BRIEF - BIOGRAPHYOF PANELISTS

STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONALCAPACITIES FOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT

IN POST-COVID-19 AFRICA

A BRAINSTORMING E-POLICY SEMINAR

Prof. Osagie Imasogie, Senior Managing Partner & Founder

PIPV Capital, USA

Prof. Banji Oyelaran-OyeyinkaSenior Special Adviser

African Development Bank (AfDB)

Prof. Soji Adelaja. Michigan State University, USA

Dr. Rabah ArezkiChief Economist and Vice President,

ECVP, African Development Bank

Prof. Vincent Nmehielle, Secretary General

African Development Bank

Prof. Kevin Chika Urama, FAASSenior Director, African Development Institute, African Development Bank

Prof. Sharon Fonn, PhD, Full professor, University of

the Witwatersrand. South Africa

Prof. Ibrahim Elbadawi Managing Director,

Economic Research Forum, Egypt

Prof. Alex Ezeh Dornsife Professor of Global

Health, Drexel University, USA

Ryuichi Kato, Vice President Japan International

Cooperation Agency, Japan

Mr. Nick Lea, Deputy Chief Economist.

UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). UK

Hafez Ghanem, Vice President for Eastern and

Southern Africa,World Bank Group. USA

Hon. Seth Terkper Former Finance Minister, Ghana

Accra, Ghana

Dr. Martin Ledolter, LL.M. Managing Director Austrian

Development Agency. Austria

Dr. Aloysius Uche Ordu Director - Africa Growth Initiative,

Brookings Institute, USA

Stephanie Springorum Senior Project Manager

GIZ , Germany

Mr. Dana Hovig. Program Director of Global

Development and Population Hewlett Foundation. Canada

Prof. Osagie Imasogie, Senior Managing Partner & Founder

PIPV Capital, USA

Sir Jeremy FarrarDirector, Wellcome Trust,

United Kingdom

Prof. Daya ReddyPresident, International

Science Council. Paris, France

Dr. Isayvani NaickerDirector of Strategy and

Partnerships African Academyof Sciences. Kenya

Ms. Margaret Mliwa, Acting Regional Director,Office of Eastern Africa

Ford Foundation, Kenya.

Prof. Njuguna Ndung'uExecutive Director African

Economic Research Consortium,Kenya

Prof. Emmanuel Nnadozie Executive Secretary, African

Capacity Building Foundation , Zimbabwe

Prof. Etienne Ehouan Ehile,Secretary-General, Associationof African Universities. Ghana

Dr. Aldo Stroebel, Executive DirectorStrategy, Planning and Partnerships

National Research Foundation, South Africa

Prof. Goolam Mohamedbhai Honorary president of InternationalAssociation of Universities. Mauritius

Prof. Moses Kiggundu Distinguished Research Professor

Carleton University. Canada

Dr. Max Price Emeritus Vice-Chancellor

University of Cape Town South Africa

Prof. Gunnar Köhlin,Director Environment

a Development Initiative. University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Mr. Robert EissSenior Advisor on Policy NIH

Forgaty International Center, USA

Prof. Zeblon VilakaziVice Chancellor, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Prof. Thomas JayneSpecial Advisor-President African

Development Bank. Michigan State University, USA

Ashiwel Undieh, PhDProfessor of Neuroscience and

Pharmacology, City University of New York School of Medicine, USA

Dr. Paulin BasingaThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Director, Health, Africa, USA

Abdoulaye COULIBALYDirector, Governance and Public

Financial Management, African Development Bank

Dr. Simon KayHead International Operations

Wellcome. United Kingdom

Dr. Arjan de Haan, Senior Program Specialist,

Sustainable Inclusive Economies, IDRC, Canada

Tade Akin Aina Head of Research

Mastercard Foundation. USA

Mohammed ALSHAMMARI, Senior Specialist, Operations,Saudi Fund for Development

(SFD) Saudi Arabia

Prof. Ernest AryeeteySecretary-General, The AfricanResearch Universities Alliance,

