Mohamed T. El-Ashry

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.

Professor

Mohamed T. El-Ashry

FAAS FTWAS
Nationality Egypt
EducationUniversity of Cairo
University of Illinois
Scientific career
FieldsWater resource management
Environmental resource management and development
Energy policies
Institutions

Education

Mohamed T. El-Ashry obtained ha Bachelor of Science degree in 1959 from the University of Cairo, and a Master of Science in 1963 and PDoctor 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. "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. "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. doi:10.1080/02508060008686803. ISSN 0250-8060. S2CID 56254270.
  9. https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19901942106
  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. "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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