Cities of the Future

 Ismail Serageldin  

Valuation of Environmental and Cultural Benefits : Session 03

Valuation of Environmental and Cultural Benefits : Session 04

Valuation of Environmental and Cultural Benefits : Session 05

Valuation of Environmental and Cultural Benefits : Session 01

Valuation of Environmental and Cultural Benefits : Session 02

Global Challenges and the University of Tomorrow

Experiencing Alexandria - The City as Text and Context

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Opening Remarks at Club de Madrid – World Leadership Alliance Annual Conference, Brisbane, Australia

- Club de Madrid – World Leadership Alliance Annual Conference, Brisbane, Australia

It gives me great pleasure to address you with my own voice as a concerned citizen of the world, as the first chairman of the Youth Employment Summit/Youth For Environmental Sustainability or YES represented here by its founding and continuing driving force, Poonam Ahluwalia, and also as the Co-Chair of the Board of the NGIC, a platinum sponsor of this event… To share this podium with WimKok, the President of the Club de Madrid, and Clive Palmer, The SG of the World Leadership Alliance and the President of the World Economic Council.

Taming the Wild Markets: Steps Towards a Humane Globalization

- Remarks delivered at the Panel for “Synergies to Master the Global Crisis” at the “Dialogue and Cooperation for Change”-Eurasian Interdependencies on Overcoming the Crisis-3rd CGDC Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria

The recent crisis in the financial markets marks the end of an unprecedented era of naive belief that free capital flows and unfettered markets are the cure for all the world’s ills. That the private sector was going to solve all problems, if only governments would get out of the way, forgetting that monopolies, greed, and abuses of all kinds can occur if those entrusted with managing people’s money and assets are not supervised and held accountable for their actions.

African Students Graduation Cermony 2013

Climate Change and Sea Level Rising symposium Part 1

Climate Change and Sea Level Rising symposium Part 2

Building the Global Knowledge Society

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The Values of Science

- On receiving the Public Welfare Medal, Washington DC

It is with profound thanks and great humility that I stand before you today to accept this enormous honor you bestow upon me. I accept it as an invitation to redouble my efforts and to mobilize even more of my colleagues and compatriots in the cause of science. In that latter sense, it is a timely Award indeed.

Mobiliser le Savoir pour eradiquer la faim

 Ismail Serageldin  

Serageldin Awarded Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize

The Shape of Tomorrow - The Seven Pillars of the Knowledge Revolution and their Implications

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The Beauty of Our Dreams

- Opening Address at the Euromed Summit of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions

Welcome to the Library of Alexandria. Like its illustrious predecessor, the modern library aspires to be more than a meeting place for people of different cultures, but also to be a house of wisdom. I hope indeed that our deliberations will yield the kind of wisdom that we need so badly to confront our challenges today. These challenges, especially climate change, are perhaps greater than any we have faced since the end of the cold war.

One World: Is There an Emerging Global Civilization?

Excerpts from recordings made by Dr. Serageldin at the Salzburg Global Seminar's Board of Directors Meeting, June 2009.

Le Peuplement de la Méditerranée: Synthèse & Question D’Avenir

 Ismail Serageldin et Éric Crubezy  

Opening Address of the International Workshop on Evaluating Climate Change and Development

Statement on behalf of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

From Promises to Practice: A Call to Action

- Remarks at the Closing Session of the BioVision, Alexandria, Egypt

Under the banner of “From Promises to Practice” we met and we shared our knowledge and pooled our experience… and now, three days and 40 sessions later, reflecting on 150 presentations, and our countless discussions, what have we achieved?

Keynote: Success Stories in the DECs and Lessons for the Future

Water for a Growing Planet

 Ismail Serageldin & Ehsan Masood (Co-editors)    Download

Challenges of Managing Water Resources Sustainably: Solutions for the New Millennium based on Human Solidarity

I have been asked to address Cultural diversity. But before I sketch out some of these challenges and suggest some questions for our consideration, I want to bring in a viewpoint that has not been sufficiently heard in these proceedings to this moment.

Press Conference of Inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize

Changing Lives

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16^th Annual TWAS Conference Concluding Statement

- 16^th Annual TWAS Conference, Alexandria, Egypt

On behalf of myself and my colleagues at the BA we want to thank TWAS for having given us the possibility of welcoming you all on our premises, and to have shared these wonderful hours of thoughtful discussion and friendly camaraderie.

