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“Advancing US-Africa STEM Collaborations and Funding UM STEM-Africa Workshop “Advancing US-Africa STEM Collaborations and Funding” The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Friday, April 5th, 2013 Michigan League, Koessler Room -PROGRAM- UM STEM-Africa Workshop “Advancing US-Africa STEM Collaborations and Funding” The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Friday, April 5th, 2013 Michigan League, Koessler Room - PROGRAM SCHEDULE- Thursday, April 4 6:30 -8:30 PM Dinner meet & greet Michigan League- Kalamazoo Room (2nd Flr) Note: Nkem will meet guests at the hotel front desk at 6:15 Friday, April 5 Guests should plan to walk over to the Michigan League and arrive by 9:00 AM. Breakfast refreshments will be available in advance of the program from 8-9 AM 9:00-9:30 A.M. Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:30-10:30 A.M. “The Role of the African Diaspora and Friends in Developing the Pan-African University” Dr. Jean Pierrie Ezin, Commissioner for Human Resources, African Union 10:30-10:45 A.M. Coffee Break 11:00-12:00 P.M. “US-Africa STEM Collaborations” John Boright, Executive Director for Global Affairs, US National Academy of Science 12:00-1:00 P.M. Lunch 1:00-2:30 P.M. Panel 1: “US-Africa STEM Interface” Panel Moderator: Jerome Nriagu Professor of Environmental Chemistry University of Michigan Panelists: John Boright, NAS George Philander, Princeton Awono Onana, ECCAS Beatrice Njenga, African Union DeAndra Beck, NSF 2:30-2:45 P.M. Coffee Break 3:00-4:30 P.M. Panel 2: “US-Africa STEM Policy and Funding” Panel Moderator: Ann Petersen Research Professor Center for Human Growth and Development University of Michigan Panelists: Jean-Pierre Ezin, African Union Stan Straughter, CFA Joe Massaquoi, UNESCO East Africa Marilyn Pifer, CRDF Michael Cheetham, IUSTF 5:00-6:00 P.M. Roundtable and Recommendations Close of Workshop 6:20 P.M. Transportation to Restaurant from Michigan League 6:30-8:30 P.M. Dinner- Blue Nile Restaurant 2 Workshop Panelists (in order of presentation) Since 1972 ,Dr. Jean Pierre Ezin has occupied several posts in International Scientific Research Centers such as the Abdus Aalam Centre for Theoretical Physics and the Laurent Schwartz Centre de Mathematiques. He was a senior lecturer in high schools. He has been Rector of “Université Nationale du Be- nin”, Dean of Science, Founder and Director of the “Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences physiques” in Benin. He was Titular Professor at the Benin National University. He also served the university as mathematics lecturer. He was advisor in the Ministry in charge of Planning, Economic Restructuring and Employment. Jean-Pierre Ezin Dr. John P. Boright is Executive Director of International Af- fairs of the US National Academies of Sciences (NAS). Interna- tional activities of the NAS include cooperation with national, regional, and global groups of counterparts. A central goal of these cooperative activities is to build the capacity of the sci- ence, engineering, and medical communities to successfully engage in meeting local, national and global needs, and to in- form policy making. Boright has served in several governmen- tal positions including: Deputy to the Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; Depu- ty Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology Affairs, De- John Boright partment of State; Director of the Division of International Pro- grams, National Science Foundation; and Counselor for Scien- tific and Technological Affairs, U.S. Embassy in Paris. He re- ceived a B.A. (high honors) and Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University. Dr. Awono (Charles) Onana is the director of the National Ad- vanced School of Engineering at the university of Yaounde I, Cameroon. He has served before as the director of the school of technology at the University of Douala Cameroon. Professor AWONO Onana is deeply involved in many initiatives targeting the quality and relevance of higher education in Africa. He has been involved in several projects related to the development of higher education in Cameroon, in partnership with the World Bank, UNESCO and the African Development BANK. He is cur- rently serving as the coordinator of the Central African Centre of Excellence Project, which aims at creating six specialised Centres of Excellence in this part of the world. He received a Master of Science degree in applied cybernetics in 1981 and a Ph.D. in 1984 the same field, both in the Faculty of Cybernetics of the Mendeleev Institute, Moscow. Panelists Professor George Philander hails from Cape Town, South Afri- ca and is currently a Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Research Director at the African Centre for Climate and Earth System Science (ACCESS) in Cape Town. Professor Philander holds a SARCHI chair in Oceanography and was the father of the ACCESS idea. Dr. Philander is a world-renowned ocean- atmosphere specialist and has made significant contributions to the understanding and modeling of large-scale