Mohamed T. El-Ashry Explained

Mohamed T. El-Ashry
Education:University of Cairo
University of Illinois
Nationality:Egyptian
Honorific Suffix:FAAS FTWAS
Honorific Prefix:Professor
Fields:Water resource management
Environmental resource management and development
Energy policies
Alma Mater:University of Cairo

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, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1990,[15] and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2001, and a Senior Fellow with the UN Foundation.[16] [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.

See also

References

  1. Web site: Transcript of oral history interview with Mohamed T. el-Ashry held on May 29 and 30, 2003 .
  2. Web site: United Nations Secretariat to the High Level Panel on System-wide Coherence . 2022-11-23 . www.un.org.
  3. Web site: El-Ashry Mohamed T. The AAS . 2022-11-23 . www.aasciences.africa.
  4. Web site: el-Ashry, Mohamed T. Archives . 2022-11-27 . oralhistory.worldbank.org.
  5. Web site: Environment . U. N. . 2019-08-22 . Dr. Mohamed El-Ashry . 2022-11-27 . Champions of the Earth . es.
  6. Web site: 2022-03-28 . Mohamed T. El-Ashry . 2022-11-23 . unfoundation.org . en-US.
  7. Book: Pollution, United States Congress Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Environmental . Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977: Fort Collins, Colo . 1977 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
  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 . 10.1080/02508060008686803 . 2000WatIn..25..115D . 56254270 . 0250-8060.
  9. Web site: https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19901942106 .
  10. Book: Serageldin . Ismail . 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 . Martin-Brown . Joan . 1999 . World Bank Publications . 978-0-8213-4265-7 . en.
  11. Book: Notification to EPA of Hazardous Waste Activities: Region 4 . 1980 . U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . en.
  12. News: 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 . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-11-27 . 0362-4331.
  13. Web site: 2015-11-05 . The Renewable Energy Era Has Already Started . 2022-11-27 . New Security Beat . en-US.
  14. El-Ashry . Mohamed T. . 2012 . National Policies to Promote Renewable Energy . Daedalus . 141 . 2 . 105–110 . 10.1162/DAED_a_00150 . 23240283 . 57563534 . 0011-5266. free .
  15. Web site: El-Ashry, Mohamed Taha . 2022-11-27 . TWAS . en.
  16. Web site: Mohamed T. El-Ashry Leaders WWF . 2022-11-23 . World Wildlife Fund . en.
  17. Web site: United Nations Secretariat to the High Level Panel on System-wide Coherence . 2022-11-27 . www.un.org.
  18. Web site: Mohamed T. El-Ashry . 2022-11-27 . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . en.

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