Shehu Usman Abdullahi is Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in Nigeria. He was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Director of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Ahmadu Bello University. He also served as Provost at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. He received his DVM from Ahmadu Bello University and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Sumbo H. Abiose is Professor and Head, Department of Food Science and Technology at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. She was the Vice-Dean, Faculty of Technology (2002-2004). She holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition (Ibadan), an M.Sc in Food Science (Reading, U.K.) and a PhD in Applied Microbiology (Strathclyde, U.K.). She is a member of the Governing Board of the African Network of Technological Institutions (ANSTI) based in Nairobi, Kenya. Prof Abiose is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Obafemi Awolowo University Consultancy Services. She also serves on the Governing Council of the State Polytechnic, Esa-Oke, Osun State, Nigeria.

Lishan Adam is an international development researcher and consultant based in Addis Ababa and specializing in ICT for development with a focus on Africa. He is Adjunct Professor at the Unity University College, Associate Professor of Information Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, adjunct faculty at Addis Ababa University and Course Director on Telecommunications Sector Planning at the University of West Indies. Previously, he was regional advisor on information technology policy and connectivity at the Economic Commission for Africa, and was project officer of capacity building for Electronic Communications in Africa (CABECA).

Adigun Agbaje is Professor of Political Science and newly appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the immediate past Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the same university. Trained at the Universities of Lagos and Ibadan, Nigeria, he has held visiting fellowships at University of Oxford (1991-1992) and the Transregional Centre for Democratic Studies, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research (now New School University), New York.

Jophus Anamuah-Mensah is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana. He was recently awarded the Order of the Volta by the Ghana government. He steered the University of Education, Winneba, to gain autonomy in 2004 and was appointed its first Vice-Chancellor. He holds doctoral, graduate and undergraduate qualifications in science education from the Universities of British Columbia and Cape Coast, has over sixty-three publications, and serves on various national and international bodies.

Samir Anand is Operations and Development Manager for Cell-Life, a pioneering initiative in South Africa that provides effective technology-based solutions for the management of HIV/Aids. He holds a B.Sc. (Mechatronics Engineering) degree from the University of Cape Town with experience in instrumentation research and wireless communications.

Thomas Arrison is Senior Staff Officer/Study Director in the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the U.S. National Academies. He has directed studies and projects on topics including innovation and U.S. economic competitiveness, higher education, the science and technology workforce, information technology, defense technology, and international science and technology relations. He received MA degrees in public policy and Japanese studies, and a BA degree in political science from the University of Michigan.

Don Baridam is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. He is an expert in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and was the immediate past Dean, Faculty of Management Science. He also has 20 years experience as Consultant to several national and international organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme, Shell Petroleum Development Company and the European Union. He holds a Doctor of Management (Ph.D.) from the Laval University in Quebec, Canada, Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Northwest Missouri and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from the University of Wisconsin. Professor Baridam obtained his West African School Certificate from the famous Baptist High School, Port Harcourt in 1971.

Boubakar Barry is Coordinator of the Research and Education Networking Unit at the Association of African Universities (AAU). Prior to joining the AAU, he was Director of the Computer Centre of Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Senegal and lecturer at UCAD’s Faculty of Science and Technology. Dr. Barry holds a PhD in Nuclear Electronics from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

Venansius Baryamureeba is Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Computing and IT at Makerere University in Uganda. He has a track record as a consultant on ICT research, training, advisory services and policy and is a recognised expert on e-governance and higher education planning and management. He is also the Chairman and Managing Director of ICT Consults Ltd, one of the prestigious ICT consultancy firms in Africa. He is also currently involved in initiatives of growing and sustaining ICT/ Computing human capital in Sub-Saharan Africa region.

Peter Bateman has worked in the Education Sector in Africa for the past 14 years, with a focus on the use of appropriate technologies to increase access to Higher Education. Until recently he worked as Manager of the Open Distance and eLearning (ODeL) Initiative at the African Virtual University. He received his Masters Degree from Reading University (UK) and his Bachelor of Education Degree from the Australian Catholic University. He is currently a PhD student at the Open University (UK) where he is researching the development and use of Open Educational Resources in the context of Higher Education and Training in Africa.

