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Non-Resident Scholar Sarah El Battouty is a non-resident scholar at MEI. She is an award-winning architect with 18 years’ experience in the field of green and environmental building. Sarah is the founder of one of Egypt’s leading environmental design and auditing companies, ECOnsult, which has carried out the most certified energy-saving projects in Egypt. Her design work spans from Egypt and Italy to China and focuses on partnering with the private sector and government to implement green projects. In 2014 Sarah was appointed as a senior advisor to the Egyptian president focusing o...

A SENIOR aide to soon-to-be US President Joe Biden was once a university student in Sussex. Bill Russo said his time at the University of Sussex was "wonderful" and that he was "grateful" to those he met there. The senior Whitehouse aide graduated from Sussex with an Environment Development and Policy MA in 2010. From there, he went on to work as an intern for Joe Biden while he was Vice President. The internship turned into a fulltime job and he began working for the Vice President on President Obama’s National Security Council, and at the US Department of State.

Malaysia needs green new deal, say experts Tharanya Arumugam © Provided by New Straits Times Datuk Dr Ibrahim Komoo KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia needs an overarching green policy framework that cuts across ministries, sectors and industries to address the existing unsustainable practices that are threatening the planet and human health on an unprecedented scale. Environmental experts believe this is crucial to tackling the country's biggest problems, namely water pollution and the lack of ecological services, which emerged due to weak policies on nature conservation, industrial ...