Presidential Panel Speakers

H.E. President Macky Sall | President of the Republic of Senegal

H.E. President Paul Kagame | President of Rwanda

Minister Lacine Daoudi | Minister of Higher Education and Research, Kingdom of Morocco

Minister Jacques Fame Ndongo | Minister of Higher Education, Cameroon

Minister Ogbonnaya Onu | Minister of Science and Technology, Nigeria

Minister Abiy Ahmed | Minister of Science and Technology, Ethiopia

 

 

Plenary Panel Speakers

Cédric Villani | Director of Institut Henri Poincaré

Howard Alper | Distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottawa

Solomon Assefa | Director of IBM Research – Africa

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon | President of the European Research Council

Aaron Ciechanover | Nobel prize-winning Chemist

France Córdova | Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Aminata Sall Diallo |Professor of Physiology, CEO of APEES

Oley Dibba-Wadda | Executive Secretary, ADEA

Yabebal Tadesse Fantaye |AIMS ARETE Junior Chair Holder

Yuko Harayama | Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office of Japan

HE Martial DePaul Ikounga | African Union Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology.

Mariéme Jamme | Co-founder of Africa Gathering

Jean Lebel | President of IDRC

Arthur MacDonald | Director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute

HE Minister Mary Teuw Niane | Minister of Higher Education and Research, Senegal

HE Minister Naledi Pandor | Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa

Joachim Rogall |Co-CEO Robert Bosch Stiftung

Youngah Park | President of K.I.S.T.E.P.

Molapo Qhobela | CEO of the National Research Foundation of South Africa

Reeta Roy | President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation

Georg Schütte |State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education, Germany

Arun Sharma | Managing Director, NEF

Flavia Schlegel | UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for the Natural Sciences

Bernard Slippers | Associate Professor in Genetics

Paul Stoffels |Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson

Ingrid Wünning Tschol | Snr V.P Strategy Robert Bosch Foundation

Peter Strohschneider | President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Thierry Zomahoun | Executive Director, President and CEO of AIMS Group

Katy Cissé Wone | Next Einstein Forum’s (NEF) Africa Director

Neil Turok | Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada

Maarten van Herpen | Head of the Philips Africa Innovation Hub

Rush Holt | CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

 

 

 

Parallel Session Speakers

Berhanu Abegaz | Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences

Samuel Achilefu | Endowed Professor of Radiology

Cheick Modibo Diarra | astrophysicist, businessman, and politician

Marceline Egnin | Professor of Plant Biotechnology

Bernie Fanaroff | Project Director of South Africa’s Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

Naser Faruqui | IDRC’s Director of Technology and Innovation

Abba Gumel | C. Castillo-Chavez Professor of Mathematical Biology

Kwadwo A. Sarpong | Chief Executive Officer of ARA-W

Rose Gana Fomban Leke | Professor of Immunology and Parasitology

Alan Leshner | Former CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Julie Makani | Wellcome Trust Research Fellow

Salif Diop | Professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University

Francisca Nneka Okeke | Professor of Phsyics

Iruka Okeke | Professor of Microbiology

Alpha Amadou Sall | Scientific Director of Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD)

HE Minister Papa Abdoulaye Seck | Minister of Agriculture, Senegal

David Moinina Sengeh | Ph.D. Candidate at the MIT Media Lab

John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. | 11th President of Morehouse College

Peter Tindemans | Secretary General of EuroScience

Souleymane Mboup | Professor of Microbiology

Seema Kumar | V.P. Innovation, Global Public Health and Science Policy, at Johnson & Johnson

 

 

 

Moderators

Alan Kasujja | BBC Presenter

Joachim Von Braun | Economist, CDR

Sir Philip Campbell | Editor-in-chief of Nature

Phillip Clay | Former Chancellor of M.I.T.

Mamadou Diallo | Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science

Nick Perkins | Director, SciDev.Net

Vaughan Turekian | Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State (USA)

Didier Acouetey | President and Founder of the AfricSearch Group

Serge Michel | chief editor of Le Monde Afrique

Julian Siddle | BBC Science and Multimedia Journalist

Arit Okpo | Overall Forum MC

Mpule Kwelagobe | CEO of MPULE Institute for Endogenous Development