Michael L. Best is Assistant Professor with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Adjunct Assistant Professor with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Michael is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Information Technologies and International Development published by the MIT Press. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has served as Director of Media Lab Asia in India and head of the eDevelopment group at the MIT Media Lab.

Nick Binedell is the Founding Director and Sasol Chair of Strategic Management of the Gordon Institute of Business Science, Johannesburg. GIBS has rapidly established itself as a leading business school in South Africa with a strong focus on partnering with leading South African corporates and providing a high level of local and international business education. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, an MBA from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Rhodes University.

John Mugun Boit is currently Senior Principal Administrative Officer at Moi University. He has held a number of administrative positions in institutions of higher learning since 1981. In 1999, he served as a consultant to the National Committee of enquiry on the education system in Kenya. In 2000, he was secretary to the National Committee on Root Causes of Riots and Disturbances in Public Universities in Kenya. He is a part-time lecturer in research methodology and the economics of education. Dr. Boit obtained his Masters degree and Ph.D. at Bristol University, UK.

John P. Boright is the Executive Director of the Office of International Affairs of the U.S. National Academies (comprising science, engineering, and medicine). International activities of the National Academies are very diverse, and include cooperation with national, regional, and global groups of counterparts from all regions of the world. He previously served in several U.S. governmental positions, including Deputy to the Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology Affairs at the Department of State. He received a B.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University.

Neil Butcher has provided policy and technical advice and support to a range of South African and international clients regarding uses of educational technology and distance education. He has worked with various educational institutions, assisting with institutional transformation efforts that focus on harnessing the potential of distance education methods and educational technology as effectively as possible. He is leading the development of South Africa’s national education portal for the Department of Education.

John Butler-Adam joined the Ford Foundation Johannesburg office in February 2005 as program officer for higher education, and is also Ford's coordinator for the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa. He has spent his working life in higher education institutions in South Africa as a lecturer, professor, Director of an Institute for Social and Economic Research, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and CEO of a higher education consortium. He is a graduate of the University of Natal-BA (Hons) and of Penn State University-PhD in Geography.

Tony Carr is Coordinator of Staff Development at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Educational Technology. Tony's work is focused on developing the capacity of educators to teach effectively with technology. His related passions include online and blended facilitation of learning communities and researching online learning conversations. His qualifications include a Masters in Economics Education from the Institute of Education, University of London and a Postgraduate Diploma in Continuing Education and Training from City University in the United Kingdom.

Michael T. Clegg is Foreign Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining the UC Irvine faculty he was a faculty member and dean at the University of California, Riverside, and also served on the faculties of the University of Georgia and Brown University. His research specialty is population genetics and molecular evolution. His early work in population genetics focused on the dynamical behavior of linked systems of genes in plant and Drosophila populations. He received his BS and PhD degrees in agricultural genetics and genetics respectively at the University of California, Davis.

Laura Czerniewicz is Director of the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town. Following a career in publishing, she joined UCT to head the Multimedia Education Group. Laura considers the true nature of her job to be that of an interpreter and translator. She is interested in the relationships between policy and practice, as well as the conceptual underpinnings of this emerging domain of enquiry.

Jesus A. del Alamo is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. He holds a PhD from Stanford University. He is engaged in research on novel microelectronics technologies for communications and logic applications. He also conducts research on online laboratories for science and engineering education.

Uday B. Desai is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay. During 2002-2004 he took leave from his faculty position to direct the HP-IITM Laboratory, a joint lab of Hewlett Packard and the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras. He is working to bring the advantages of modern-day telecommunication to the Indian masses. He received his B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, his M.S. from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

Victor S. Dugga (Ph.D.) studied at the Universities of Jos, Nigeria, Essex, UK and Bayreuth, Germany. He is a lecturer, a creative writer and now serves as Executive Director, Advancement Office at the University of Jos. His short story ‘Over the bar’ won first prize in a writing contest organized by the Swiss Society for African Studies and FIFA in Zurich in 2001.

Michael Oladimeji Faborode is Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Educated at Ife and Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, Professor Faborode studied Agricultural Engineering and earned his PhD in 1986. He is a Registered Engineer, and was, until September 2006, Vice President of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). Before his present appointment, he was Head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering 1996-2002, Dean of the Faculty of Technology 2002-2006 and Chairman of the Committee of Deans, 2006-2006. He was a member of the University's Central Strategic Plan Committee.

