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Professor
Mohamed T. El-Ashry
FAAS FTWAS
Nationality Egypt
EducationUniversity of Cairo
University of Illinois
Alma materUniversity of Cairo
Scientific career
FieldsWater resource management
Environmental resource management and development
Energy policies
Institutions

Mohamed T. El-Ashry was the first Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and subsequently a Senior Fellow with the UN Foundation.

Education

Mohamed T. El-Ashry obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1959 from the University of Cairo, and a Master of Science in 1963 and Doctor of Philosophy in Geology, in 1966, from the University of Illinois.[1][2]

Career

El-Ashry was a lecturer and researcher at Cairo University, Pan-American-U.A.R. Oil Company, Wilkes University, and the Environmental Defense Fund. After that, he became a Senior Vice President of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and as the Director of Environmental Quality with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).[3]

He later joined World Bank where he held the position of Chief Environmental Advisor (1991–1993), Chief Environmental Advisor to the President (1993–1994), and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman (1994–2003).[4] From World Bank, he joined Global Environment Facility (GEF) where he became the CEO and Chairman of the organisation for eleven years (1991-2002).[5][6]

El-Ashry research focused on water resource management,[7][8][9] environmental resource management and development,[10][11][12] and energy policies that promotes renewable energy.[13][14]

Fellowship and membership

El-Ashry was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America,[15] a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[6] a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1990,[16] and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2001,[3] and a Senior Fellow with the UN Foundation.[15][17]

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2012 advising on renewable energy,[18] and a board member World Wide Fund for Nature, Resources for the Future, and Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century.[15][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Transcript of oral history interview with Mohamed T. el-Ashry held on May 29 and 30, 2003" (PDF).
  2. ^ "United Nations Secretariat to the High Level Panel on System-wide Coherence". www.un.org. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  3. ^ a b "El-Ashry Mohamed T. | The AAS". www.aasciences.africa. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  4. ^ "el-Ashry, Mohamed T. | Archives". oralhistory.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  5. ^ Environment, U. N. (2019-08-22). "Dr. Mohamed El-Ashry". Champions of the Earth (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  6. ^ a b c "Mohamed T. El-Ashry". unfoundation.org. 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  7. ^ Pollution, United States Congress Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Environmental (1977). Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977: Fort Collins, Colo. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  8. ^ Duda, Alfred M.; El-Ashry, Mohamed T. (2000-03-01). "Addressing the Global Water and Environment Crises through Integrated Approaches to the Management of Land, Water and Ecological Resources". Water International. 25 (1): 115–126. Bibcode:2000WatIn..25..115D. doi:10.1080/02508060008686803. ISSN 0250-8060. S2CID 56254270.
  9. ^ "How to access research remotely".
  10. ^ Serageldin, Ismail; Martin-Brown, Joan (1999). Partnerships for Global Ecosystem Management: Science, Economics, and Law : Proceedings and Reference Readings from the Fifth Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, Held at the World Bank and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., October 6-7, 1997. World Bank Publications. ISBN 978-0-8213-4265-7.
  11. ^ Notification to EPA of Hazardous Waste Activities: Region 4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1980.
  12. ^ Wolfensohn, James D.; Seligmann, Peter A.; El-Ashry, Mohamed T.; Tribune, International Herald (2000-08-22). "Opinion | How Biodiversity Can Be Preserved if We Get Smart Together". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  13. ^ "The Renewable Energy Era Has Already Started". New Security Beat. 2015-11-05. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  14. ^ El-Ashry, Mohamed T. (2012). "National Policies to Promote Renewable Energy". Daedalus. 141 (2): 105–110. doi:10.1162/DAED_a_00150. ISSN 0011-5266. JSTOR 23240283. S2CID 57563534.
  15. ^ a b c "Mohamed T. El-Ashry | Leaders | WWF". World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  16. ^ "El-Ashry, Mohamed Taha". TWAS. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  17. ^ "United Nations Secretariat to the High Level Panel on System-wide Coherence". www.un.org. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  18. ^ "Mohamed T. El-Ashry". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
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