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Ahmed Zewail
United States
Ahmed Zewail is the Linus Pauling
Chair professor of chemistry
and professor of physics at the
California Institute of Technology
(Caltech). For ten years, he was the
Director of the National Science
Foundation’s Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (LMS),
and is currently the Director of the Center for Physical
Biology at Caltech. He received his early education in
Egypt, and in the U.S. completed a Ph. D., from the
University of Pennsylvania, and a postdoctoral (IBM)
fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley,
before joining the faculty at Caltech. Dr. Zewail was
awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for his pioneering developments
in femtoscience, making possible observation
of phenomena in a millionth of a billionth of a second,
the scale of atomic motion. On April 27, 2009, President
Barack Obama appointed him to the President’s
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and
in November of the same year, he was named the first
United States Science Envoy to the Middle East. He
is an elected member of academies and learned societies,
including the American Philosophical Society, National
Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of London,
French Academy, Russian Academy, Chinese Academy,
and the Swedish Academy, and serves on national and
international boards for academic, cultural, and world
affairs.
Gates Foundation. His research has focused on the development
of quantitative imaging methods based on
CAT and MRI scanning to diagnose and treat cancer,
pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. He has 212
publications and holds eight patents. Dr. Zerhouni is a
member of the Board of Trustees of the King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology, opened in September
2009 in Saudi Arabia and of Khalifa University
in UAE.
Moneef R. Zou’bi
Jordan
Moneef Rafe’ Zou’bi has been
the director general of the Islamic
World Academy of Sciences in
Jordan since 1998. He has been
involved in scientific missions in
more than 50 countries and has
devoted all his energy to turning the IAS into an international
academy of sciences that is engaged in bridging
scientific and technological, development, and
even political divides between countries, cultures and
civilizations. He has written extensively on science and
technology topics, and has given lectures on such subjects
around the world. Zou’bi has also published over
40 papers, and edited and co-edited 10 books on topics
such as higher education, the environment, water
resources and transformational technologies. Prior to
his career at IAS, Zou’bi served in the Royal Corps of
Engineers in the Jordanian Armed Forces.
Elias Zerhouni
United States
Dr. Zerhouni received his medical
degree at the University of Algiers
School of Medicine before coming
to America. He completed his residency
at the John Hopkins School
of Medicine, where he later served
as a professor and Chairman of the Radiology Department.
Dr. Zerhouni has served as a consultant to the
White House and to the WHO. In 2002, Dr. Zerhouni
was appointed as the 15th Director of the National
Institute of Health. Under his leadership, the NIH
initiated the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, established
an NIH-wide research initiative to address
the obesity epidemic, and made health disparities a
research priority. He rejoined the faculty of John Hopkins
University in 2008, and became a Senior Fellow
in the Global Health program at the Bill and Melinda
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