MOHAMED FATHI TAHA, Diplomat, Official. President & Member, Executive Committee, World Meteorological Organization; Under Secretary of State, Egypt. Order of Merit, Egypt, 54. Union of Scientific Workers, Egypt.; several Sports Clubs.
Education
Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, 1930-1934, Bachelor of Science Physics. Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, 1937-1938, Diploma of Membership of the Imperial College of Science and Technology Meteorology. Spoken languages: Arabic, English.
Career
President & Member, Executive Committee, World Meteorological Organization. Under Secretary of State, Egypt. Chairman, Board of Directors, Egyptian Meteorological Authority since 1971.
President, Permanent Meteorological Committee, League of Arab States, since 1971. Chairman, National Committee on Geodesy & Geophysics, Academy of Sciences, Cairo, 1967. Member, Outer Space Exploration Committee, Academy of Sciences, 1967.
Second V President, Executive Committee, World Meteorological Organization, 1959-1963, Member, 1955-1959. V President, World Meteorological Organization Reg Commission for Africa, 1947. External Lecturer, Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, 1942-1944.
Membership
Union of Scientific Workers, Egypt. Several Sports Clubs.