Boshra Salem

Boshra Salem is a professor, founder and the Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt. She is president of Unesco's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) International Coordinating Council (ICC)

Education Boshra Salem was awarded her Ph.D. jointly by the University of Alexandria and Imperial College London in 1989. She studied land use in arid lands using remote sensing techniques. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of London (1994) and the University of Maryland (1996) she worked with computational tools and databases for geographic and environmental information management. She is team leader for Egypt's Omayed Biosphere Reserve project, which received the 1997 Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation for its work in Egypt's Western Desert. and has worked with Caroline King-Okumu and others on the Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands (SUMAMAD) project.

Awards 1990, UNESCO MAB Young Scientist Award, for "Detection of temporal environmental changes in arid lands by remote sensing. Case study: North coastal desert of Egypt" 1997, Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation, to the Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Alexandria (Egypt) for its work with the Omayed Biosphere Reserve 2009, UNESCO Young Scientists Awards: Michel Batisse grant for biosphere reserve management case studies 2013, Women in Science Hall of Fame, Embassy of the United States, Cairo, Egypt, to honor outstanding female scientists throughout the Middle East and North Africa