Dr Hosny El-Lakany

Member, Board of Trustees
Egypt
Joined August 2008

Dr. M. Hosny El-Lakany, Dr. M. Hosny El-Lakany, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr El-Lakany holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture and a M.Sc. in Forestry (University of Alexandria, Egypt); a Ph.D. in Forestry (University of British Columbia), and was awarded a DSc honoris causa (Laval University, Canada).

He began his professional career as an instructor in horticulture, then in forestry at Alexandria University, Egypt. He studied and practiced Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding in Canada and became a professor of Forestry and subsequently Chairman of the Forestry Department at the University of Alexandria, then served as Director of the Desert Development Centre of the American University in Cairo. Dr. El-Lakany was a member of a task force to incorporate forestry into the CGIAR system (1987-1988), that has led to the establishment of CIFOR. He served on the CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee, TAC (1992-1996).

In 1995, Dr. El-Lakany joined FAO as Assistant Directeur de Cabinet and was appointed Assistant Director-General of FAO/ Head of the Forestry Department in 1998 until his retirement. Dr El-Lakany returned to UBC in January, 2006 as Adjunct Professor, teaching and supervising research in International Forestry Policy as well as directing the International Forestry Programme.

He was awarded the IDRC Professional Development Award (1980-1981), and Distinguished World Agroforestry Fellow, ICRAF (2007). He is a member of several scientific and professional bodies including the Canadian Institute of Forestry, the Governing Council of the Commonwealth Forestry Association, the World Bank External Advisory Group on the Forest Strategy, the Board of Trustees of CIFOR, and International Advisory Committee of the Model Forest Network. Dr El-Lakany currently chairs the International Partnership for Forestry Education (IPFE).