Director General, National Research Council (CNRST), Bamako, Mali (1986-1991).

Awarded: Etoile d'argent du Mérite National du Mali, 1995.

TWAS Fellow, Elected 1997

Member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Bamako, Mali (1993- 2001).

Member, Scientific Council, West African Organization for Coordination of Control of Endemic Diseases (OCCGE), 1989-1994.

Member of WHO/TDR Steering Committees (FIELDMAL, RSG, AFR) and Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC)

Joined WHO/TDR in June 2001 as Manager of the Steering Committee for Molecular Entomology of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR),

Van Montagu, Marc

Director,

The VIB Department of Plant Genetics,

University of Gent,

Gent, Belgium

Marc Van Montagu was full Professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences, Ghent University and scientific director of the Genetics Department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). He was a part-time professor at the biology, nucleic acid chemistry, and virology. He was Scientific Director and member of the board of Directors of plant Genetic systems Inc. (Belgium).

Together with his colleague Prof. Jeff Schell, Marc Van Montagu discovered the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium and plants, which resulted in the development of methods to alter Agrobacterium into an efficient delivery system for gene engineering in plants. He developed plant molecular genetics, in particular molecular mechanisms for cell proliferation and differentiation and response to abiotic stresses (high light, ozone, cold, salt and drought) and constructed transgenic crops (tobacco, rape seed, corn) resistant to insect pest and tolerant to novel herbicides. His work with poplar trees resulted in engineering of trees with improved pulping qualities.

He has received numerous outstanding awards for his pioneering work, including the prestigious "Japan Prize". He has been a foreign associate of the National Academy of Science (USA) since 1986 and the agricultural Academy of Russia and France. He holds 6 Doctor Honoris Causa Degrees. In 1990 he was granted the title of "Baron" by Baudouin 1, King of the Belgians.

Vincent, Jean Didier

Director,

CNRS Institute, Alfred Fessard,

Cedex, France

Jean-Didier Vincent is 66 years old. He is Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France and at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, as well as Director of the Institut Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard in the CNRS (Gif/Yvette). He was recently nominated vice-chairman of the National Council of Programs in the Ministry of Education.

From 1979-1991, he was director of the Unit of Behavioral Neurobiology in INSERM, and Professor at Bordeaux University.

Member of the National Academy of Medecine (France), Academy of Arts and Science of the United States of America, Academia Europea, Royal Academy of Belgium (Science and Medecine), French Academy of Sciences ( correspondant member).

The scientific contribution of Jean-Didier Vincent was made in a recently created branch of biology - that of Neuroendocrinology, of which he is a world pioneer. This discipline can be resumed as the study of interactions between glands and the nervous system, and an approach to brain function as an endocrine gland itself.

The Neuroendocrinology developped by Jean-Didier Vincent associates hormonal phenomena with behavioral events and the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying them. It is the physiology of the "milieu" or context, which considers that physiology can never be explained by a reductionist approach, but rather that each physiological event should be re-situated in an ongoing continuity, very dependant on the extracorporeal environment. This point of view gives rise to the concept of the "fluctuating state". This was developed in a theoretical treaty "Biology of emotions" which has been translated into many languages and widely diffused.

Jean-Didier Vincent was among the first to show the modulatory activity of certain hormones on cerebral activity and on the neuronal mechanisms underlying functions such as water and salt balance, hunger, thirst, reproduction, sleep, etc...Casting aside classical barriers between hormones and the nervous system, he showed that certain endocrine cells, including those in the hypophysis, shared with neurones certain properties of electrical excitability. By recourse to molecular electrophysiology techniques and in vitro models (primary cultures and slices of brain and hypophysis) he studied the diversity of regulatory mechanisms and membrane signal transduction, the modulatory action of steroids and finally the means by which all of these actions are integrated in the adaptative functions of a living organism.

Since moving to the Institut Alfred Fessard and the Faculty of Medicine at Paris-Sud, Jean-Didier Vincent has centred a part of his research activity on the mechanisms responsible for exocytosis, and in particular the role of the G proteins in the Rab3 family in the control of neurohormone liberation.

With Philippe Vernier, he has studied the phylogeny of dopamine receptors in nerve cells and that of monoamines in general, and based on comparative data proposed a series of evolutive mechanisms leading to the installation in vertebrates of a noradrenergic system associated with the new motivational type capacities which are typical of these species.

In the domain of physiopathological research, his most recent work concerns the modes of action of the HIV virus in the neuronal death process and on the synaptic properties of the prion protein.

Finally, over the past three years, Jean-Didier Vincent has centred his research on the mechanisms of integration of odorant signals in the olfactive bulb, showing in particular the role of permanent neurogenesis of gabaergic neurons in sensorial discrimination.

