Professor Vincent Anigbogu was born on October 19, 1954. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1978 and Master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry in 1981, both from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, in Pennsylvania, USA. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry in 1986 at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

He taught Analytical Chemistry for over twenty years from August 1980 as a graduate assistant to May 2004 at four different universities in the USA. In 2006, Professor Anigbogu returned to Nigeria to devote full-time effort towards the development of leaders with leadership and management competencies necessary for the transformation of Africa.

Professor Anigbogu believes that sound, value-based education is central to reconstructing the mindset of Africans and people of African descent towards integrity leadership and quality management skills required for the transformation of their organizations, communities, and nations.

Towards this end, he and his team established the Institute for National Transformation (INT) in Lagos, Nigeria in September 2007 for which he serves as the Director General. The Institute focuses on developing “no excuse” leadership of integrity and exceptional organizational skills from both the private and public sectors throughout Africa.

Such leaders should proffer performance instead of pronouncements, expertise and competence instead of title and position, pioneer bold and progressive initiatives instead of dictatorship and control; and leave lasting legacy in the continent instead of failures and excuses. INT has training centers in Nigeria, Uganda, Atlanta (USA) in collaboration with Beulah Heights University. She also has presence in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Ivory Coast, and London (UK).

He is married to Peggy for over 26 years. They work and travel together world-wide as consultants to business establishments, State and National governments, Universities, and Church organizations. Professor Anigbogu admits: “I have an unquenchable passion for a new Africa and to see a fulfilled God’s vision for the people of African descent.”

Professionally, Prince Olumide Olugbenle is the Founder & CEO, Cyrus & Arrows, a transformation implementation organization. He is a graduate of Economics from the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University and an alumnus of the prestigious Lagos Business School, where he obtained an Executive MBA. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, an associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria and Nigeria Institute of Management.

Prince Olumide Olugbenle is the driver for Inspiring Initiatives, a Pan-African movement to stir up transformational leaders. He has participated in transformation projects for sub-national governments, business, and faith-based organisations. He currently leads training sessions in transformational leadership at the Institute for National Transformation, where he is also a fellow. He has served and still serves on the board of social, academic, and business organisations, which has included Greensprings School, while he was PTA Chairman for 4 years at the Lekki Campus, and Institute for National Transformation Nigeria. He is the current State Director of Training for Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Lagos State.

He has 3 decades of working experience spanning professional practice, business development, training, and executive management. He has attended several courses and facilitated training sessions locally and internationally.  He is currently undergoing the Certified ROI Practitioner process with ROI Institute amongst a  number of Personal Development Programs.

Pastor, Teacher, Public Speaker and Transformational Leader, Olumide Olugbenle pastors The Father’s House, Rehoboth International Christian Centre and currently serves on the International Leadership Team of the Institute for National Transformation. He also serves on the board of social, academic and business organisations.

He is married to Pastor (Mrs.) ‘Mowunmi Olugbenle and the union is blessed with 3 boys.

Maurice is passionate about sustainable development that leaves entire ecosystems better off. In the development space, his interest is in the elimination of systemic hunger and poverty across Africa using localized African paradigms, and the potential impact of zero hunger and poverty on all 17 sustainable development goals.

To catalyze zero hunger and eliminate systemic poverty across Africa by 2030, Maurice has conducted private studies and developed models, culminating in the setting up of a number of startups including Replenish Specialties in 2018 to test and scale the models. His vision is to provide 1 billion nutrient-dense meals for Africa’s vulnerable by 2030, eliminating systemic hunger and poverty across Africa in the process.

He has participated in a number of community focused food relief and sustainable infrastructure projects across two local government areas in Lagos Nigeria including serving as a member of the planning and execution committee for a project targeted at people with disabilities from six Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) and Orisunbare across Alimosho Local Government Area (LGA) as well as Monkey Village in Ikeja Local Government Area, bringing relief to 637 households from the most food insecure communities in Lagos Nigeria during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. At the same time, the committee also planned a water and sanitation project for monkey village in Agbaoku community Opebi to address the deplorable sanitation condition of the community at the time, both projects sponsored by the Institute for National Transformation.

Professionally, he has had over 20 years’ experience working with partners in different sectors spanning financial services, healthcare, infrastructure development, agriculture, education, ICT, transportation, media and oil and gas.

