About Ismail Serageldin
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 serves as Chair or Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions and civil society efforts, 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 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).
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Awards & Honors
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Order of the Rising Sun
Order of Skanderbeg
Friendship Order
"Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu" Decoration
NAS Public Welfare Medal
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Knight of the Legion of Honour
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Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Jamnalal Bajaj Award
Nizami Ganjavi Gold Medal
Ring of Tolerance
honorary diploma of President of Azerbaijan Republic
honorary doctorate at the Laval University
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Science
Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences
honorary doctorate from University of Nantes
honorary doctorate from CNAM