Tamara C. Fox is currently Program Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Population Program, with a responsibility for program activities in Africa and Latin America, and for the areas of population and the environment, universal basic and secondary education advocacy, contraceptive supplies security, and migration. Prior to this, Dr. Fox served as a consultant to the World Bank. She has also worked in the areas of health care and reproductive health. Dr. Fox earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Claudia Frittelli is a Program Associate in the International Development Program at Carnegie Corporation. She develops and oversees projects and grants on strengthening African universities including technology, gender equity and capacity building. Her work includes coordination with the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa. She was formerly a Manager of the Global Digital Opportunity Initiative, a public private partnership at the Markle Foundation. Ms. Frittelli holds an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird, an M.A. in Linguistic Studies from Syracuse University and a B.A in European Studies from the University of Vermont.

John Gage is Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems, an international information technology company based in California. He was one of the founders of Sun, in 1982, when a group of students and professors from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley joined to create open systems in hardware and software. He serves on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security, the Board of Advisors of the United States Institute of Peace, the National Academy of Sciences, and the International Advisory Board of the Malaysian Multimedia Corridor. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Stuart Gannes, Director of the Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford University, an integrated prototyping course that focuses on technology innovation and social entrepreneurship. The goal is to support the design and concept-testing and sustainability modeling of technology solutions that address humanitarian needs in the developing world. Prior to joining DVP, he was Vice President of Internet Applications for AT&T Labs in Menlo Park, California, and previously was an entrepreneur and journalist. He received a BA from the University of Michigan, and his Masters in Education and Social Policy at Harvard University.

Wieland Gevers is the Executive Officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor responsible for planning and academic process at the University of Cape Town from 1992 until the end of 2002, and President of the Academy of Science of South Africa from 1998-2004. He was Chairperson of the Education Committee of the South African Universities’ Vice-Chancellors Association during 2001-2, and represented all South African Universities on the South African Qualifications Authority from 1996-2002. He qualified in Medicine at the University of Cape Town and took a D.Phil. degree in Biochemistry at Oxford University.

Charity Gichuki serves as Director for Research and Development at Kenyatta University; charged with the coordination of all research and development issues in the University. She has extensive experience in a wide variety of agricultural and biomedical research and has headed technology transfer programs involving interaction with community industries. Prior to joining Kenyatta University, she directed research in leading biomedical and biotechnology institutions in Kenya, including Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute and Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation. She also served as a resource person for various national and international organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNIDO, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the Academy for Educational Research.

Suzanne Grant Lewis is the Coordinator of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa and Senior Research Scholar at the NYU Steinhardt School of Education. She was a Harvard faculty member 1997-2006, where she co-developed and directed the International Education Policy Program. Her research focuses on policy efforts to address educational inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa. She spent over five years in southern Africa as an advisor on research, policy, and planning to the Namibian and Malawian ministries of education and worked in various capacities in Kenya and Tanzania for six years. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Eve Gray is a 2006-7 International Policy Fellow with the Open Society Institute, Budapest, in the Open Information Working Group; where her research topic concerns the potential for Open Access research publication policy to increase the development impact of African research. She is an Honorary Research Associate in the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town. She has worked for the last five years as a publishing strategy consultant and before that was Director of the Witwatersrand University Press and the University of Cape Town Press.

Phillip A. Griffiths serves as Senior Advisor to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is also Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he served as director from 1991-2003. He leads the Millennium Science Initiative (MSI), whose primary goal is to strengthen the science and technology capacity of developing nations. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Griffiths was provost and James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University and also held faculty positions at Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Martin Hall is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town. His portfolio includes institutional planning and quality assurance as well as the co-ordination of appropriate processes to achieve university-wide transformation objectives. He was formerly Dean of the Centre for Higher Education Development at UCT, director of the Research Unit for the Study of the Archaeology of Cape Town, and director of the university's Multimedia Education Group. He received an honours degree in archaeology and anthropology in 1974 from Cambridge University and a doctorate in 1980.

Mohamed H. A. Hassan is President of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). He is Executive Director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, and Secretary General of the Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO). He was previously professor and dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Khartoum. He holds a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from the University of Oxford, UK.