His role has ranged from project development to sales and marketing, strategic corporate communication, research, strategic stakeholder management, human capital development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring as well as provision of consultancy and advisory services to different local and international organizations from Asia, Europe, the United States and across Africa including Olam International of Singapore, SIAT Group of Belgium, SOFRECO of France, IIEP-UNESCO among others.

As a researcher, Maurice has led and participated in many studies including leading the team that conducted studies of the oil palm and rubber value chains in Nigeria for Olam as well as serving as National Consultant representing the French Multinational SOFRECO in a Pan African study on the state of play and prospects for the digital transformation of TVET and the skills development system in Africa sponsored by IIEP-UNESCO and other multilateral partners; providing a baseline for the African Unions human capital development plan for the continent by 2030.

Completed end of 2021, the study covered five African countries including Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, Chad and Tunisia. The research was part of the Pan-African Initiative for the Digital Transformation of TVET and Skills Development Systems in Africa, implemented by UNESCO, the African Union and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), through the Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA), the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Maurice serves on the Board of some private organizations including Maurana, Replenish Specialties and Sothemu of Zambia. Between 2016 and 2019, he was appointed by government to the Board of the Cross River State Agriculture and Food Technology Agency. He is an accredited International mediator, a certified transformational leader and an African Research Counsellor with the Wheeler Institute of Business and Development of the United Kingdom.

Professor Rapelanoro is currently the Head of Department of Dermatology Antananarivo University,  President of Malagasy Society of Dermatology, President of IT lab in Public Health LARTIC, Member of African Society of Dermato Venereology, Treasurer of Malagasy Academy of Medicine. Reviewer of Journal Medical International of Research in Dermatologyl (JMIR).

Benja RAPELANORO is french board certified in Dermatology at Bordeaux University and became Professor and Head of the Department of Dermatology in the University Hospital Antananarivo since 2000. His research focus is atopic dermatitis in black skin and Subcutaneous fungus, In addition, he has a strong interest in teledermatology and work in PASSION project using IA in Atopic Dermatitis with the University of Bale.

Prof. RAPELANORO has published more than 100 original articles and is a member of national and international review board such as JMIR in dermatology and IA. He is the founder and the president of the Malagasy Dermatology Society and served as the General secretary of the French speaking Dermatology Association from 2015–2017 and is currently the treasurer of Malagasy Academy of Medicine. He is also the former Dean of Faculty of Medicine of Antananarivo. Prof. RAPELANORO organize on June 2022 the expert meeting of Atopic Dermatitis for Sub Saharian Africa in Antananarivo under the aegis of WHO and with the participation of the International Society for Atopic Dermatitis (ISAD), The International league of Dermatology, International ociety of Teledermatology, Global Action.

Dr. Hadhami Abassi holds a Doctorate degree in educational sciences from the Paris Descartes University France, with specialization in the integration of ICT in education. She also holds three masters degrees in education, training engineering and sociology from the Paris Descartes University France, University of ROUEN France and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tunis.

Her research interest in the impact of education and technology in the development of the Maghreb region and former French colonies of Africa.

Dr. Abassi has extensive experience in development cooperation in the fields of education and initial and continuing vocational training in particular in:
• Training teachers in pedagogical innovation and in the diversification of pedagogical strategies
• Implementation of quality approach in university pedagogy
• Conducting studies related to digitization
• Pedagogical scripting using constructivism and social constructivism

She has solid experience in the training of trainers, applying andragogy in the development of the training plan and in the animation of the sessions;

Dr. Abassi lives in the beautiful city of Sousse in Tunisia and has extensive experience working across Africa including her home country of Tunisia, Mauritania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Guinea, Benin Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, Togo, Libya, among others.

She is currently the Director General and CEO of the National Center for Continuing Education and Professional Promotion (CNFCPP) Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment Tunisia.

She has many published works to her credit and is fluent in Arabic and French.

Professor Martin is an organizational transformation, public policy and public finance management expert. Additionally, he has robust experience in investment banking, academia and economic development. He is currently the Managing Director/CEO of ValueFronteira Limited. Over the last six years, he has focused on supporting organizations and the public sector with revenue expansion and performance transformations consistent with the digital speed of disruptions in complex business environments.

