Prof. Boshra Salem

Prof. Salem is full professor at the Department of Environmental sciences at the University of Alexandria, where she where she teaches and manages a remote sensing laboratory. Prof. Salem obtained her PhD from Imperial College London in remote sensing and GIS applications in the sustainable development of Egyptian deserts and obtained two post-doctoral studies in 1994 and 1996 from the University of London and the University of Maryland in GIS applications to arid lands and Biodiversity electronic databases respectively. She is president of a non-governmental organization dealing with the sustainable development of wildlife habitats and environmental problems. Prof. Salem has been on the International Advisory Committee of Biosphere Reserves for UNESCO and is currently on the International Jury for the Jawad Hussein Prize and the UNESCO Science Prize. She has contributed to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as one of the authors of the Desertification Synthesis Report.