In addition to his accomplishments as a research scientist and a teacher, Jean-Didier Vincent also communicates through general network media, continually writing scientifico-philosophical books for the general public, such as Casanova ou la Contagion du Plaisir (Odile Jacob) Celui qui parlait presque (Odile Jacob), La Chair et le Diable (Odile Jacob) and La Vie est une Fable (Odile Jacob), Faust : Une histoire naturelle (Odile Jacob), Qu'est-ce que l'homme (Odile Jacob), La dispute sur le vivant (Desclée de Brouwer), La nouvelle physiologie du goût (Odile Jacob) along with numerous articles in literary or philosophical journals. In 1993, he had a weekly hour-long program on Wednesday evenings on the radio station France-Musique in which he managed to amalgamate music and biology and actually he produces a weekly scientific program " in vivo " on France Culture for Radio France.

Wally, Youssuf

Deputy Prime Minister,

Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation,

Cairo, Egypt

Youssuf A. Wally, date of Birth April 2, 1931 Egypt.

Scientific Degrees: B.Sc.. Agriculture, Cairo University, 1951; M. Sc. Horticulture, Cairo University, 1955; Ph.D. Horticulture, Cairo University, 1958.

Activities: Visited several countries (conference attendance, meetings, state visit) USA, USSR, China, UK, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Albania, Italy, Greece, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Jordan, Bulgaria, Sudan, Lebanon, Spain, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Japan, Philippines, India, lndonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Korea, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Germany, Denmark.

Introduced hormonal & growth regulators applications, as well as, tissue culture research to Egyptian Agricultural research system.

Supervised interdisciplinary teams in agricultural sciences, the fruit of which was 22 Ph.D. degrees, 35 M. Sc. degrees.

Editor of the "Agriculture Annals" of Ain Shams University up to 1982, the "Egyptian Journal of Horticulture"; and "The Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology" since 1973 till now.

Positions: Professor, Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, till 1981; Advisor for the Libyan Government 1962; Scientific advisor for the Minister of Agriculture & Land Reclamation, the Minister of Scientific Research and the Minister of Army from 1969 to 1982; President of the Mediterranean Group of Plant Physiology; President elect of the World Food Council (1989-1992).

Membership: American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS); American Society of Horticultural Science (ASHS); Scandinavian Society for Plant Physiology; Chairman of Executive Board of Egyptian Horticulture Society.

Zahra, Adel Abou

Professor,

Behavioral Sciences,

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime

Transport (AASTMT),

Alexandria, Egypt

Adel Muhammad Abou Zahra, Bachelor of Arts, 1969; Master of Arts, 1974, in Psychology; Ph. D. 1978, in Psychology;1978 - 1983: Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences; 1983 - 1988: Assistant Professor and 1988 to present: Full Professor

Taught in Institute of Educational Research, Faculty of Arts, Arab Academy for Sciences and Technology and Postgraduate Studies in Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Sciences; Expert in human development with UN organizations; Participated in establishing the Department of Humanities in Arab Academy for Sciences and Technology; Undertook teaching programmes in Aesthetic Psychology; Scientific Thinking, Scientific Research Methodologies, Environmental Education; Behavioural Sciences; Psychological Health; and Critical and Creative Thinking.

Published articles in various books and journals; Undertook the design of numerous research studies, their supervision, examination and/or evaluation.; Expert in human development with UN organizations in Violence against Women and elimination all forms of discriminations against women; Author of numerous scientific articles and books in the fields of environment, women's rights, development, education, creativity, and human rights; Participated in national preparation for international summits such as: UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, 1992; UN Population and Development Conference in Cairo, 1994; UN Social Development Conference in Copenhagen, 1995; UN Women and Development Conference in Beijing, 1995; UN Human Settlements Conference (Habitat 2) in Istanbul, 1996; Participated in numerous workshops and conferences, both national and international; Active Board and Committee

Memberships: Member of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Culture (Social Sciences Committee); Head of the Evaluation Committee for Environmental Education Projects at the Egyptian Academy for Scientific Research and Technology; Member of the executive Board of the Development Research Center at the American University in Cairo; Member of the Board of Directors of the Development Support Center, Cairo; Member of the Council for Environment and Development Research of the Egyptian Academy for Scientific Research and Technology (branch of awareness); Member of the National Selection Committees in Egypt of the UNDP - administrated GEF (Global Environmental Facility) NGO Small Grants Programme and the LIFE (Local Initiatives for the Environment) Programme; Member of the National Steering Committee for the Egyptian Environmental Initiatives Fund Programme (a joint CIDA - Egyptian Environmental Affairs Authority programme); Member of the International NGO Council to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women; Member of the Committee of Culture and Media (The National Council for Women); Member of the Committee for Dialogue between Civilizations; Member of the Committee for Tolerance and Acceptance of the others; A known activist in the overall nongovernmental movement in Egypt.