Gabriel O. Adegoke is a Professor of Food Microbiology and Food Safety at the Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He teaches Food Microbiology, Quality Control, Plant Sanitation, Meat Technology and Fermentation Technology to undergraduate and postgraduate students. His research works centres on food safety, with particular emphasis on the HACCP system, traditional foods, natural additives and the biological and chemical hazards in food. He is also with the Codex Alimentarius Commission’s Expert Advisory Body and JECFA on the risk assessment of chemical substances in food. He has papers in several international journals with high impact factors and he has two patents and a trademark (DaniellinTM).
Adewale A. Adeniyi is a Research Fellow in Industrial Technology Management at the Technology Planning and Development Unit (TPDU) of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He received a BSc degree in Biochemistry from then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and an MSc and PhD in Technology Management from the same university. He also had professional training in Brewing Technology at Doemen’s Technikum, Grafelfing, Germany where he earned his Brewmaster’s Certificate. After a brief stay at the Food and Drugs Inspectorate of the Nigerian Ministry of Health, he worked in the brewing industry for about two decades, where he occupied various technical management positions, before joining the Obafemi Awolowo University as a Research Fellow. He was Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Technology and Innovation Department at the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Obafemi Awolowo University, in 2006 before returning to his university position in 2007. He belongs to several prestigious professional associations including the Incorporated Brewer’s Guild, London, the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and the Nigerian Institute of Management.
Augustine Ahiauzu has been a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, since 1986. He was Vice-Chancellor of the same university from 1989 to 1996. He is currently the Executive Chairman of the International Centre for Management Research and Training (CIMRAT), a management research think tank in Port Harcourt. He is a fellow and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Nigerian Academy of Management. He has pioneered research activities in the areas of African management thought and the African work behaviour with particular focus on leadership and worker motivation issues in the African workplace. He is also interested in workplace spirituality and entrepreneurship studies, particularly the development of the entrepreneurial mind and its impact on economic development. He has published the results of his research very extensively in the foregoing areas. He currently has over 80 scholarly publications, made up of books, monographs, chapters in books of readings and articles in international scholarly journals. He is a graduate of the University of London and the University of Aston in the UK.
Allam Ahmed holds a PhD in Technology Transfer with backgrounds in agriculture, economics, marketing, strategy and international business/management. He is a Fellow and Chartered Marketer of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. He is currently the Director of the MSc International Management programme of the University of Sussex (UK) and has substantial experience in research and teaching in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is the editor and author of more than 100 refereed texts and articles in a number of international journals, books, conferences, etc. He is the founding Editor of the World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WRSTSD) and the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development (WREMSD) and serves on the editorial board of five international journals. He is the founding President of the World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) and an Expert Advisor to the European Commission on International Scientific Cooperation and the United Nations.
Shams Eldein H. Ahmed has been with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production of the Sudan University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor since 2000 in the Basic Science Department. He was acting as head of the Department of Basic Science during 2006/2008. He studied for his PhD at the University of Khartoum during 1997–2000. He has contributed to various poverty eradication projects through livestock rearing in Sudan. He contributed to the water productivity project in the Nile Basin in Sudan, sponsored by ARC. He is the leader of a project on nonforest wood as animal nutrition for poor producers in Sudan.
J. T. Akinbile is a versatile Food Scientist who has an MSc from the Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
O. A. Ashaye obtained his PhD in Food Technology from the Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria in 2005. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His research activities centre on food processing and preservation with emphasis on product development and improvement on the shelf-life properties of processed foods.
Mogessie Ashenafi obtained his BSc and MSc in Biology/Microbiology at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and his PhD in Food Microbiology from the Technical University of Munich, Germany (1990). He is a Professor of Food Microbiology at the Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University. He taught advanced Food Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, the Biology of Pathogenic Microorganisms and Microbial Physiology to graduate students. His research work focuses on food safety and traditional fermented foods. His current research deals with the effect of silver nanoparticles on microbial growth. He is an elected member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). He has published about 80 papers in national, regional and international journals.
Hirut Assaye obtained her BSc in Biology (2002) from Bahir Dar University and her MSc in Applied Microbiology (2006) from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Since September 2006, she has been a Lecturer at the Department of Biology of Bahir Dar University and teaches Biology/Microbiology. Her current interests include the field of food microbiology, especially the assessment of food quality and safety and microbial dynamics of fermented food products.