Richard Isnor, Director of the Innovation Policy and Science program area at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), holds a PhD in Science and Technology Policy Studies (1995), University of Sussex, UK; MA Environmental Studies (1992), Dalhousie University, Canada; and BA Biochemistry (1989), Mount Allison University, Canada. He has held science and technology policy and management positions in a variety of federal government organizations, including the National Research Council of Canada (2002-2005), Environment Canada (1997-2000), Natural Resources Canada (2000-2002) and the Privy Council Office (2000). Dr. Isnor joined IDRC in July 2005.

Shaheeda Jaffer is Coordinator for Curriculum Projects, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town. Shaheeda comes from a Mathematics education background, and has worked at the University of the Western Cape and more recently at UCT's Schools Development Unit.

Attahiru Jega is Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. He was previously Academic Deputy Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, and served as Director of the Center for Democratic Research and Training, Bayero University, Kano. Previously he was a visiting research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm, Sweden, at St. Peter's College at the University of Oxford, and a visiting senior research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. Jega currently serves as a Member of the Presidential Committee on the Assessment and Monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals and as a Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Youth Affairs. He was conferred the national award of "Officer of the Federal Republic, OFR" in December 2005 in recognition of his work towards the development of Nigeria and its people. He received his MA and Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

Russel C. Jones is chairman of the Capacity Building Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations, working to build enhanced technical workforces in developing countries as a major base to promote sustainable economic growth. He also serves as a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering education in the international arena. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University of Delaware.

Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard University. He is a former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi, and he also served as Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He holds a PhD in science and technology policy studies.

Bruno Kilunga Kubata is Network Director of Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa (BecA) in Nairobi, an initiative of NEPAD. He was previously Senior Scholar Fellow of the Ellison Medical Foundation/National Research Council, USA and Principal Investigator at the US Army Medical Research Unit in Nairobi. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Microbiology & Biochemistry from Gifu University in Japan.

Alice Sena Lamptey is Senior Program Officer at the Secretariat of the Association of African Universities (AAU) based in Accra, Ghana, and Coordinator of the Working Group on Higher Education (WGHE) of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). She has over fifteen years of professional program management experience in the fields of education, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. An advocate for women and children’s rights, she also has many years of experience training a variety of target groups in multiple cultural settings. As Coordinator of the ADEA Working Group on Higher Education (WGHE) since May 2002, Alice has successfully anchored the WGHE in Africa.

Lisbeth A. Levey has worked extensively on issues pertaining to information and communications technologies (ICT) in Africa, with a particular focus on improving information access and enhancing dissemination of African information through technology. She currently lives in Israel, where she serves as senior advisor to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She was previously facilitator of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, based at the New York University Steinhardt School of Education. Prior to that, she was based in Africa, serving as director of the Project for Information Access and Connectivity, and in the Ford Foundation Nairobi field office.

Thandi Lewin is consultant to the Ford Foundation Office for Southern Africa based in Johannesburg, working with the Ford Africa Higher Education Initiative and assisting with Ford's role in the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa. Until recently she worked in the South African national Department of Education as Program Manager for the Carnegie-SA Scholarship Program. She was previously Transformation Officer at the University of Cape Town. She has a Bachelor of Social Science degree from the University of Cape Town and a Masters degree in Education and Development from the University of London.

Livingstone S. Luboobi is Vice-Chancellor of Makerere University in Uganda. He graduated from Makerere’s College of East Africa and has remained at Makerere since except for several periods of overseas study. He is an Applied Mathematician specializing in Biomathematics with emphasis on mathematical epidemiology. He has served as Head of the Mathematics Department and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Makerere.

Matthew L. Luhanga holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and is a Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). He has been the Vice Chancellor of UDSM since 1991. He has served as a Chairman or member of Boards, Councils or Task Forces at national, regional and international level and has received awards for his academic and professional activities at national and international level. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Association of African Universities and of the Inter-University Council for East Africa.

Malegapuru William Makgoba is Vice-Chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He was previously President of the Medical Research Council of South Africa and leader of the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative, where his task was to develop a strategy for dealing with South Africa's AIDS epidemic. An internationally recognized molecular immunologist, Dr. Makgoba was a visiting associate scientist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health from 1986 to 1988. He received his MBCh.B. from the University of Natal in 1976 and a Ph.D. in human immunogenetics from Oxford University in 1983.

