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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">The organisers and programme committee are very pleased to announce that Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Founding Director
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:top"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Alexandrina"><span style="color:#3B663C;text-decoration:none">ISMAIL
SERAGELDIN</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">, Founding Director of the </span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="https://www.bibalex.org/en/default"><span style="color:#3B663C;text-decoration:none">Bibliotheca
Alexandrina (BA)</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">, the new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002, is currently, Emeritus Librarian, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Library
of Alexandria. He is advisor to the Egyptian Prime Minister in matters concerning culture, science, and museums. He serves as Chair and Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions, including as
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of Life (2010) and Chairs the Executive Council of the World Digital Library (2010). He has held many international positions including as Vice President of the World Bank (1993–2000). He also co-chaired the African Union’s high level panel for Biotechnology
(2006) and again for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in 2012-2013, and was a member of the ICANN Panel for the review of the internet future (2013). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.codata.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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