Professor Martin has to his advantage, decades of executive-level experience. Before returning to ValueFronteira Limited, he briefly served as the Chief Transformation Officer at GTI Capital Group, where he led the deployment of the HandHolding® framework in restructuring and repositioning organizations for maximum impacts in strategy execution culture and sustained positive financial performance. He also served as the African Regional Director at the Baywood Foundation, where he coordinated cross-country strategies for mainstreaming youth internship programmes on the continent. Until recently, he led the design and implementation of internally generated revenue [IGR] expansion strategies for Bauchi, Sokoto, Akwa-Ibom, Adamawa, Ebonyi and Gombe States in a DAI USAID-Funded State2State programme.

At various times, Professor Martin was the Chair of the Economic and Statistics Committee of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industries; currently a member of the Governing Council of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Benue State; member of the advisory board of the Institute for Peace and Development Studies, Enugu State University of Science and Technology; formerly, member of the Research and Advocacy Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers; Chair of the Board of Trustees of Talitha Cumi, University [approved for takeoff by the NUC], a former member of the Special advisory committee on private sector development of Enugu State Government, a non-executive director at GTI Asset Management Limited, board member, Golden Guinea Breweries Plc, a Fellow of the African Centre for Supply Chain and International Fellow, Scaling Business in Africa – Edinburgh University Business School.

His consulting experiences cut across several sectors of the Nigerian economy and comprise many engagements in the projects of many international development agencies such as USAID, World Bank, DAI, UNDP, DFID, Adam Smith International, UNIFEM, IPSOS, SUFFEGOR, CIDA, SLGP, ECOWAS, WATAF, European Commission, Bill Gates Foundation, Edinburgh Business School, Lagos Business School, etc.

He is a columnist with Business a.m newspaper and was formerly a member of the editorial board of Businessday newspaper. My column [full-page] currently focuses on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) initiatives for subnational governments.

Professor Martin also has a secondary interest in academia. He is currently a visiting professor at the Institute for peace, conflict and development studies of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, a professor of economics at EUCLID University and formerly a visiting professor of business at the Virtual University of Uganda. He holds a PhD in business economics from ESEADE University Institute in Argentina; and a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) from SMC University. He has authored five books. Some of them are “Nigeria’s Cloud of Fear and Death”, “Handholding Africa to Prosperity”, and “Addressing Nigeria’s Governance Failure: A Precondition for Economic Prosperity”.

Doreen is a Ph.D holder in History, specialized in Environmental History, with extensive knowledge on Peace and Conflict Studies, and an average Professional in Human Resources Management.

She has over 10 years working experience in administration and higher education services. Doreen has served as an Archivist Assistant, Executive Assistant in Catholic Universities, as well as Lecturer in private higher institutions.
As a result of the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, she diverted herservices into the Humanitarian sector because of the suffering and pain of people affected by the war, which she has witnessed firsthand. She therefore started as a freelancer and later worked as a Livelihood Support Officer with CARITAS, Bamenda.

Her humanitarian services are carried out through advocacy against Gender-Based Violence, with particular interest for vulnerable teen and single mothers. Doreen also renders child protection services through her organization known as TeenAlive. The organization also provides psychosocial support services, economic Empowerment, career guidance, education for vulnerable girls, and assistance in birth preparation for vulnerable teen and women amongst others.

In addition to the above, she currently serves as an Assistant to the Dean and Lecturer/Consultant at the Pan-African Institute for Development West Africa, Buea.

Dr. Abebe holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and an MBA in Management and Organisation Behaviour; He has over 30 years of experience in research, senior management, and international relations with a wide range of context analysis, advocacy, facilitation, and networking skills. As an expert on Peace and Security, Dr. Abebe has engaged with governments, civil society organizations (CSOs) and members of International Communities on peace and security issues.

He has conducted training workshops on conflict sensitivity, business and conflict (Voluntary Principles (VP) and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)), taught graduate level courses, conducted research, his recent one being the conflict in the Horticulture sector in Ethiopia.

He has a cross cultural experience working in many African, European, and North American countries, managing people from different cultures, implementing, and monitoring the implementation of multiyear projects. Abebe has worked closely with different AUC Commissions and Departments, especially with Peace and Security Department and Department of Political Affairs.

He has designed projects which secured funding for example, from DFID, DANIDA, SIDA, USAID, EU, Comic Relief, and UN Systems. Also, he has been involved in the evaluation of projects, commissioned evaluation of projects and managed their implementations. He is a team player and an excellent networker.

