[CODATA-international] Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, will give a keynote presentation at CODATA 2017

[Asha CODATA]

The organisers and programme committee are very pleased to announce
that Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Founding Director of the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, will give a keynote presentation at the CODATA
2017 International Conference ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science’,
8-13 October, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

ISMAIL SERAGELDIN, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA),
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 co-Chair of the Nizami Ganjavi
International Center (NGIC), and serves on the Advisory Committee of the
World Social Science Report for 2013 and 2016, as well as the
UNESCO-supported World Water Scenarios (2013) and the executive council
of the Encyclopedia 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).

*Other confirmed keynotes are announced
<http://www.codata.org/news/182/62/Announcing-some-of-the-eminent-CODATA-2017-Keynote-Speakers>here
<http://www.codata.org/news/182/62/Announcing-some-of-the-eminent-CODATA-2017-Keynote-Speakers>*
and
on the conference website *http://codata2017.gcras.ru/
<http://codata2017.gcras.ru/>*

*Deadline for Session Proposals and Abstracts for Presentations, 28 July*

The deadline for to propose conference sessions and papers is now only one
week away 28 July: see *http://conference.codata.org/2017/
<http://conference.codata.org/2017/>*

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CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven
Research’, Saint-Petersburg, 8-13 October, Registration and Information:
http://codata2017.gcras.ru/

CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and
Data-Driven Research’, Now Accepting Proposals for Sessions and Papers:
http://conference.codata.org/2017/

What has CODATA delivered recently? See
the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement, 2015-2016
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165830

Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | http://www.codata.org

E-Mail: asha at codata.org
Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96

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