# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ismail-serageldin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:45.647Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ismail-serageldin"
name: "Ismail Serageldin"
slug: "ismail-serageldin"
description: "Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), the new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002, is currently, Emeritus Librarian, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria. He serves as Chair or Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions and civil society efforts, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the World Social Science Report for 2013 and 2016, as well as the UNESCO-supported World Water Scenarios (2013) and the executive council of the Encyclopedia of Life (2010) and Chairs the Executive Council of the World Digital Library (2010). He also co-chaired the African Union's high level panel for Biotechnology (2006) and again for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in 2012–2013, and was a member of the ICANN Panel for the review of the internet future (2013)."
tagline: "Egyptian academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Isma%C3%AFl_Serageldin%2C_2016_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  240
  category: null
totalFollowers: 881
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump