UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT

East and Central Africa
Kevin Chika Urama (b.1969: Nigeria) is the Inaugural
Managing Director and Head of Research at the
Quantum Global Research Lab in Switzerland. He is
former Executive Director of the African Technology
Policy Studies Network, based in Nairobi (Kenya) and
Inaugural President of the African Society for Ecological
Economics. He holds a PhD in Land Economy from the
University of Cambridge in the UK. He is also an Extra-
Ordinary Professor at the School of Public Leadership of
Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and a Fellow of the
African Academy of Sciences.
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Mammo Muchie (b. 1950: Ethiopia) is the holder of the
Department of Science and Technology and National
Research Foundation’s joint South African Research Chair
at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria (South
Africa). Prof. Muchie is also Senior Research Associate at
Oxford University (UK). He is founding chief editor of the
journal on African Science, Technology, Innovation and
Development and of the Ethiopian open access Journal
on Research and Innovation Foresight. He holds a DPhil in
Science, Technology and Innovation from the University
of Sussex (UK).
Remy Twiringiyimana (b.1982: Rwanda) is Advisor
to the Minister of Education. He is former Director
of Research and Development at the Directorate
of Science, Technology and Research within the
Ministry of Education and has worked, in the past,
for the Higher Education Council as an Institutional
Auditor and Programme Reviewer. He holds an MSc in
Communications, Control and Digital Signal Processing
from the University of Strathclyde (UK). Since 2012, he
has been the national contact person at the NEPAD
agency for the African Science, Technology and
Innovation Initiative.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors wish to thank Jeremy Wakeford from the
Quantum Global Research Laboratory in Switzerland
for contributing information for the country profiles of
Cameroon, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya and Uganda.
Thanks go also to Dr Abiodun Egbetokun from Tshwane
University of Technology (South Africa) for his assistance in
collecting data for the present chapter.
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