ISMAIL SERAGELDIN, B.S. (Cairo University), MRP (Harvard). Ph.D. (Harvard)
Ismail
Serageldin is the first Director of the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria
Egypt, a distinguished University Professor at Wageningen University,
the Netherlands and serves as chair and member of a number of advisory
committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions
and civil society efforts.
He has 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).
He has edited or authored over 45 books and monographs
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).