Maxwell A. Ayamba is an Environmental Journalist, Writer and Researcher based at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and with the Sheffield Black and Ethnic Minority Environmental Network. Brought up in Northern Ghana, he is interested in issues of community, sustainability and the environment with particular reference to black and ethnic minority groups.
Muhammed Ademola Badamas is with the Department of Information Science and Systems, Morgan State University, USA. His research interests include global information technology and systems for development, MIS, project management and information security.
Abdulbari Bener (PhD, FFPH, FRSS) is the Head of Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Hamad Medical Corporation and Hamad General Hospital, Qatar. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Consultant for Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar University and the University of Manchester, UK. In addition to this, he is also Advisor to the WHO. He has numerous publications and focuses his interest on road traffic accidents, public health, and communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
Adil A. Dafa’Alla (BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, CEng, EurIng) graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1981. He then did his postgraduate studies and earned a PhD from UMIST in 1988. Currently, he is a CFD specialist at the HLD Group of Airbus UK. His responsibilities include the development and application of CFD to flows around aircraft. Prior to joining Airbus in 1996, Dr. Dafa’Alla obtained a vast research experience at UMIST and the Imperial College. His current research interest in wake vortices behind aircraft covers both the aircraft safety aspect and airport capacity-planning issues. Coming from a Sudanese background, Dr. Dafa’Alla has a special interest in sustainable development issues in Africa. He is an active member of the World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) and has been Associate Editor of the Journal of World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WRSTSD) since its inception in 2003.
Abdelkader Djeflat earned a PhD in Industrial Management at the University of Bath, UK (1982). Formerly a full Professor of Economics at the University of Oran in Algeria, he currently teaches at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Lille I in France. He has several books and papers on the issues of science and technology for development. He is also the founder and current Chairman of the MAGHTECH (Maghreb Technology) Network (http://www.fraternet.org/maghtech).
Abiodun A. Egbetokun graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 2003, and has recently completed a Master’s degree in Technology Management at the same university. He is an associate member of the Nigeria Institute of Management. As a Research Officer with the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Obafemi Awolowo University, he is actively involved in policy research, evaluation and review especially in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, SMEs and technological capabilities. His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Technology Management, the World Review of Entrepreneurship Management and Sustainable Development, and the International Journal of Learning.
Eltighani M. Elamin is a Professor of Agricultural Economics with the Agricultural Economic and Policy Research Center, Ministry of Science and Technology. He was awarded a PhD from Washington State University, USA in May 1987. He is also a regular Economist Consultant to EU, WFP, FAO, CARE, SC-USA, IFAD and the WB in North and East Africa and Middle-East countries in the areas of trade, poverty and food security/aid, since 1990.
Khaled Elmawazini holds a PhD in Economics from the University of East London, UK and an MA from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has published many articles on technology transfer, foreign direct investment, productivity and income gaps, globalisation and stock market efficiency in well-respected journals in economics (e.g., Atlantic Economic Journal and Applied Economics Letters). Currently, he is working as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Business at Albright College, PA, USA. Before that he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. His teaching and academic research experience is five years at the University of Ottawa, KIMEP and Albright College. In addition, he has work experience with international development, empirical research and econometric methods of about ten years. Before obtaining his PhD, he worked for the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) as an Economist in the UNDP Debt Management Project.
Raga M. Elzaki is an Agricultural Economist. She has been with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the University of Gezira, Sudan since 1994. She was awarded the scholarship from DAAD (Germany) for PhD study in University of Khartoum and Giessen during 2001–2004. Dr. Elzaki has published two papers on the livestock economic issues for poor tenants in Sudan. She is the main author of the research ‘Poverty among social groups, effects on farming systems and resources allocation: the case study of rural Sudan’ with support from the ERF, Egypt (June 2007). She is the leader of the ongoing project ‘Livelihood risk determinants facing female headed households and role of the livestock in poverty eradication in western Sudan’.
Sherine Ghoneim obtained her PhD (2000) in Information Management from the Management School, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK. She is the Director of the Global Development Network (GDN) Cairo Office and GDNet. Prior to joining the GDN, she was the Information and Communications Manager of the Economic Research Forum from 1994 to 2001.