South Africa

Mr. David Doepel, Murdoch University Chair

Africa-Australia Research Forum, Perth, Western Australia

Dr. Nkem KhumbahSenior Fellow, Global Federation

of Competitiveness Councils. USA

Dr. Hanan Morsy, Director, Macro-Economics Policy,

Forecasting and Research African Development Bank

Dr. Swithin J. Munyantwali, Esq.Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of

the International Law InstituteAfrican Centre for Legal Excellence

Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Executive Director, African

Population & Health Research Center Nairobi, Kenya

Prof. David MorrisonDeputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation),

Murdoch UniversityAustralia

Prof. Jonathan Mba Director of Research & Academic

lanning, AAU, Ghana

Mr. Bakary KoneDirector Strategic Planning

and Partnership ACBF. Zimbabwe

Dr Uzma Alm Alliance for Accelerating

Excellence in Science in Africa(AESA) African Academy

of Sciences. Kenya

Prof. Pascale AlloteyDirector United Nations University International Institute for Global

Health Malaysia

Prof. Justice Nyigmah BawoleDean, University of Ghana

Business School, Ghana

Prof. Amany El-Sharif Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy,

AlAzhar University, Cairo, Egypt Coordinator, AAU-NARO

Prof. Christian Happi Director African Centre

of Excellencefor Genomics ofInfectious Diseases (ACEGID), Nigeria

Dr. Joseph Wangombe GichuruDeputy Executive Director African

Population & Health Research Center, Kenya

Ms. Elodie Rusera Chief Skills Officer, Rwanda `

Development Board. Rwanda

Dr. Baldeh, Yero Director, Transition States

Coordination Office, African Development Bank

Mr Jonathan SaidHead of Economic Transformation,

Africa Tony Blair Institute. USA

Prof. Kelly Chibale Professor, University of Cape Town

South Africa

Prof. John Ele-Ojo AtagubaPartnership for Economic

Policy (PEP) University of CapeTown. South Africa

Prof. Ihron Rensburg Vaal University of Technology

South Africa

Dr. Flaubert MbiekopSenior Program Specialist. IDRC,

Canada

Dr. Ash Shah Global Development Senior

Program Officer. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. USA

Ms. Valerie Dabady Manager, Resource Mobilization and External Finance. African

Development Bank. Cote D’Ivoire

Ms. Eden Getachew Head of Centre of Governmentand Delivery Tony Blair Institute

Nairobi, Kenya

Ms. Susan Steffen, Executive Director

Pan-Africa and Regional DevelopmentDivision, Global Affairs Canada.

Frank MVULA, DirectorFiduciary and Inspection

Department African DevelopmentBank Group

Côte d’Ivoire

Annie O’BrienDornsife School of Public Health,

Drexel University, USA

Hassan MoctarChief Procurement Policy officer

Fiduciary and Inspection DepartmentAfrican Development Bank

Dr. Ibrahim L. Stevens Deputy Governor, Bank ofSierra Leone. The Republic of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone

Dr. Stephen N. Karingi,Director, Regional Integration and

Trade Division UNECA (Central Africa Office)

Ethiopia

Prof. Peter Quartey, Director ISSER/University of Ghana

Accra, Ghana

Dr. Eric K. Ogunleye,Advisor to the Chief Economist and Vice President, ECVP , OI

Manager, Policy Management Division, ADI African Development Bank

Dr. Njeri Wabĩri Consultant- Public Service

delivery Index. African Development Institute, African

Development Bank

Mr. Nkoanyane SebutsoeSenior Capacity DevelopmentOfficer African Development

Institute, African Development Bank

Mrs. Kwamina-Badirou Kamaria Team Assistant for the Policy

Management Division African Development Institute, African

Development Bank

Adewale Alade SHOBOYEJO Training Technician,

African Development Institute. African Development Bank

African Development InstituteGlobal Community of Practice- Team