climate varia- bility, linking La Nina and other phenomena. He is passionate about education and the value of earth systems in inspiring young minds. His current research interests are focused on George Philander paleo-climate and on the ice ages in particular. Mr. Stan Straughter serves as Director of International Busi- ness Development in the financial management consulting practice of Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates, PC. With nearly 30 years experience in international development he has lived and worked in several countries on the continents of Afri- ca, Central Asia, the Caribbean and Russia. As a finance spe- cialist, Mr. Straughter has provided services to foreign govern- ments in governance and transparency, worked with Finance Ministers and provided advice and counsel to governments on trade policy and foreign direct investment. Stan Straughter Prof. Joseph G.M. Massaquoi has worked as University profes- sor, University administrator, international programme manag- er, and diplomat in many countries. He was for seven years (2005-2012) the Director of UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Technology in Africa (ROSTA). He was for 15 years the Co- ordinator of the African Network of scientific and technological institutions (ANSTI). He served as consultant and implemented projects for various international organizations including the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, the International Foundation for Science (IFS) of Sweden, the commonwealth Science council, African Development Founda- tion of the USA, and others. Prof. Massaquoi has published over six-dozen articles in several disciplines of engineering science Joseph G.M. Massaquoi and Science and Technology policy. Prof. Joseph G. M. Mas- saquoi obtained his Bachelors Degree (with honors) and Mas- ters Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wales in Great Britain. He also holds a doctorate degree in chemical engineering from West Virginia University, Morgan- town, USA. Panelists Dr. Marilyn Pifer is Director of Capacity Building Pro- grams, serving as the project lead for CRDF Global's higher ed- ucation programs in Russia (Basic Research and Higher Edu- cation - BRHE) and Ukraine (Cooperation in Research and Ed- ucation in Science and Technology - CREST). She also advises on the development of other university-based research pro- grams, and served in 2006 as the education expert on a Na- tional Research Council committee studying the scientific sta- tus and potential of Kazakhstan. Prior to joining CRDF Global in 2001, Dr. Pifer served twice in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, with responsibility for science cooperation in Russia and in South Asia and the Middle East. She has also Marilyn Pifer done research as a Fellow with the University of Manchester (UK)'s Programme on Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology, and through a National Academy of Sciences exchange in the Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow. Dr. Pifer holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology from Stanford Uni- versity and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from The Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Michael Cheetham has served as head of the US office of the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF) since its crea- tion on President Clinton’s visit to India in March 2000. In 2005 Mr. Cheetham founded the Indian Science and Technology Part- nership (INSTP), a non- profit organization dedicated to increas- ing linkages between the scientific communities of India and the United States. He has twenty years of experience building and managing international partnerships in science and technology, with an exclusive focus for ten years on energy and environ- ment, covering energy efficiency, renewable energy, R&D strate- gies, technology commercialization and transfer, advanced elec- tric power generation, and global climate change. From 1997 to 2004 he was a program director in the Policy and Global Affairs division, National Research Council of The National Academies. Earlier he worked on international collaborative programs for the Institute for International Education, the World Energy Effi- ciency Association, and the Atlantic Council of the United States. Panelists DeAndra Beck is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science and Engineering, with responsibility for NSF’s Developing Country initiatives and the sub-Saharan Africa portfolio. She has been working closely with the U.S. Agency for International Development to bridge the interests of science and development, including the recent launch of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Re- search (PEER-Science) initiative. These efforts are important to members of U.S. science and engineering community who wish to engage developing country partners and to developing coun- try scientists who want to participate fully in research coopera- tion with NSF-funded scientists. Dr.
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