Mohd Shukri Hajinoor has been a Lecturer in the School of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) (since 1994). He holds a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in the field of international development and regional planning. At UKM he teaches international trade, industry and business. His current research interests range from studies on the 2008 global economic crisis and its impacts on competition in industries and amongst nations to complex systems in national and regional technological innovations.
Jacques L. Hamel has obtained degrees in Engineering (Québec), Spanish (Malaga), Business Management (MBA – Paris) and Economics (PhD – LSE). After 5 years in Europe, 2 years in Latin America and 12 years in Canada, he joined the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), where he assists member states in the formulation and implementation of effective science, technology and innovation policies.
Elmouiz Siddeg Hussein (BSc (Hons), MSc) is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Khartoum, Sudan (1999). He then gained some work experience as a Mechanical Engineer at a private workshop in North Khartoum, Sudan. During this period, he also worked as a part-time Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Khartoum. He subsequently moved to the University of Portsmouth, UK, to do his MSc in Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2003–2004). In 2006, he joined Airbus UK as a Manufacturing Engineer. He manages the A350 Wing Industrial Requirements as part of applying systems engineering principles to develop a production system for the A350 wing.
Olalekan Aquila Jesuleye is the Head of the Service Delivery Unit at the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is also a doctoral student of Technology Management at the university, where he obtained his MSc in Technology Policy and Planning in 2000. He obtained his first degree in 1988 and graduated as BSc (Hons) in Economics at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. He has considerable experience in energy modelling, analysis and policy, having worked on an EEC-funded project (1989–1992) with the Institute for Energy Economics and on the rational use of energy at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Energy Analysis, Planning and Policy in 1992. He has published several articles in local and international journals. He is currently the Project Manager of a World Bank project on Technological Entrepreneurship being executed by NACETEM under the Science and Technology Post-Basic Education Project.
Sherif H. Kamel is an Associate Dean of Executive Education and Professor of MIS at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. His research and teaching interests include IT management, IT transfer to developing nations, electronic business, human resources development and decision support systems. He is the author of over 150 publications in IS and management books and journals. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cases on Information Technology, Journal of IT for Development and the Electronic Journal of IS in Developing Countries. He is a founding member of the AIS SIG GlobDev (2008). He served as a Vice President for Communications for IRMA (2000–2007). He was appointed as a Board of Trustees’ member of the Information Technology Institute (2005) and Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (2006). He is the Chairman of the Chevening Association in Egypt, an Eisenhower Fellow and a member of the Eisenhower Fellowships Alumni Advisory Council. He serves as the Co-Chair of the ICT Core Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. He holds a PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science (1994) and an MBA (1990) and a BA in Business Administration (1987) from The American University in Cairo.
Ronald Kim holds degrees in Political Science from Cornell University and Northwestern University in the USA. He has written numerous book chapters and papers and made presentations at many workshops and conferences all over the world. He is the Senior Operations Officer at the World Bank Institute in Washington, DC. His primary responsibilities include managing projects, conducting analytical work and organising events related to ICT, education, innovation and knowledge management, with a particular focus on projects in developing countries in Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked for a nongovernmental organisation that specialised in higher education reform in Eastern Europe.
Jerry Kolo is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture and Design of the American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE. His areas of teaching and research specialisation are sustainable development planning and environmental management. He came to AUS in 2006 from Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Fort Lauderdale, FL. In 1993, he founded the Center for Urban Redevelopment and Empowerment at FAU. He served on numerous local and state boards in Florida. He has an extensive consulting track record with municipalities and in working on community empowerment projects. For his community and public service, he has earned several awards, including the State of Florida Governor’s Public Service Award in 1994 and South Florida’s African-American Achiever’s Award in 1999.
Nnamdi O. Madichie, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah, UAE. He specialises in consumer behaviour, marketing, small business and enterprise development in emerging markets. He has published in renowned management journals such as the Journal of African Business, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management, International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, International Journal of Business & Emerging Markets (where he is Associate Editor) and Management Decision (where he is Book Review Editor). He is also a recipient of the Emerald Highly Commended Paper Award 2009 for a paper entitled ‘Cultural determinants of entrepreneurial emergence in a typical sub-Sahara African context’ published in Volume 2, Issue 4, of the Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy.