Stephen Marquard is Coordinator for Learning Technologies at UCT’s Centre for Educational Technology. Stephen is responsible for co-ordinating connect, WebCT and a next-generation environment built on the Sakai framework, as well as other software and hardware technologies which support teaching and learning processes. Stephen also pursues interests in online collaboration, open source software and learning theory.

Duncan Martin is Chief Executive Officer of South African Tertiary Education Network (TENET). Previously, he was Director of Information Technology at the University of Cape Town. From 1980 to 1989, he was Director (and from May 1983, Chief Director) of the National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NRIMS) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria. He holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Natal and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of South Africa.

Strive Masiyiwa is the founder and CEO of Econet Wireless, which is one of Africa's five largest telecom companies. Econet Wireless Group is a diversified global telecommunications group operating in the core areas of mobile cellular telephony, fixed lined networks, satellite services and internet operations. The Group is registered in Botswana and has operations and offices in Africa ( Botswana , Kenya , Lesotho , Nigeria , South Africa and Zimbabwe ), Europe (UK), and the East Asia Pacific Region ( New Zealand ). Masiyiwa received his degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Wales. In 2002 he was named to Time Magazine's 15 Global Influentials list.

Venâncio Massingue was appointed Minister of Science and Technology of Mozambique in 2005. He was previously Vice-Rector for Administration & Resources and Information and Communications Technologies at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM). Prior to that he was Director of the Informatics Centre (CIUEM) at UEM, playing a key role in bringing the Internet to Mozambique and in developing CIUEM as a centre of expertise for South-South cooperation programmes. Currently he is the Executive Secretary of the Mozambique Acacia Advisory Committee and the president of the UNESCO Regional Informatics for Africa (RINAF).

Peter Materu is a Senior Education Specialist in the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC where he focuses on tertiary education in Africa. He joined the World Bank in 2000, initially with the African Virtual University (AVU) project. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Materu was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering later and as Director for Postgraduate Studies.

Narciso Matos is Chair of International Development division at the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In this role he oversees the foundation’s work in sub-Saharan Africa, which focuses on strengthening higher education in select African universities, creating scholarships for women students and revitalizing African libraries. He was previously Secretary General of the Association of African Universities, worked in several academic and administrative levels at Mozambique’s Eduardo Mondlane University, and served as a member of the Mozambique parliament. Matos received a B.S. in chemistry from Eduardo Mondlane University and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Humboldt University in Berlin.

Brazao Mazula is Rector of Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique and a member of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He presided over the National Electoral Committee charged with organizing the first multi-party elections in the history of Mozambique in 1994. He previously held positions in the Ministry for Education and Culture of Mozambique, was Rector of the Minor Seminary in Cuamba, Nassau, and served as a priest in Nassau. He received a degree in Philosophy and Theology from the Saint Poi X Major Seminary in Maputo. He received his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Education from the University of São Paulo.

Shahab Meshki is Cisco Academy Regional Director, Middle East & Africa. He is responsible for the operation of Cisco Systems’ flagship in Corporate Social Responsibility Program with more than 50,000 students at 600 academies in 62 countries. Shahab brings strong experience from his past extensive dealings with emerging economies in East Africa and has been instrumental in driving public private partnerships in those regions, particularly in the case of Ethiopia. He holds a Master in Electronic Engineering from Technical University of Berlin, Germany and is taking part in a postgraduate program at Cambridge University in Cross Sector Partnerships.

Carla Aurora Moiana is Assistant Director of Infrastructures and Information Systems at Mozambique’s Ministry of Science and Technology. She was a member of the team that designed the terms of reference for the new Information Technology career approved by the National Authority for Public Administration and she contributed to the Civil Identity System. Carla has taught mathematics, statistics, programming, and IT systems at numerous education institutions. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane and an honors degree in IT.

Joyce Lewinger Moock joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 1979. As a Managing Director, she provides leadership and strategic direction for select Foundation initiatives. During her tenure at the Foundation, she has served as the principal program officer for higher education and human capacity building in Africa. She has also held the positions of assistant director for social sciences, associate director for agricultural sciences, acting director for global environment, and associate vice president. Dr. Moock has a doctoral degree in anthropology from Columbia University.