Obatunde Bright Adetola PhD is a Sociologist, Bioethicist, Biographer, Public lecturer, Social Critic and a Professor of Development Sociology at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He is currently a Visiting Professor and Dean, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Hallmark University, Itele, Nigeria. He has conducted (with other researchers) empirical social researches that enjoyed support from both local and international donor agencies such as Family Health International (FHI) Lagos; Pathfinder International (PI) Lagos; Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH) UK, African Development Foundation (ADF), Washington DC and Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETfund, Nigeria. Prof. Adetola has published in both local and international journals in the areas of gender and development. His research interests include: Sociology of Development and Development Studies especially Gender and Women Studies, Social Theory and Research Methods. He is a Lead Researcher in the Institution Based Research Small Grants (2022) funded by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), Nigeria on The Use and Abuse of Names as Tools for Resource Control in Peace and Conflict Understanding in Yoruba land. Protest against Police Brutality in Nigeria: Outlines, Issues and Outcomes (2022), Gratia Associates International, Ijebu Ode. Adetola, O. B, and others (2022): Historical – Contemporary Currents in Corruption and Development in Nigeria in Corruption and Development in Nigeria. (Eds.) Akanle, O. and Nkpe, D.O. London Routledge. Adetola, O.B and Comfort O. Oyafunke-Omoniyi (2022): Is the Unity of Nigeria Negotiable or Not? The Nigerian Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 2022 (20:No.1) Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Association (NASA).

Françoise CROS is currently an honorary university professor at the Center for Research on Training and the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Paris).

She was accredited to supervise research in 1991 at the Université du Grand Ouest Parisien, Nanterre. In 1981, she bagged a Doctorate in Social Psychology on innovation in education and training from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales, Paris. Prior to that, she had a State Diploma of Counselor for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 1969 from the Institut national d’études du travail et d’orientation professionnelle (INETOP), and a Bachelor’s in Experimental Sciences from the Lycée Paul Bert, Paris, in 1963.

Her central research focus is on innovation in education and training, which is broader than pedagogical innovation insofar as she studies the processes of piloting and transforming national and regional education systems through innovation and reforms.

For this, she has provided her expertise in many French-speaking and English-speaking countries or others such as Japan, Macedonia, the Maghreb countries, and the countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

She has written about ten books and several dozen articles on innovation in education and training.

Ebun is a Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Development Unit, ATHENA RC   and the Head of the Department of Stakeholder Analysis and Decision Support Systems at ICRE8 and UN SDSN Greece. She is an Associate Lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen), and Senior Partner with Nigerian-based consultancy GEN Sustainable Solutions. With a BSc (Hons) in Architectural Technology, MSc in Project Management and PhD in Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Communities, she has several years of both industrial and academic experience in Europe, Asia and Africa; collaborating with governmental agencies, NGOs, aid organizations, academic institutions, the private sector and local communities. Her main areas of interest are sustainable development, urban regeneration, SDG policy and implementation, community development, climate change mitigation, transition management, renewable energy, stakeholder participation, participatory planning, evaluation and impact assessment for sustainability, and sustainability in developing nations.

Norah Magero is a Mechanical Engineer and a Renewable Energy Consultant with experience in the design and management of off-grid energy utilities. She is passionate about energy access in Africa and gender issues. She is the co-founder of Cool Green Campaign, an initiative to mentor high school students on renewable energy. She also co-founded Drop Access, a non-profit that has redefined energy access in rural by championing for productive use of energy through innovation and financing. She is a Booking.Com Technology Playmaker Award 2020 finalist and Women in Energy East Africa Community, Philanthropy Award winner 2017. She is also an alumnus of Young African Leaders Initiative, YALI and the Micro-Grid Academy.

Mikael Alemu’s interest is in building abundant renewable energy generation for Ethiopia as well as pushing Ethiopian economic development. To achieve this, Mikael and his partners started 10 Green Gigawatt for Ethiopia – an Ethiopian solar energy project in Addis-Ababa intended to deliver renewable energy supply to Ethiopia. .

He has a rich professional experience spanning 30 years across diverse fields including investment and banking, publishing, development among others, designing & implementing large scale business strategies and investment projects across many countries. Since 1996 he has built 11 companies and led many projects in strategic management, corporate communications and global marketing.

Mikael serves on the board of many Ethiopian and foreign organizations. He speaks many languages including Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian, English, Croatian and Turkish.

