Past President, African Academy of Sciences

Member, IAC Board

Mohamed Hassan is Co-Chair of the IAP: the global network of science academies, Executive Director of TWAS, Past President of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and Chairman of the Honorary Presidential Advisory Council for Science and Technology in Nigeria.

After obtaining his D.Phil. (University of Oxford, 1974), he returned to Sudan as professor and Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Khartoum. He was the 1985 TWAS Fellow in Mathematical Sciences. He received the Comendator (1996), Grand Cross (2005), and National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil; and Officer, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 2003.

Professor Hassan’s membership includes: Founding Fellow, AAS, 1985; Fellow, Islamic World Academy of Sciences, 1992; Honorary Member, Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 1996; Corresponding Member, Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, Belgium, 2001; and Foreign Fellow, Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 2002.