ECO Excellence Awards 2004

12 September  2004

PRESS RELEASE

The Council of Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization in its 14th meeting today approved grant of ECO Excellence Awards 2004 to the nationals of the ECO Member States. The awards would be given to the winners during the 8th ECO Summit Meeting on 14 September, 2004 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

The objective of the ECO Awards is to reward outstanding research work and/or achievement from the Member States in the fields which should preferably have regional character with special emphasis on the contribution to the ECO's goals and objectives. According to the Modalities approved by the ECO Council of Ministers, the awards are given in the fields (a) Economics, (b) History, culture, literature and fine arts, (c) Science and Technology, (d) Education, and (e) Agriculture and Environment.

The ECO A wards are granted biannually on the occasion of ECO Summit Meetings to the winners nominated by the member states. The ECO Awards Selection Committee comprising experts of each member state selects the candidates nominated by the member states.

Awards will be given to the nine wiIU1ers in the field of economics (one award), history, culture, literature and fine arts (one award), Science and Tec1ulology (four awards), education (one award) and agriculture and environment (two awards).

The brief profile of these award winners is as follows:

Professor Shah Mohammad Maiwandi from the transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan will receive award in the field of science and technology. He did Ph.D. from the University of Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia. He is Chief Researcher and the Presidential Encyclopedic Center. He has 29 scientific literary works on different subjects.

Dr. S. Ahmad Reza Jalali Naini from the Islamic Republic of Iran will receive award in the field of economics. He is Ph.D (Economics) from the University of Kent, Canterbury. He is Director of Center for Monetary Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Senior Adviser and Director of Financial and Energy Markets Department, International Institute for Energy Studies Tehran.

He served as Chairman of the Department of Economics at the Institute for Studies in Management and Planning from 2000 to April 2004. He also served at various positions such as Adviser at the Institute for Banking, Tehran, Member of the Scientific Council, Central Bank of Iran and Director of Foreign Exchange Research, The Monetary and Banking Research Institute, Tehran etc. He has written Research Papers and Publications in the field of Economics.

Mr. Arif Mir Djalal oglu Pashayev from the Republic of Azerbaijan will receive award in the field of science and technology. He received scientific degree of the doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1978.

The basic directions of scientific works of Mr. Pashaev are physics and techniques of semiconductors. He has created scientific bases of studying of substances with application of electromagnetic waves of high and ultrahigh frequencies. The methods created by him and devices were applied with success in aviation industry, mechanical engineering and shipbuilding etc. He is the author of more than 15 books and monographies and more than 300 scientific articles.

Mr. Mukhtarbai Otelbaev from the Republic of Kazakhstan will receive award in the field of science and technology. He is a member of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, doctor of physics-mathematical sciences, professor. He defended his candidate dissertation in 1972 and doctoral in 1978.

Mr. Otelbayev' s range of interests includes spectral theory of differential operators with non-smooth coefficients, theory of functional classes, general theory of boundary value problems, separability theory and integral operators. He contributed in the development of mathematics, for which he was awarded to The prize of the Department of physics-mathematical sciences of AS of USSR in 1990. He published 200 scientific papers and monographs. He is a member of several specialized Councils on defence of doctoral thesis.

Prof. Mrs. Mayram Akaeva, First Lady of tile Kyrgyz Republic will receive award in the field of education. She has professional background of Leningrad Institute of Textile and Light Industry (St. Petersburg), Frunze Poly-technical Institute, and Kyrgyz State National University .

At the initiative of Prof. Mrs. Mairam Akaeva several programs have been implemented in Kyrgyz Republic. Some of them are: Children's educational museum in Bishkek, 52 educational centers, Youth Center for development of orphan children, Social Center for Children-invalids, "Support of rural women through micro-crediting", "Support of rural libraries" etc.

Prof. Mrs. Mayram Akaeva is an author of more than 30 books/publications. Her famous books are "Starts of Science", "Archimed and others", and "A hope has not nights".

Mr. Enver Saijad from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan will receive award in the field of history, culture, literature and fine arts. He completed his education from Liverpool University, England in 1965. He received President of Pakistan A ward Pride of Performance in Literature in 1989. He served as Visiting Professor in Pakistan National College of Arts and University of the Punjab, Lahore-Pakistan. He produced and directed innumerable plays for stage, radio and television since 1958.

He is widely acclaimed and regarded by renowned critics as "The Architect of Modem Urdu Fiction, translated in major foreign languages and is included in major anthologies. He has a vast experience of performing arts at stage, radio and television. He is Head of Script and Creative Writing Department, OEO Television Network, Pakistan. Mr. Enver Sajjad has written 14 publications (Novel, short stories and anthology of poetry etc).

Mr. Bobo Sanginov from The Republic of Tajikistan will receive award in tile field of agriculture and environment. He is President of the Agrarian Academy of the Republic of Tajikistan. He did his M. Sc. (Soil Agronomy) from the Agrarian University of Tajikistan and Ph.D. from the National Academy of Sciences in Breeding of Long Stable Cotton Varieties.

Pollution & disease and cotton plant breeding are his areas of specialization. He has professional affiliations witl1 the Tajik Agrarian Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. He developed 13 cotton varieties. He published more than 200 publications, mainly in Russian language. He got A ward of Lenin Komsomol and State A ward named after Avisenna.

Prof. Dr. Aysel Atimtay from the Republic of Turkey will receive award in the field of agriculture and environment. She did her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Hacettepe University, Ankara and Post Doctoral Studies from the University of Cambridge. She served at various positions such as Research Engineer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor. Professor and Head of the Environmental Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

Prof. Atimtay works in the area of "Energy and Environment" within the field of Environmental Engineering. She is specialized in "Air Pollution Assessment and Control" from various combustion systems. She also works on the sorbent development for adsorption of Hydrogen Sulfide from coal gas or from industrial waste gases. She has more than 100 articles and publications.

Mr. Bekhzod Yuldashev from the Republic of Uzbekistan will receive award in the field of science and technology. He is the President of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and Director General of the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences.

He served as Scientist, Head of the Laboratory, Corresponding Member, Head of Nuclear Department and Academician ac the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. He was awarded State Order "Shukhrat" in 2003 and State Prize for Science and Technology in 1983. He has more than 250 articles including publications in foreign scientific magazines.

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