Dr Herizo Andriambololoniaina is a Public Health Doctor, and specialist in Medical Informatics, graduated from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He is equally an expert and engineer of Health Information System graduated from the University of Marseille (France).

He is a member of the Laboratory of Research in Public Health specialized in IT and Communication (LARTIC) at the University of Antananarivo. For over 20 years, he has served as coordinator of telemedicine and teledermatology projects in Madagascar. Herizo is also a member of the technical team representing Madagascar in the multi-country project PASSION Dermatology.

He has authored and co-authored more than ten indexed scientific publications. Dr. Herizo is currently a doctoral student at the Ecole Doctorale en Sciences et Techniques de l’Ingénierie et de l’Innovation at the Polytechnic School in the framework of a scientific collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Antananarivo.

Dr. Jack E. MBOM is a Wellness Consultant of repute, with about 34 years of experience in training and consulting for Government, Commerce and Industry. He has lectured at the National Sports Institute, Lagos and directed courses and workshops at the Nigeria Police Academy, Jos; the Nigerian Prisons Academy, Kakuri, Kaduna; the University of Lagos, the University of Ibadan, the University of Ife, the University of Benin and the University of Nigeria.
Dr. MBOM is a Black Belt 8th Degree in Karate-Do. He was Secretary General African Karate Federation (UFAK); UFAK Coordinator Northern African Region; National Karate Coach; and President Nigerian Karate Association (NKA). He is currently Secretary General, Japan Karate Association World Federation (JKA WF), Africa Sub-Sahara Region; Chief Instructor Nigerian Karate Association (NKA) and Chairman Grading Committee, Karate Federation of Nigeria (KFN). He is also a Fellow of the International Institute for Leadership & Governance and the National Coordinator, Physical & Health Education Values, Directorate of Health & Longevity Values, Fellowship of Partners for the Protection of Ethics & Values and Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values.

Nigel Topping is the UN’s High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, appointed by the UK Prime Minister in January 2020 and will serve until COP27. The role of the High Level Champion is to strengthen collaboration and drive action from businesses, investors, organisations, cities, and regions on climate change, and coordinate this work with governments and Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Since his appointment, Nigel, alongside the COP25 High Level Champion Gonzalo Muñoz, established the Race to Zero – a global campaign to commit all actors to net zero by 2050, the Race to Resilience – a global campaign for secure the resilience of 4 billion people by 2030, and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) – a coalition of existing and new net zero finance initiatives. He is now working with the COP27 High Level Champion Mahmoud Mohieldin to forward these campaigns for COP27.

Prior to his appointment, Nigel was CEO of We Mean Business, a coalition of businesses working to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy. Prior to that he was Executive Director of the Carbon Disclosure Project, following an 18 year career in the private sector, having worked across the world in emerging markets and manufacturing.

Tony Rinaudo is the pioneer of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), a regreening technique that involves actively managing the regrowth from living stumps, roots and seedlings in degraded forests, farmland, grazing land and waste land. By promoting this technique, 6,000,000 hectares of land have been restored with over 200 million trees in Niger Republic alone.

Tony has continued to promote this technique which is now restoring degraded landscapes in at least 24 countries and recently received the 2018 Right Livelihood Award for demonstrating on a large scale how drylands can be greened at minimal cost, improving the livelihoods of millions of people and especially improving the lives of women and children. His goal is to see degraded land restored, using FMNR, in 100 countries by 2030.

FMNR is a winner of the 2019 World Future Council’s Agroecology Best Practice award.
Tony was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for services to Conservation in 2019.

Olusegun Toluhi is a 1987 graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin. Kwara State Nigeria. He is a Transportation Engineer with keen interest in Road Sector Reforms, Transport Management, Public Private Partnership, Transport Economics, and Management Leadership. He is a widely travelled professional whose work life traversed many countries in Europe, America, and Asia. He is a committed researcher in transportation engineering in developing and emerging economies who holds a PhD in Transportation/Highway Engineering. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, Boston where he studied General Management (GMP – an executive MBA program) in 2009. Olusegun Toluhi is a fellow and member of several civil/highway engineering professional bodies in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, few of which are listed below:

• Fellow, Nigerian Institution of Highway and Transportation Engineers (FNIHTE), 2014

• Fellow, Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (FNICE), 2010 • Fellow, Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE), 2008

• Member, the American Society of Civil Engineers (MASCE), USA; 2000

• Member, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (MCILT), UK; 2000

He has attended several personal and professional development and certification courses worldwide on sustainable roads, transport management, public private partnership in road administration, leadership, and management, amongst others, including:

• Certification in Transportation Development, Finance and Management at the Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI), Galilee, Israel. Nov. 2013.

