Mohamed H. A. Hassan

Professor Hassan was Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for International Development (ZEF), Germany; Chairman of the Governing Council of the United Nations Technology Bank, Turkey. President of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP); founding Executive Director  and President of (TWAS); President of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC); Chairman of the Council of the United Nations University (UNU). He has a Doctorate degree in Mathematics from Oxford University and was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics in Khartoum University. Among his honours: Comendator, Grand Cross, and National Order of Scientific Merit,  Brazil ; and Officer, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.