Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan

Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan
Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan
	Mohamed H.A. Hassan at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, November 2018
Born	November 21, 1947 (age 76); Sudan
Nationality	Sudanese
Alma mater	University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, University of Oxford
	Scientific career
Fields	Applied mathematics, plasma physics, environmental modelling, geophysics, astrophysics

Mohamed H. A. Hassan (محمد حاج علي حاج الحسن ) is the co-chair of IAP, the Global Network of Science Academies, and chairman of the Council of the United Nations University (UNU). He also serves on a number of Boards of international organizations worldwide, including the Board of Trustees of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt; the Council of Science and Technology in Society (STS ) Forum, Japan; the Board of the International Science Programme, Sweden; the Board of the Science Initiative Group (SIG), USA; and the International Advisory Board of the Centre for International Development (ZEF), Germany.

After obtaining his DPhil in Mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1974, he returned to Sudan and later became Professor and Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Khartoum. He has a long list of publications in theoretical plasma physics and fusion energy, wind erosion, and dust and sand transport in dry lands. He has also published several articles on science and technology in the developing world.

Dr. Hassan was the founding Executive Director of the Academy of Science for the Developing World (TWAS), President of the African Academy of Sciences, President of the Network of Academies of Science in Africa (NASAC) and Chairman, Honorary Presidential Advisory Council for Science and Technology, Nigeria. He also is a founding member of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences.

Among his honours: Comendator, Grand Cross, and National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil; and Officer, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

He is a member of several merit-based academies of science, including TWAS; the African Academy of Sciences; Islamic World Academy of Sciences; Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales; Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Belgium; Pakistan Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences of Lebanon; Cuban Academy of Sciences; Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Academy of Sciences of South Africa.