Featured Speakers

Dr. Monty P. Jones (Ghana)
Executive Director of Forum on Agricultural Research in Africa
Recipient of the 2004 World Food Prize
Meeting the Challenges to Food Security and Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture in Africa

Dr. Jon Lovett (U.K.)
Director of the Centre of Ecology Law and Policy
University of York
Climate Change and Society in Africa

Dr. Pius Yanda (Tanzania)
Director of the Centre for Resource Assessment
University of Dar es Salaam
Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation Challenges and the Way Forward

Dr. Robert Scholes (South Africa)
Leader, Ecosystem Processes and Dynamics Research
Fellow of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
African Savannas in a Changing World

Dr. Porter Lowry (France)
Research Associate, Museum National d’Historie Naturalle, Paris
Head of Africa and Madagascar Studies, Missouri Botanical Gardens, USA
Can the imperatives of environmmental conservation and sustainable economic development be reconciled? Lessons from Madagascar, a Globally Important Biodiversity Hotspot

Dr. Niall Hanan (USA)
Professor, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University

Dr. Garth Myers (USA)
Professor, African Studies, University of Kansas
Sustainability and Justice in African Urbanization

Dr. Tony Addison (UK)
Executive Director, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester
Making Peace Work in Africa: How to Establish Peace and Prosperity in Africa

Dr. Kostas Stamoulis (Rome, Italy)
Chief Economist, FAO Agricultural and Development Economics Division
The Challenge of Policy Coherence: Investment and Social Protection for Food Security and Agricultural Growth in Africa

Dr. Elizabeth Asiedu (USA)
University of Kansas
The Socioeconomic Determinants of HIV: Evidence from Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland and Zimbabwe

Dr. Robert Brent (USA)
Fordnam University, Department of Economics
Education and HIV-AID Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

List will be updated as more speakers are announced.