MOHAMED FATHI TAHA Past Director of Egypt Meteorology Authority Organization

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MOHAMED FATHI TAHA

Egypt, Executive Committee, President & Member, Under Secretary of State, World Meteorological Organization

Born January 15, 1914

Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Nationality

Egyptian

Award

• Order of Merit, Egypt, 1954.

Education

• Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, 1930-1934, Bachelor of Science Physics; Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, 1937-1938, Diploma of Membership of the Imperial College of Science and Technology Meteorology; spoken languages: Arabic, English

Career

• President & Member, Executive Committee, World Meteorological Organization. Under Secretary of State, Egypt. Chairman, Board of Directors, Egyptian Meteorological Authority since 1971.
  
  President, Permanent Meteorological Committee, League of Arab States, since 1971. Chairman, National Committee on Geodesy & Geophysics, Academy of Sciences, Cairo, 1967. Member, Outer Space Exploration Committee, Academy of Sciences, 1967.
  
  Second V President, Executive Committee, World Meteorological Organization, 1959-1963, Member, 1955-1959. V President, World Meteorological Organization Reg Commission for Africa, 1947. External Lecturer, Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, 1942-1944.

Works

• Climates of the Near East. Climate & Meteorology North of the Tropic of Cancer, 1960.

Membership

• Union of Scientific Workers, Egypt.; several Sports Clubs.

Personality

Interests

Aeronautical meteorology. Light sports & games.

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CHy-V |1976 - 1980

• President: Mr Robert Clark(Canada)
• Vice-President: Mr Nathaniel Popoola (Nigeria)
• Report of the session: WMO-No. 453
• Place of the session: Ottawa, Canada, 5-16 July 1976
• President of WMO: Mr Mohamed Fathi Taha 
• Secretary-General of WMO:Sir Arthur Davies 
• Director within the Secretariat:Prof. Jerry Nem

CHy-IV |1972 - 1976

• President: Mr Eugene Popov (USSR)
• Vice-President: Mr Robert Clark (Canada)
• Report of the session: WMO-No. 330
• Place of the session: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3-17 April 1972
  • President of WMO: Mr Mohamed Fathi Taha 
  • Secretary-General of WMO:Sir Arthur Davies 
  • Director within the Secretariat:Prof. Jerry Nemec

CHy-III |1968 - 1972

• President: Mr Eugene Popov (USSR)
• Vice-President: Mr Jean A. Rodier (France)
• Report of the session: WMO-No. 239, RP, 79
• Place of the session: Geneva, 9-21 September 1968
  • President of WMO: Mr Alf Nyberg and Mr Mohamed Fathi Taha 
  • Secretary-General of WMO:Sir Arthur Davies 
  • Director within the Secretariat:Prof. Jerry Nemec

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WMO Celebrates Centenary of World Co-operation in Meteorology

In observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the First Meteorological Congress, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) sponsored an official ceremony here at the Swiss Federal Councillor Hans Peter Tschudi. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Tschudi, Mohammed Fathi Taha, President of WMO; David Arthur Davies, Secretary-General of WMO; and Vittorio Winspeare Guicciari, Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva, who delivered a message from UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.

General view of the ceremony

10 September 1973

Geneva, Switzerland

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Except for the ·former Commissions for Climatology, Hydrometeorology and , to some extent, Synoptic Meteorology, which have been modified to become respectively Mr. M. F . Taha, newlyelected President of WMO , during the session of the Executive Committee following the Sixth WMO Congress the Commission for Special Applications of Meteorology and ClimatoJogy, the Commission for Hydrology and the Commission for Basic Systems, the functions of the technical commissions have not undergone considerable changes, nor have their· names been changed significantly. Congress decided that it was logical for the presidents and vice-presidents to continue to act in their present capacities.

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