• Certification on Sustainable Roads (Road Sector Reforms/Road Financing/Road Safety/Road.

• Maintenance Management), by the International Road Federation (IRF) & University of

• Birmingham (UoB); Birmingham-UK. April 2011.

• Public Private Partnership in Highways – a training program under the India-Africa Forum

• Summit, IAHE, Noida-India. Mar. 2011.

• Short course on Public Private Partnerships, Public Administrators International, UK, 2008.

• Short course on Road Concession and Financial Modeling, Accra – Ghana, 2007.

He started out as a management trainee with Messrs. Julius Berger Nigeria Plc. Abuja, where he spent the first 12 years or so of his engineering career with stints in Wiesbaden-Germany. He joined the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) in 2007 as a Chief Engineer after a 7-year stint at managing the private Engineering Assessment & Certification firm (LEEL & LIAB Ltd/ASACERT UK) where he was the Technical Director. Olusegun Toluhi is a man with sterling leadership qualities, who has played leading roles within the civil engineering and national economic communities in Nigeria. Some of his involvement and leadership roles are listed below:

• Member of the Senate Committees on Transport Sector Reforms, Road Authority and Road Fund, 2017.

• Member of House Committee on Railways, 2015-2016.

• Chairman, Road Thematic Group and Secretary to the Rail Thematic Group of the Infrastructure Policy Commission of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (RdTG & RTG/IPC-NESG), since 2008.

• Alternate Chair, Presidential Committee on White Paper President Muhammadu Buhari, 2015.

• Member, Editorial Board of “The Engineer” an official Magazine of Nigerian Society of Engineers, since 2010.

• Member, Governing Board, Transportation Growth Initiative (TGI), an industry-based nongovernmental organization established for the promotion of efficiency within the sector since 2010. • Member of Inter-Ministerial Committee on Axle Load Study and Update of Design Standards for Federal Roads, (2007).

• Member of Presidential team on Project Evaluation and Reconciliation exercise on the National Hospital, (1996).

• Secretary, Julius Berger Senior Staff Association, (1993/95).

He is currently the Director, Monitoring and Strategy in the Office of the Managing Director of FERMA. He is married with three adult children, who have started out their own lives. Olusegun Toluhi is also a writer with published works and a poet. He lives in Nigeria.

Jéssica Matavele is a Mozambican Oil and Gas Engineer, Sustainable Energy Enthusiast, Speaker, and Mentor of younger women living in vulnerable contexts.

Her professional career is driven to the accomplishment of the sustainable development global agenda. She focuses on the areas of Energy, Environment and Climate, Girls Empowerment and Education, and Innovation.
Mozambique’s lack of electricity access activated her interest in the sustainable energy transition, to tackle energy-related challenges, through a decentralized, integrated, and non-radical approach that combines renewable and non-renewable energy sources.
In the last 2 years, Jéssica has been coordinating the implementation of an innovative grassroots laboratory in Mozambican rural communities. So far, she has delivered the execution of 10 projects, developed innovative business models to private and public sector, Non-Governmental and United Nations Organizations, activated rural communities´ potential to be part of the solutions and trained more than 60 young women to become social entrepreneurs.

Jéssica has been an active Speaker at National and international events, discussing Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation in Grassroots contexts, Leadership, Sustainable Development, Energy Transition and Climate Action.
Jéssica’s passion for her career leads her to keep investing in the development of knowledge in Sustainable Technology and Energy, to ensure that she can continuously be an active leader in the energy transition and sustainable development.

Tolulope Maurice-Ekpong is one of Nigeria’s most sought after preventive health experts, wellness coach and community organizer with over 15 years post-graduation experience in the education, health and wellness and insurance sectors. She holds a double honors Master’s degree in Health Education from the University of Lagos and a first degree in Health Education from Nigeria’s prestigious University of Ibadan. She is the host of ‘Wellness with Tolu’, a podcast that is broadcast on various social media platforms as part of her continuing community engagement projects in Nigeria.

Baboloki Semele is a Botswana administrator and an aspiring international civil servant, with over 15 years senior level experience in the fields of communications, development and multilateral diplomacy.

