Dr. Savaş Alpay, Senior Project Adviser
Savaş Alpay is the Director General of the Statistical, Economic & Social Research & Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), a subsidiary organ of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). He received his PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and has taught at different universities in Turkey. Formerly, he has worked as a consultant for an international consultancy firm and served on the Board of a Public Regulation Authority in Turkey. His research areas include environmental economics, trade and development economics, knowledge economics, science and technology policies in OIC Member Countries. His current research focuses on interactions among economic growth, international trade and the environment with an emphasis on the design and implementation of policies towards sustainable growth. His book titled “Trade and the Environment” has been published by Kluwer, and he has many articles published in different journals and conference proceedings. He also serves as a referee for many leading journals in the environmental economics field.
Ehsan Masood, Senior Project Adviser
Ehsan Masood, together with James Wilsdon, established and developed the Atlas of Islamic-World Science and Innovation (AIWSI), and acts as the lead project consultant. Over the past five years, Ehsan has acted as a freelance writer and editorial consultant with organisations such as the British Council, The African Union, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (the Library of Alexandria, Egypt), Nature Publishing Group, the Academy of Science for the Developing World, the Science and Development Network (www.sddev.net). the Lemelson Foundation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as Prospect magazine. In 2006, Ehsan was an author and editor of a special 16-page supplement in the journal Nature titled 'Islam and Science: Must the Muslim world stay science poor?'. From 2001 to May 2003, Ehsan was the Director of Communications at LEAD International in London, and prior to this was the Opinion Editor at New Scientist. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Science Communication from Birkbeck College, London, and a Graduate Diploma in Physics.
Dr. James Wilsdon, Senior Project Adviser
James Wilsdon is Director of the International Science Policy Centre at The Royal Society in London. He is a leading authority on science and innovation policy, and has advised governments, companies and NGOs in the UK and around the world. Formerly, he was Head of Science and Innovation at the think-tank Demos and a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University. From 2005 to 2008, he was Director of The Atlas of Ideas project at Demos. He has a first-class degree in philosophy and theology from Oxford University and a PhD in technology policy from Middlesex University. His publications include: The Atlas of Ideas: How Asian innovation can benefit us all (Demos, 2007); China: the next science superpower? (Demos 2007); Governing at the Nanoscale (Demos, 2006); The Public Value of Science (Demos 2005); See-through Science (Demos 2004); Digital Futures (Earthscan, 2001). James is an experienced public speaker and has lectured or presented in over twenty countries. He also writes for publications such as the Financial Times, Guardian, THES, Open Democracy, China Daily and Green Futures.
Dr. Razley Mohd. Nordin, Senior Project Adviser
Razley is the Director General of Science and Technology at the OIC, and has been instrumental in developing this project. Prior to taken up this role at the OIC, Razley was Director of Planning and International Relations at the Malaysian Institute of Nuclear Technology Research (MINT), a division of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in Malaysia. He has also held senior roles at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. Razley has led responsibility for this project within the OIC Secretariat, and will play a particular role in liaison with OIC institutions and member states, as well as securing the project's longer-term impacts and legacy.
Dr. Philip Campbell, Senior Project Adviser
Philip Campbell is Editor-in-Chief of Nature. His first degree was in aeronautical engineering, which he followed with an MSc in astrophysics at Queen Mary College London and a PhD in upper atmospheric physics at the University of Leicester. He joined Nature in 1979, becoming physical sciences editor in 1982. In 1988 Philip left Nature to become the founding editor of Physics World. He took up his present position in December 1995. Philip is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
