Name:

Mohamed Hassan

Member Since:

July 18, 2006

Member Name:

Mohamed.hassan

Last Logged in:

July 18, 2006

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Dr. Mohamed H.A. Hassan is President of the African Academy of Sciences and Executive Director of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world). TWAS works in close collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), International Council for Science (ICSU), International Foundation for Science (IFS) and International Science Programme (ISP). Dr. Hassan is also Secretary General of the Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO), a non-governmental organization founded in 1988 by ministers of science and technology and higher education and heads of science academies and research councils in developing countries to promote science-based sustainable economic development in the South. Dr. Hassan holds a B.Sc. (Special Honours) in Mathematics from the University of Newcastle, UK, in 1968, a M.Sc. in Advanced Mathematics from the University of Oxford, in 1969 and a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Plasma Physics from the University of Oxford in 1974.