Baboloki Semele served as  clerk/head of administration of African youth parliament from 2021 to date International Liaison Officer of African youth Union Commission from 2017-2021 Assistant Coordinator of Program for Infrastructure development in Africa (PIDA) Journalists network from 2017- date (Under African union Commission’s Department of Infrastructure and Energy), Chairperson SADC Network of Climate Journalists 2013-2017 Agenda 2063 Media Network Focal Point in Botswana effective 2018 On Remunerated posts, Semele joined National Assembly (Parliament of Botswana) as Assistant Administration and Research Officer/ Assistant Protocol Officer for Member of Parliament. The 34-year-old independent freelance journalist from Botswana, he studied BA (Hons) in Broadcasting and Journalism from 2010 – 2014 at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology.  He started his MA International Relations with University of Hertfordshire in September 2020 and is due to complete September 2022.

He believes that in order for people to understand the urgency of fighting climate change it is important that they are well informed and that they understand how their actions can matter.  During his tenure as chair of SADC network of Climate Journalists, he successfully organized media workshops for climate journalists in Africa, the major breakthrough was being able to lobby Centre for science and Environment in New Delhi, India to train a few African climate journalists prior to Cop 21 in France.

Post being chair of SADC network of climate journalists, he was given responsibility by the department of infrastructure and energy as the assistant coordinator of program for infrastructure development in Africa (PIDA) journalists network.

He is tasked with linking journalists with African Union Commission, organizing media trainings, editing PIDA newsletter as well as coordination of media reports on infrastructure development in Africa, especially bits of regional integration.

Semele prides in reporting disaster risk reduction, climate change, regional integration, food security and nutrition as well as youth and women inclusion. He has covered a number of international conferences and summits such as SADC Summit in Botswana, AU Summit in Ethiopia and Niger, Cop 22 in Morocco, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in Switzerland, EAT Forum in Sweden as well as a number of PIDA summits in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Africa, Equatorial Guinea and Congo Brazzaville.

Semele is a seasoned speech writer, director of ceremonies as well as public relations and communication enthusiast. He currently works on contract for parliament of Botswana, as Assistant Research officer in Lentsweletau-Mmopane constituency, facilitating Hon Nnaniki Makwinja, who is also the Assistant Minister of Education and Skills Development.

Durodoluwa Femi-Ajala is an environmentalist and sustainability practitioner with over four years of experience in research, advocacy, and sustainable project management. She recently earned her Bachelor of Law from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Durodoluwa believes that the hallmark of an enabling environment is sustainability. Consequently, she works with organisations that enhance these goals. In 2021, she pioneered the sustainability reporting for Consistent Energy Limited to help highlight its sustainable energy transitions for its clients and the firm, she developed its energy impact report, the first in its six years of existence, which recorded a reduction of over 13,000 tons of CO2 with over a thousand solar systems installed.

In October 2021, two nonprofits selected Durodoluwa to become the project manager for a two-day workshop – Young Lawyers for Climate Justice, Nigeria, with a purpose to enlighten law students’ understanding of their relevance within the climate justice sector. Which had a 60% success rate, with the students realising their projected goals for the project.

Durodoluwa co-founded the Youth Sustainable Development Network in 2019, which promotes intergenerational equality with a focus on youth participation, advancing SDG knowledge and implementing sustainable projects. This nonprofit has facilitated a solar irrigation project for farmers in the Epe area of Lagos State, Nigeria, thus reducing inaccessibility to clean energy and promoting sustainable energy alternatives.

Durodoluwa believing in technology and innovation as an accelerator to business and living, is a member of Krisullis, a community engaged in bridging the educational gap and transitioning people to Web 3.0. She also believes that sustainability needs to be discussed within the Web 3.0 and Blockchain space, as both should not be mutually exclusive.

Durodoluwa loves to write and expresses this through her blog – dgreenadvocate.

Benjamin Hakizimana is a Rwandan ICT and TVET expert with over 12 years’ experience in project management, TVET curricula development, digital transformation and development cooperation. Benjamin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Management from the Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA) and several certificates in TVET related subjects. He has worked on a number of projects for organizations like GIZ, the German Development Agency, UNESCO, SOS Children’s Villages, SBFIC, APEFE, Enabel, Cs KOBLENZ, among others. Benjamin lives in Kigali Rwanda. Benjamin has excellent language skills as he speaks English, French, German, Swahili and his native Kinyarwanda.

