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Professor Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, President of Alexandria University, congratulated Dr. Manal Fawzy Ahmed, Chair of the Man and Biosphere (MAB) Committee of the Egyptian National Commission for UNESCO and former Head of the Environmental Sciences Department at the Faculty of Science, on the occasion of her selection among 12 experts in the International Advisory Committee for the International MAB Program of UNESCO, as of the first of January 2023, for a period of 4 years, in light of her contribution and expertise in the field of preserving biological diversity and biotechnology, wishing her success and progress.
It is noteworthy that UNESCO announced since 1971 the Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB), which is an international governmental scientific program that aims to lay the scientific foundations necessary to improve relations between population and the environment, in addition to adopting a research agenda that combines several scientific branches within the framework of natural sciences and social sciences, for the purposes of sustainable development, the use and conservation of biodiversity, and the improvement of connections at the global level between peoples and the environmental conditions surrounding them.