At the tenth anniversary meeting of of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum, Serageldin was keynote speaker at the plenary session on “Population and Resources”. The STS annual meeting is held on the first Sunday of October every year in Kyoto, Japan, and gathers top policymakers, business leaders, scientists, researchers, media leaders and Nobel laureates from all over the world, to address science and technology issues in the 21st century. Its aim is to build a human network, of a very broad a range of participants and organizations, that would, in time, resolve the new types of problems stemming from the application of science and technology. Serageldin is one of the forty founding members of the STS.
Serageldin also participated as keynote speaker at the Plenary Session on Knowledge-Action networks at the Regional Action on Climate Change (RACC) meeting. RACC meetings take place the day before the opening of the STS forum and deal with particular experiences of Knowledge-Action Networks in Africa and Europe, the Americas and Asia. This year’s topic for discussion was “Coastal Cities: risks from climate change and natural hazards”. The RACC was created in 2009 as an adjunct session to the STS forum to discuss the challenges climate change poses for governments, organizations and regions as they develop adaptation strategies. Serageldin is elected by the STS Council as member of the RCC Governing Board for the period January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015.