Kujo Elias McDave is the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law, at the Pentecost University College, since September, 2019. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Cape Coast from August, 2017 to July, 2019. He was appointed as the Dean in September, 2017. Before his appointment as the Dean, he was serving as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Coast. During the 2015-2016 academic year, McDave worked as Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Acting Director of Legal and Board Directorate at the Central University in Accra, Ghana.

His areas of teaching and research interest include Law of Immovable Property, Company Law, International Trade and Investment Law, Industrial/Labour Law and Intellectual Property Law, He has a number of publications to his credit. He holds a master of laws degree (LL.M) from the University of New Hampshire, School of Law, USA (1999). He was enrolled as a barrister-at-law in 1989 and joined the Ghana Bar Association the same year.  He obtained his LL.B (Hons) degree in 1987, from the University of Ghana, Legon.

He previously worked at the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s Department as an Assistant State Attorney where he rose to the rank of Principal State Attorney. He worked at various divisions of the Attorney General’s Department including the Office of the Registrar General, the Land Title Registry, the Copyright Office and the Business Law Division.

Mr. K. E. McDave subsequently pursued an advanced course in Intellectual Property in Switzerland, France and Finland on a fellowship awarded by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He was later appointed as Co-ordinator of Intellectual Property and served on the Committee of Experts charged with the responsibility of reviewing the Companies Act of Ghana. Mr. K. E. McDave represented the Government of Ghana at negotiations at the World Bank and the African Development Bank.

After 15 years of serving in the public service of Ghana, Mr. K. E. McDave moved to the private sector where he worked as a legal practitioner and consultant for six years. Mr. K. E. McDave served as Legal Counsel for the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) from 2010 to 2014 in charge of the Legal and International Cooperation Directorate. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the African University (AU) at Mutare, Zimbabwe, where he taught graduate courses in Intellectual Property organized by the African University, the WIPO and ARIPO.

As the head of the Legal and International Directorate at ARIPO, Mr. K. E. McDave represented ARIPO at the WIPO and served on a number of Working Groups in Geneva, Switzerland. He represented ARIPO at World Trade Organization (WTO) / TRIPS Council in Geneva and also represented ARIPO at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), in Alicante, Spain.

At ARIPO Mr. K. E. McDave was the Legal Advisor/Secretary to a number of bodies and committees including Council of Ministers, Board of Appeal, and the Administrative Council. He successfully negotiated, reviewed and implemented over 36 Memoranda of Understanding between ARIPO and its international cooperating partners, institutions and countries.  As an international civil servant/diplomat Mr. K. E. McDave drafted several protocols for ARIPO and Intellectual Property laws for some African member-states of ARIPO.  He has been a beneficiary of many fellowships and scholarships from various international organizations which enabled him to participate in many courses, workshops, seminars, training and conferences in several countries.

Mr. K. E. McDave is the Founder and Lead Consultant for McDave Law Consult (since 2007). He was appointed a Notary Public in October, 2019.

Saada Djadid Mahamat, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Private Law,  and is currently in the second year of a Master’s IDT (Territorial Development Engineering) at HEC-Chad University.In addition, she is the promoter of the start-up Moumtaz and an activist in several local and international civil society associations including: – Victorious Ambassador of Saleema representing Central Africa to the African Union. An initiative of the African Union with the joint program UNFPA-UNICEF for the fight against Female Genital Mutilation. – General Treasurer of the Association called “Action for Solidarity and Support for Vulnerable Layers” (ASOSCOV). A youth association that works for the poor (provides support, assistance, etc.); – Peace Ambassador at Global Peace Chain, an initiative of young people around the world whose goal is to promote peace among young people; – Representative of Pan African Female Youth Leaders (PANAFYL), an organization of young girls from the African continent, and many others.

Djimramadji MINGUEYAMBAYE believes that one of the fundamental answers to the question of the employment of young Africans is that of the adequacy between training and employment. Specialized in the field of training and professional integration (FIP), he has more than ten years of experience in the management of vocational training projects for young people in Africa. This professional background allowed him to participate in the study on “Digital Transformation of TVET and Skills Development Systems in Africa”; study commissioned by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESO). He holds a degree in private law from the University of N’djamena (Chad) and a training certificate in development project management at Bioforce in France.