Mohamed T. El-Ashry is Senior Fellow with the UN
Foundation. He served as Chief Executive Officer
and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) from July 1994 to July 2003. He also served
as Chairman of the GEF during its Pilot Phase (1991-1994).
Prior to joining the GEF he served as the Chief
Environmental Adviser to the President and Director
of the Environment Department at the World Bank,
as Senior Vice President of the World Resources
Institute (WRI), and as Director of Environmental
Quality with the Tennessee Valley Authority. He
has held teaching and research positions at Cairo
University, Pan-American-U.A.R. Oil Company, Illinois
Geological Survey, Wilkes University and the Environmental
Defense Fund. He has also served as Senior Environmental
Adviser to UNDP, as Special Adviser to the Secretary
General of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment
and Development (UNCED), and as a member of the
World Water Commission.
Dr. El-Ashry received his B.S. Degree with honors
in 1959 from the University of Cairo and Ph.D.
degree in Geology in 1966 from the University
of Illinois. He has received numerous international
awards and honors and is the author of three books
and more than 200 papers and articles.
Dr. El-Ashry is a
member of the International Task Force on Global
Public Goods and is a fellow of the Geological
Society of America and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He is a member
of the Third World and African Academies of Sciences
and is listed in American Men and Women of Science
and Men of Achievement. He has received a number
of honors and awards and serves on the Boards
of a number of not-for-profit organizations.
