Participants

The Grantees Meeting provides an exchange platform for over 100 scientists from over 20 different countries in Africa and Europe, working together in 12 inter- and transdiciplinary projects on natural resource management in Africa.

A complete list of participants is available here: [List of Participants]

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dr. Herbert H.T. Prins, Wageningen UR

http://www.reg.wur.nl/UK/Staff/Prins/

Herbert Prins is full professor in Resource Ecology at Wageningen since 1991 and is Chairman of the Graduate School "Production Ecology & Resource Conservation". He has represented The Netherlands and the European Union at meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity, is board member of the European Tropical Biology Association, Netherlands Nature Conservancy, the Van Tienhoven Foundation, the Netherlands Committee for International Nature Conservation and others. He previously held positions as research fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Tanzania, as parks research management specialist for the World Bank in Indonesia, and as research fellow for the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical research in Tanzania. He is member of several IUCN Commissions and committees, and of the Machakos Wildlife Forum in Kenya. He is Officer in the Order of the Golden Ark and in the Order of Oranje Nassau.

Prof. Dr. Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, University of Khartoum

http://staffcv.uofk.edu/Economic/dept-of-sociology/prof.AbdelGaffar/

Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed is research professor of Development Studies at the Ahfad University for Women since 2006 and - together with Dr. Gunnar Sorbo (Director CMI, Bergen, Norway) - coordinates the micro-macro issues in peace building in Sudan. He previously held the position of a professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at University of Bergen, Norway and worked as consultant to national and international organizations such as UNESCO, ISNAR, UNFPA, UNDP, NORAD, IDRC, UNOPS and AADO. Recently he carried out an evaluation of centers such as Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI, 2000), Ethiopia and the Research School for Resource Studies for Development (CERES), the Netherlands. Prof. Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed served on the scientific committee of the UNESCO initiated Comparative Research on Poverty (CROP) and the Advisory Committee of the MEAward of the Population Council, Cairo, Egypt. He is a member of the UNESCO team of the Initiative for the Horn of Africa 2015.

Organisational Staff