Ibrahim Ngouhouo graduated from the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon, obtained an MSc degree in Economics from UNIMAID, Nigeria, an MA in Economics from Ottawa University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Toulon, France (after a PhD coursework at Ottawa University). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Dschang in Cameroon (since 1999). He teaches macroeconomics and econometrics at the graduate level. He specialises in financial macroeconometrics and international finance.
Anayo Dominic Nkamnebe (PhD, Marketing), is an Associate Professor of Marketing and sub-Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. He founded Sustainability & Enterprise Initiative for Africa (SEiA), a group of researchers engaged in advocacy and research in fostering sustainable development in Africa through sustainable entrepreneurship. His work has appeared in Management Decisions, Critical Perspectives on International Business and Southwestern Business Administration Journal, among others. His previous work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation. His research interests are developmental marketing, entrepreneurship, firm internationalisation/export marketing, sustainability marketing, and microenterprises and small businesses. He is a priest in the Anglican Communion.
Sonny Nwankwo is the Director of the Petchey Centre for Entrepreneurship, UK. He is an External Assessor and Visiting Professor at universities across Africa, Europe, Australasia and North America, the founding President of the International Academy of African Business and Development and the former Vice President of the Academy of World Business. He also directs the Black Business Observatory, which aims to promote and sustain innovative forms of business among the UK’s black entrepreneurs.
A. A. Olapade is presently a Lecturer II at the Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, where he teaches Fundamentals of Food Processing, Food Process Design and Food Machinery. He is currently the Assistant National Secretary of the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology. He has relevant industrial training from the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria, where he was a Principal Research Officer. He has published educational papers in some international journals and has as his research focus the nutritional and sensory profiles of extruded cowpea and acha blends.
Ian D. Rotherham directs the work of the Tourism and Environmental Change Research Unit at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is an authority on community and environmental issues and their interactions with local economics and regeneration.
Maruf Sanni is presently a Research Officer in the Training and Research Department at NACETEM. He obtained his BS degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He has interests in technology management and policy but his main focus is energy and the environment. He has just finished participating in projects sponsored by the Henrich Boll Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria on technology transfer requirements for Nigeria in relation to climate change and adaptation to global climate change. He has been published in the International Journal of Technology Management.
Willie O. Siyanbola obtained his BSc in Physics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1983 and a PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK in 1991. He was a resource person to the Presidential Adviser (Human Resources, Science and Technology) from 2000 to 2001, and has since then been closely involved in science, technology and innovation policy research, evaluation and review. He is a fellow of the Materials Society of Nigeria and a member of the National Business Incubation Association of America, among other prestigious professional associations. As a researcher, he has published extensively in the areas of materials science and solar energy. For many years, he was a resource person to the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Obafemi Awolowo University, before becoming the Director-General/CEO of the centre in 2006. At NACETEM, Dr. Siyanbola now oversees policy research activities for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and is a regular speaker at local and international STI policy debates.
Ihab Tewfik is the Course Leader for BSc in Human Nutrition, University of Westminster, UK. Besides his biochemistry background, he holds a Master and a Doctorate in Public Health-Nutrition from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in addition to a PhD from London South Bank University. He has worked as an International Consultant for UNICEF and BC. As a Registered Public Health Nutritionist, his current research interest is body fat and its relationship with metabolic syndrome indicators in overweight childhood and adolescent stages. He also has an interest in food sciences and technology transfer. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of many international journals and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.
Sundus Tewfik is the Course Leader of BSc in Herbal Medicinal Sciences, School of Human Sciences, London Metropolitan University, UK. She was qualified as a Multi-Disciplinary Biological Scientist in 1991. She holds a Master in Applied Microbiology and a PhD in Pharmacognosy from the University of Westminster. She is registered as a Biomedical Scientist at the Health Professions Council (HPC) and Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science. Additionally, Tewfik is a Chartered Scientist at the Science Council, UK. She has carried out numerous research projects on various aspects of herbal medicine: biochemical analyses, antimicrobial testing, identification of ‘biologically active’ components and quality control of natural products.
