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PROF. LAILA EL BARADEI - EgyptProf. Laila El Baradei is associate dean for the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) and professorof public administration at the American University in Cairo. She is also a professor of public administrationat the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.El Baradei is a graduate of AUC with a BA degree in business administration with highest honors in 1983 andan MBA in 1988. She received her PhD in public administration from Cairo University in 1998.Her research interests and publications cover the areas of development cooperation management,decentralization, organizational change, public administration reform, governance, child labour, downsizing,and accountability. El Baradei has co-authored Egypt’s Human Development Report 2010, 2008 and 2004;Egypt’s Millennium Development Goals Second Country Report 2004, and the World Bank’s CountryEnvironmental Analysis for Egypt published in 2005. Over the years, she has has also provided consultancyservices to the World Bank, USAID, UNDP, DANIDA, Center for Development Research in Bonn, theEconomic Research Forum in Egypt, and Ford Foundation.DR. SULLEY GARIBA - GhanaDr. Sulley Gariba, is an evaluation specialist and policy analyst with nearly 30 years of experience withstrategic institutions in Africa and internationally. He has provided leadership to several community and ruraldevelopment initiatives across Ghana, which earned him the Millennium Excellence Award for RuralDevelopment in 2005. He was the Founding President of the International Development EvaluationAssociation (IDEAS), and former President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), was former lecturer atthe University for Development Studies in Tamale, is currently the Executive Director of the Institute forPolicy Alternatives, a policy think-tank in Ghana. Since 2009 has been serving as the Development PolicyAdvisor to the President of Ghana, focusing on the Savannah Accelerated Development Strategy fordevelopment equity in Ghana. He has been a leading member of the National Development PlanningCommission. He has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Hisfirst degree was from University of Ghana.IRENE KARANJA - KenyaIrene Karanja is a specialist in participatory research, community organizing and capacity building of theurban poor. In the last 10 years, Irene was been instrumental in establishing the Research and Advocacy unitof the Pamoja Trust and has transformed participatory data collection techniques into a major instrument thatallows slum dwellers to assume leadership of settlements through savings, housing cooperatives and womens’groups. Irene’s major accomplishments include facilitating the federation of slum dwellers in Kenya(Muungano wa Wanavijiji) to undertake settlement planning, settlement up-grading and tenure regularisationof informal settlements across Kenya and leveraging government departments to use participatory urbanplanning processes as the first step to settlement upgrading.As the founding Executive Director of Muungano Support Trust (MuST), she has works with Private and PublicInstitutions to resource urban poor projects in nine urban areas in Kenya. She recently served as an advisor tothe Kenyan Government for the resettlement of 10,000 poor households in Kenya.HAJIA ALIMA MAHAMA - GhanaHajia Alima Mahama is a prominent Ghanaian human rights lawyer and gender equality specialist. She, untilrecently, served as an advisor to the post conflict government of Liberia on gender and development policiesunder a UN and Government of Liberia Joint Programme on Attainment of MDG3. She previously wasGhana’s Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs, Deputy Minister of Local Government and RuralDevelopment, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry and Member of Parliament. Trained as a lawyer, and anearly champion of women’s equality in northern Ghana, she has worked as an advisor on a wide range ofdonor-funded projects in Ghana and Liberia, including for DANIDA, CIDA, IFAD and others. A member of awide range of professional and policy networks, Mahama earned a BA from the University of Ghana and herlaw degree from the Ghana Law School, as well as an MA in development studies from the Institute of SocialStudies in The Hague. She was a Pearson Fellow of University of Ottawa, Canada and a Hubert HumphreyFellow at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.African Thought Leaders Forum on Evaluation and Development, Bellagio, Nov 2012 53