Olive M. Mugenda is Vice-Chancellor of Kenyatta University in Kenya. Before becoming the first woman Vice-Chancellor in an East African public university, she served as Head of Department, Dean of Faculty, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Prof. Mugenda obtained a Bachelor of Education degree with First Class Honours from Kenyatta University in 1979, and thereafter proceeded to Iowa State University where she obtained her M.A and Ph.D. in Family Studies, Education and Research Methods.

Katherine Namuddu is Associate Director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Africa Regional Program, and is based in Nairobi, Kenya. She was previously Senior Scientist for African Initiatives. She has an extensive track record of consulting, teaching, and directing projects aimed at strengthening education in Kenya and Uganda. She holds Ed.D, MSc. and M.A. degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a B.Sc. from Makerere University.

Njabulo S. Ndebele is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. He was previously a scholar in residence at the Ford Foundation’s headquarters in New York. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of the North, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape. He has also held positions at the University of the Witwatersrand and the National University of Lesotho. Prof. Ndebele served as President of the Congress of South African Writers for many years, was Chair of the South African Vice-Chancellors’ Association, and is currently Chair of the African Association of Universities. As a public figure he is known for his incisive insights in commentaries on a range of public issues in South Africa, and as a writer. His most recent novel is The Cry of Winnie Mandela.

Dick Ng’ambi is Research Coordinator and Learning Designer at the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town. He has a background in IT industry, academia and research. In this role he manages cutting edge projects that are exploring and developing software for mobile devices including cell phones and PDA (personal digital assistants) for educational purposes. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems (UCT), an MSc in Computer Science (Birmingham University) and a BSc in Mathematics (University of Zambia).

Loyiso Nongxa is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research. Nongxa is a mathematician and former Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. After graduating with a mathematics degree from the University of Fort Hare, Professor Nongxa became South Africa's first black Rhodes scholar and went on to obtain his doctorate at Oxford University.

Sinead O'Gorman is a Program Officer at the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York. Sinead coordinates IIE's work with the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa. For the past several years, Sinead's work has focused on the intersection of international development and higher education. She previously held program and research positions with the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics in London and the Irish Council for International Students in Dublin. Sinead holds a Masters degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a Masters in French literature from the Université de Montréal.

Eric Osiakwan is the Executive Secretary both of the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA). He is the Project Coordinator of the TIER Group, UC Berkeley in Ghana, a Visiting Fellow and Scholar at the Stanford University Digital Vision Program, and an affiliate at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. During the past four years, he has been involved in several information and communication technology (ICT) related projects and initiatives in the US, Europe and Africa for a number of Governments, companies, NGOs, and international agencies.

Jakita N. Owensby is a Research Staff Member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center (ARC) in San Jose, California. She is a member of the Services Research Division as a member of the People and Practices group, which explores the socio-technical aspects of services. Dr. Owensby’s research interests include exploring the development of complex cognitive skills, learning from experience/cases, and further understanding how technology can be integrated into learning environments of all kinds to promote deeper, more flexible learning. She received a B.S. in Computer Science from Spelman College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a concentration in Learning Sciences and Technology and a minor in Educational Research and Cognitive Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kristin Peterson is Co-Founder, Chair and Chief Development Officer of Inveneo, a non-profit social enterprise which offers open, non-centralized and sustainable approaches for providing ICT systems. She has more than eighteen years of experience in communications industry business development, new market development and marketing experience. Most recently, she was VP Marketing for Tello, a recently launched technology start-up which provides instant IP services to enterprises. She has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from NMSU and an M.B.A in International Marketing from Pepperdine University.

Wilson Adolphe Rajerison is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Antananarivo. He also chairs the Scientific Council at the University of Antananarivo and supervises research at the faculty of science at the University of Antananarivo. Professor Rajerison also currently serves on the Board of Directors of FIARO (Institute of Insurance and Reinsurance), the National Institute of Science and Nuclear Technologies and the Institut Supérieur des Technologies d’Antananrivo. He earned his doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Nancy in France.

