Sandra Adong Oder
Sandra Adong Oder, Ag. Head, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development Unit & African Union Centre for Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development Governance and Conflict Prevention Directorate Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security African Union Commission.
Philip Attuquayefio
Philip Attuquayefio coordinates the African Union Commission’s support for the implementation of the Lake Chad Basin Stabilization Strategy. Prior to joining the African Union Commission as a seconded staff from NORCAP, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy at the University of Ghana, Legon. Philip has extensive […]
Martin Kimani
H.E. Mr. Martin Kimani, PhD, EBS, is Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York, with the rank of Ambassador/Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Prior to his appointment, he served as the President’s Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism and the Director of Kenya’s National Counter Terrorism Centre. He has also previously served as Ambassador Extraordinary […]
Al-Hamndou Dorsouma
Al-Hamndou Dorsouma is currently the Ag. Director and Manager for Climate and Green Growth within the African Development Bank. He is responsible for managing a team of Climate Change/Growth and Climate Finance Officers and leading Bank’s efforts on climate change and green across Africa. Prior to this, Mr. Dorsouma worked as Officer-In-Charge of the Bank’s […]
Yero Baldeh
Dr. Yero Baldeh has over 24 years of professional experience, 17 of which with the African Development Bank. He is currently the Director of the Transition States Coordination Office at the African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Prior to this, he was the Country Manager for Ghana, Manager, Lead Coordinator of the Transition States Coordination […]
Rob Davies
Rob Davies retired in 2019 after serving for a decade as South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry. He was elected as a Member of Parliament in the first democratic election in 1994. Before that he held professorship at the University of the Western Cape and was professor auxiliar at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, […]
Lily Odarno
Dr Lily Odarno is the Director of Clean Air Task Force’s (CATF) Energy and Climate Innovation Program, Africa. She leads CATF’s effort to address the dual need of expanding affordable energy in developing economies and building a global decarbonized energy system. Her work focuses on development-centric energy transition pathways, utility markets, and technology innovation for […]
Nicholas Westcott
BA, MA and PhD (1982) from Cambridge University in History and African History. Publications on Africa and the Second World War and international relations. British and European diplomat 1982-2017. Currently also Director of the Royal African Society. Author of ‘Imperialism and Development: the East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy’ (James Currey, 2020). Tweets: @NickWestcottRAS
Saliem Fakir
Prior to establishing the African Climate Foundation, Saliem served as the Head of the Policy & Futures Unit of WWF South Africa for 11 years. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Planning and an Associate Director for the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy at Stellenbosch University. […]
Victor Ongoma
Victor is a meteorologist with specialty in climatology and climate change. He holds a PhD (Meteorology) from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China, attained in 2017. His PhD thesis focused on variability of extreme climate events over East Africa. Victor earned his MSc and BSc (Meteorology) from the University of Nairobi in Kenya […]