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President-Elect conferred honorary fellowship

ICSU President-Elect was conferred an honorary fellowship by Academy of Sciences Malaysia

Professor Yuan-Tseh Lee, the ICSU President-Elect, was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) for his distinguished contributions to science, in a conferment ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on 28 June 2011. Professor Lee was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1986 for his work in chemical dynamics. Lee was President of Academia Sinica and since returning to China Taiwan in 1994 had helped establish several foundations, institutes and programmes that promote higher education and scientific research.

Lee actively contributes to the development of the ASM and has shared his thoughts on science and its development in public lectures and dialogues in Malaysia since 1998. He is a member of the review panel of the ASM's Mahathir Science Award and has been on the International Advisory Council of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman since 2002.

There are just five Honorary Fellows of the ASM consisting of two former Prime Ministers of Malaysia Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, and Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, one other Nobel laureate Professor Ahmed Zeweil of the California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech), and the former Minister of Science, Technology and Environment Tan Sri Law Hieng Ding.

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