In the proposal submitted to the Executive Committee of the ISSBD by the University of Zambia to host the 2010 Biennial International Congress in Lusaka, Zambia, the local Organising Committee proposed to establish an African Research Advisory Panel, "in order to make the congress truly representative of the diversity of the African continent, and to ensure adequate representation of the priority scientific concerns and professional activities of behavioral science in the various nations of Africa". The panel is conceived as a regional consortium of leading developmental scientists within the continent, advisory to the International Scientific Programme Committee. It is composed of invited delegates from institutions which have hosted the African regional workshops of the Society since 1992 (details of which are listed in the document attached to this page) as well as a few other institutions known to include a sizable nucleus of developmental researchers. Membership of the panel is as follows:
Dr Esther Akinsola, University of Lagos, Nigeria Prof Peter Baguma, University of Makerere, Uganda Prof Andrew Dawes, University of Cape Town, South Africa Dr Hirut Tefferi, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dr Mambwe Kasese-Hara, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Prof Elias Mpofu, formerly of the Universities of Zimbabwe and Botswana, Prof Bame Nsamenang, University of Yaounde, Bamenda, Cameroon Dr Paul Oburu, Maseno University, Kenya Prof Robert Serpell, University of Zambia Prof Leickness Simbayi, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Prof Roderick Fulata Zimba, University of Namibia Robert Serpell Conference Chair October 2008 |
African Research Advisory Panel |