Mohamed H.A. HASSANPresident, Sudanese National Academy of Science (SNAS), Sudan

Mohamed H A Hassan is currently serving as President of the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences (SNAS) and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for International Development (ZEF), Germany.

Prior to that he served as President of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and Chairman of the Governing Council of the United Nations Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries.

 He also serves on a number of Boards of international organizations worldwide, including the Board of Directors of Grand Challenges Canada ( GCC ), the Board of Trustees of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt; the Council of Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, Japan and the Board of the International Science Programme, Sweden

 He was founding Executive Director of TWAS, President of the African Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Council of the United Nations University and Chairman of the Honorary Presidential Advisory Council for Science and Technology, Nigeria.

 Among his honours: Comendator, Grand Cross, and National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil; and Officer, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

He is a member of several merit-based academies of science, including, TWAS, the African Academy of Sciences; Islamic World Academy of Sciences; Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales; Académie Royale des Sciences p, Belgium; Pakistan Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences of Lebanon; Cuban Academy of Sciences; and academy of Sciences of South Africa