Confirmed speakers are:

Welcome Address

Eva Åkesson,  The Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF)

Burton L.M. Mwamila, Vice Chancellor, NM-AIST

H. E. Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania

Lennarth Hjelmåker, Swedish Ambassador, Dar es Salaam

Carl-Henrik Heldin is the Director of the Uppsala Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and professor in Molecular Cell Biology at Uppsala University. He is also the Chair of the Board of the Nobel Foundation. His research interest is related to the molecular mechanisms of cellular growth control, and how such control mechanisms are perturbed in tumor development.

Keynotes

Catherine A. Odora Hoppers  is a UN expert in basic education, lifelong learning, information systems, science and society, disarmament, and on traditional knowledge and community intellectual property rights. In South Africa, she holds a South African Research Chair in Development Education at the University of South Africa. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

Zulmira Rodrigues is Head of the UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office and UNESCO Representative to the United Republic of Tanzania. She has over 15 years experience with support to the formulation and implementation of government education policies in different African countries, but especially in Mozambique. She has a broad experience in cooperation with state institutions, UN agencies and development partners.

Merle McOmbring-Hodges has approximately 30 years’ experience in Teacher Development at the institutions of UWC, UCT, Bellville College of Education, Peninsula Technikon and Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa. She participated in the British Council Curriculum Development project, namely the Science Education Project, through which various publications were produced to support teacher development in science education. President of IEASA 2010-2014: listed in 2014 as one ofthe Top 10 women in HE. Celebrated by EU as one of 5 women who made a difference in her Community (of HE). Joint Coordinator of Erasmus Mundus, EUROSA project.

Panelists

Aderemi Kuku is currently President of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and was President of the African Mathematical Union (AMU) 1986-95. He has over forty years of University teaching and research experience. He has been, among others, Professor of Mathematics, International Centre for Theoretical Physics , (ICTP) Trieste, Italy; Professor, Head of Mathematics, and Dean of Postgraduate School, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; William W. S. Claytor Endowed Professor of Mathematics, Grambling State University, Louisiana, USA .

Limbani Eliya Nsapato is the Regional Coordinator for Africa Network Campaign on Education for all (ANCEFA), based in Lusaka, Zambia. Since 2011 he has been actively involved in coordinating and representing civil society in regional and international platforms on the post 2015 education agenda. He is a member of the UNESCO-led Collective Consultation of NGOs on Education for All (CCNGO/EFA) Coordination Group and EFA Steering Committee, which are involved in organising the World Education Forum in Incheon, Korea in May 2015.

Ransford Bekoe serves as the primary focal point for university-private sector collaboration, and currently manages a graduate internship programme at the Secretariat of the Association of African Universities (AAU). His other areas of focus are HIV and AIDS management in African higher education institutions, and the environment. He contributed to the development of the first training modules on mainstreaming sustainability into university curricula in Africa initiated by UNEP in 2005.

 

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