Governance, Competitiveness and the African Future

- Alexandria, Egypt

I have had the privilege of being friends with Dunstan Wai almost from the first day I met him. We were colleagues at the World Bank, but really started working in earnest together after the reorganization of 1987 brought the Africa region under the leadership of Kim Jaycox, with Dunstan as his assistant and myself as a director for a number of countries in west and central Africa.

Inauguration of the Anna Lindh Foundation

- Inaugural Ceremony of the Anna Lindh Foundation, Alexandria, Egypt

North Africa Regional Consultation Report

- Summing up a Lively Consultation on Africa, Alexandria, Egypt

We the representatives of the civil society of the five north African countries, meeting in Alexandria, Egypt from 14-16 December, 2004, would like to record our views, which we hope that the Commission on Africa will duly take into account and present to the G-8 and the EU. We are grateful to the organizers of this consultation for giving us this opportunity. We hereby record these views, and the three detailed statements prepared by our three working groups, hereby attached, should be considered an integral part of this report.

التنمية و القيم: مناقشات حرة لنخبة من خبراء البنك الدولي

 تأليف: ديفيد بينان- رامجوبال أجاراوالا سفن بيير ميستر- إسماعيل سراج الدين    Download

العمالة والتنمية: عمالة الشباب

 محسن يوسف و إسماعيل سراج الدين    Download

Biotechnology and Sustainable Development: Voices of the South and North

 Ismail Serageldin, Gabrielle Persley (Co-editors)    Download

قضايا المياه في العالم ( رؤية لقضايا المياه والحياة و البيئة) ، تقرير المفوضية الدولية للمياه للقرن الحادي و العشرين

 إسماعيل سراج الدين    Download

توفير الغذاء للفقراء: علم بروميثي

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Farewell to the World Bank

- At World Bank, 12^th Floor Gallery, Washington, DC, USA

It has finally happened. I speak for the last time as a member of the Staff of the World Bank. After 28 years, the time to move on has come.

I had thought to steal away quietly, with no fuss or fanfare, to fold my tent and go silently into that good night, a passageway to new horizons, to new adventures.

CGIAR Chairman’s Farewell Comments

- Dresden, Germany

I must confess to a certain sense of anticipation as I go out to meet my future. These are encouraging times for those of us who believe that the yesterdays of the human story can inspire great tomorrows. They are challenging times, for all of us who are committed to building new lives for the wretched of the earth, using science and technology as the instruments of change.

Education, Science and Values: Producers and Consumers in the New Knowledge Economy

- Address to the Association of Egyptian-American Scholars, Toronto, Canada

I am honored to have been invited here tonight to share with the Association of Egyptian-American Scholars the dreams of an Egyptian renaissance. Our dreams. More importantly the dreams that animate each and every one of the millions that identify themselves as Egyptian and Arab, for Egypt contributes mightily to the whole Arab world, and the world at large.

Promethean Science: Agricultural Biotechnology, the Environment, and the Poor

 Ismail Serageldin, Gabrielle Persley    Download

Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective

 Partha Dasgupta, Ismail Serageldin (Co-editors)    Download

Themes for the Third Millennium: The Challenge for Rural Sociology in an Urbanizing World. Keynote address to the Ninth World Congress of Rural Sociology in Bucharest, Romania

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Biotechnology and Biosafety

 Wanda Collins, Ismail Serageldin (Co-editors)    Download

Culture in Sustainable Development: Investing in Cultural and Natural Endowments. Proceedings of Conference on Sustainable Development, September 1998

 Ismail Serageldin, Joan Martin-Brown (Co-editors)    Download

Solidarity and the New World Order

- 40^th Anniversary of Misereo, Aachen, Germany

I am honored to be with you today, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Misereor, to celebrate the spirit of generosity and of commitment that characterizes the best of the human spirit. It is the spirit that should guide us as we deal with the challenges of the new millennium.

Strategic Water Resources Management: Towards the Millennium

- Commencement Address at The American University in Cairo

In the debate on managing the world’s finite natural resources, few issues have achieved the pre-eminence that water has. As an issue, water pervades society. It is critical for long-term economic development; for human health and social welfare, especially of the poor; and for environmental sustainability.

Partnerships for Global Ecosystem Management: Science, Economics and Law. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual World Bank Conference on ESSD

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The Formation of a Global Developmental Agenda - Extract from Boutros Boutros-Ghali Amicorum Discipulorumque Liber

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