Dr. Ali Sayigh is Chairman and Founder of the World
Renewable Energy Congress and Council; Director General of World Renewable
Energy Network (WREN); Chairman and Founder of the Arab Solar Energy Society;
and Past Chairman of the UK Solar Energy Society. Dr. Sayigh was recently
elected to chair the Iraqi Energy Institute, and he actively consults on
renewable and sustainable energy issues for a number of international
organizations, including UNESCO, ISESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, & UNIDO. Dr. Sayigh
was Director of Solar Seminars at ICTP Trieste, Italy from 1977-1995; Professor
of Solar Energy at King Saud, Kuwait, and Reading Universities from 1969 to
1994, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire from 1994
to 2004. He was the founding expert in Renewable Energy at AOPEC. He is Fellow
of the Institute of Energy; Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers;
and Chartered Engineer. He has published more than 400 papers and has
contributed to and edited more than 30 books. He has been Editor and Editor in
Chief of several international journals including Renewable Energy and the
International Journal of Environmental Sciences and Technology and
Editor-in-Chief of the Major Reference Work, Comprehensive Renewable Energy.