Executive Committee

The Executive Committee would be chaired by the PPD, Prof. Dr. M. Magdy Wahab.

Members of the Executive Committee shall include the NPD, Dr. Gilbert Rochon, the Project Co-Directors, Dr. Gülay Altay, Dr. Gamal Salah El Afandi and Dr. Okan Ersoy, as well as some primary end-users.

Detailed contact information can be obtained for each committee member under their respective links: Directors, Co-Directors, Advisors and End-Users.

CHAIR
Partner Country Project Director (PPD)
Prof. Dr. Magdy M. Abdel WAHAB
Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Astronomy & Meteorology,
Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

NATO Country Project Director (NPD)
Gilbert L. ROCHON, Ph.D., MPH
Director, Purdue Terrestrial Observatory
Chief Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Assoc. Vice President for Collaborative Research
Purdue University, Information Technology at Purdue (ITAP),
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Project Co-Director
Prof. Dr. Gülay ALTAY
Director, Kandilli Observatory & Earthquake Research Institute
Boğaziçi University,
Istanbul, Turkey

Project Co-Director
Dr. Gamal Salah EL AFANDI
Lecturer, Al Azhar University,
Faculty of Science Dept. of Astronomy & Meteorology,
Cairo, Egypt

Project Co-Director
Okan K. ERSOY, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical/Computer Engineering,
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana, USA

Project End-User
Prof. Dr. Mortada Mourad El-Aref
Director, BCRC-Egypt Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training & Technology Transfer for Arab States
Cairo University Center for Environmental Hazard Mitigation (CEHM)
Cairo, Egypt

Prof. Emeritus Dr. Atef Sherif
Major Field: Aerodynamics
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Cairo University
Former Chairman, National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt

Project End-User
Prof. Dr. Mostafa M. Emara
Director Science Center for Detection & Remediation of Environmental Hazards (SCDREH)
Al Azhar University, Nasr City, Egypt

Project End-User
Mr. Eng.Belal M. El Leithy
Executive Manager, Earth Observation Ground Receiving Station
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS)
Cairo, Egypt