Neerja Raman, a recognized leader in ICT and business research management, is former Director, Strategic Planning, Hewlett Packard Labs and currently Senior Research fellow at Stanford University. She is on the Advisory Committee for Cyber-Infrastructure for the U.S. National Science Foundation, and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2005. She is a graduate of the Executive Program at Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University and has a double Masters from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook and Delhi University.

Stuart J. Saunders is Senior Advisor for the South Africa program at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is emeritus vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, where he was previously professor of medicine. His memoirs, Vice-Chancellor on a Tightrope, were published by David Philip in 2000.

Akilagpa Sawyerr is Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities. He was formerly Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana. He serves on the governing councils of several national and international bodies. His research interests cover international trade and investment law, human development in Africa, and higher education.

Samuel Sefa-Dedeh is Dean, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University of Ghana and Professor of Food Science and Technology. Previously, Professor Sefa-Dedeh was Dean for International Programmes and a member of the team that won a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to execute a project on ‘Enhancement and consolidation of quality teaching and research”. This grant enabled the university to establish a Staff Development and Learning Resources Centre. He obtained his MSc and PhD from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is currently Chairman for the University of Ghana ICT Advisory Board, Website Management Committee and is interested in the use of ICT for effective teaching.

Kole Shettima is the Director of the Africa Office in Abuja, Nigeria, and Co-Chair of the Higher Education Initiative in Africa for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He is responsible for grant making in the Population & Reproductive Health area, Global Challenges, and the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Shettima taught at the University of Maiduguri (Nigeria), the University of Toronto, and at Ohio State University. Shettima has a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, a Masters Degree from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria and his undergraduate degree is from the University of Maiduguri where he has also been a faculty member.

Denis Fred Simon is Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the Levin Graduate Institute of the State University of New York. He is an expert in science & technology and education policy in East Asia, with special emphasis on China. In addition to his academic career, he also has served in senior positions in the world of management consulting, first as Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting China and GM of Andersen Consulting Beijing, then as Managing Director at Scient in Singapore, and then President of Monitor Group China. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a B.A. from the State University of New York.

David K. Some is Vice-Chancellor of Moi University in Kenya. He received his B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Newcastle in Australia, his M.Sc. from the University of Cranfield in England, and his Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle.

Fernando de Sousa is Regional General Manager, Emerging Segments Market Development, Middle East and Africa, Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for all aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility, Citizenship, Competitive Strategy as well as Customer and Partner Experience resulting from all interaction with Microsoft. In addition, he leads the efforts of the Company in market development of emerging segments within the region – this covers technology as well as business models, partnerships and driving change in both economic and social aspects of the communities served by Microsoft.

C.N.B. Tagoe is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana. A Professor of Anatomy, he has taught and held administrative positions at the University of Ghana Medical School. He has also taught and done research at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and Tulane University School of Medicine in the United States.

Sibry Tapsoba was trained in Education Administration and Comparative and International Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr Tapsoba holds a Masters degree and a Ph.D. He joined the African Development Bank as Chief Education Specialist and has since occupied the positions of Assistant to the Vice President, Corporate Management; Advisor to the Vice President, Policy and Planning; and is currently the Lead Education Officer in Higher Education, Science and Technology, and Vocational Education. Prior to joining the Bank, Dr Tapsoba was Regional Director of the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC-Canada) for West and Central Africa, in charge of 24 countries and the overall policy directions of IDRC-Canada’s work in the region. He has taught at the Institut des Sciences de l’éducation of the Université de Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration of Burkina Faso. Tapsoba served as a senior consultant to various institutions and is the author of several books and refereed articles on education, research and other development issues. He is currently the Chair of the ADEA Working Group on Higher Education.

Sonni Gwanie Tyoden is Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos in Nigeria. A political scientist, Prof. Tyoden has spent most of his career at the University of Jos, holding a variety of administrative positions in addition to teaching and scholarship. He received his Master's and Doctorate degrees from the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom.

Ying Vah Zafilahy is Director of Training and Research at the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar and Senior Lecturer at the University’s Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique. Dr. Zafilahy has held numerous positions in the public and private sectors, including Director-General of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (1993-1997) and Director of Studies and Curriculum development at the Ministry of Higher Education (1999-2001). He has served on several committees involving the development of higher education in Madagascar, often in connection with projects funded by the World Bank. Dr. Zafilahy earned his Ph.D. in technical sciences from the Moscow Institute of Mines.