World Digital Library Experts Meeting
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
1 December 2006
Co-sponsored by UNESCO, the U.S. Mission to UNESCO, and the Library of Congress
List of Participants
Mr. Abdelaziz Abid
Senior Programme Specialist
UNESCO
Dr. Noha Adly
ICT/ISIS Director
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Dr. Mohamed Saber Ibrahim Arab
Chairman, The National Library & Archives of Egypt
Dr. Olga V. Barysheva
Head, Digital Technologies Department
The National Library of Russia
Ms. Caitlin Bergin
Public Affairs Officer
U.S. Mission to UNESCO
Dr. James H. Billington
Librarian of Congress
Library of Congress
Ms. Laura Campbell
Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives
Library of Congress
Ms. Susanna Connaughton
Executive Director
U.S. National Commission to UNESCO
Mr. Ian Desai
Intern
World Digital Library
United States
Ms. Lourdes Feria
Coordinator of Information Technologies
University of Colima, Mexico
Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn
Chair, Management & Technology
IFLA
The Honorable Robert S. Martin
Professor, School of Library & Information Studies
Texas Woman's University
Dr. Babak Hamidzadeh
Director, Technical Development
Library of Congress
Mr. Hans J. Jansen
Director, Research & Development
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands
Mr. Jean-Noël Jeanneney
President
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Mr. Abdul Waheed Khan
Assistant Director-General, Communication & Information
UNESCO
Dr. Galina Aleksandrovna Kislovskaya
Director of International Activities
The Russian State Library
Dr. Peter J. Lor
Secretary General
IFLA
Dr. Norbert Lossau
Director
Goettingen State and University Library, Germany
Dr. Claudia Lux
President Elect
IFLA
Mr. Daniel Malbert
Rapporteur, Intergovermental Council of Information for All Programme (IFAP), UNESCO
Ms. Teresa Malo de Molina
Directora Técnica
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Dr. Magdy Nagi
Head of ICT Sector
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Mr. Kjell G. Nilsson
Deputy National Librarian
National Library of Sweden
Mr. Kevin Novak
Director, Web Services
Library of Congress
The Honorable Louise Oliver
U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO
U.S. Mission to UNESCO
Mr. Dady Perdana Rachmananta
Director
National Library of Indonesia
Ms. Michelle Rago
Senior Information Architect
Library of Congress
Ms. Agnès Saal
Director General
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Mr. Lucien Scotti
Director, International Affairs
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Mr. Paolo Serra
Director, Division of Information Systems and Telecommunications, UNESCO
Dr. Sherif Kamel Shahin
Head
The National Library of Egypt
Mr. Tarek Shawki
Chief of Section, Information Society Division, UNESCO
Dr. Muniz Sodré de Araújo Cabral
Chairman
Brazilian National Library
Dr. Sarah E. Thomas
University Librarian
Cornell University
Dr. John Van Oudenaren
Senior Adviser for World Digital Library
Library of Congress
Dr. Alexander Ivanovich Visly
Director of Informatisation
The Russian State Library
Ms. Jacinta Were
Systems Librarian
University of Nairobi, Kenya
Ms. Donna Wilson
World Digital Library
Library of Congress
Dr. Vladimir N. Zaytsev
Director General
The National Library of Russia
Dr. Xiaolin Zhang
Director
Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences