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Commonwealth of Independent States
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
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Svetlana Yurevna Zaginaichenko was recently appointed to the post of vice-director of the Institute of Hydrogen and Solar Energy of the Academy of Natural Progress in Kiev, Ukraine. Prior to this position, she was an associate professor at the Metallurgical Institute in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine and earned degrees in physics at Dnepropetrovsk State University. As a LEAD Associate, Dr. Zaginaichenko brings an interest in the foundry industry, specifically in the area of metallurgical quality.
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Indonesia
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Swary Utami Dewi (Tami for short) is a member of the Working Group on Community Empowerment, set up by (then) the Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia, from November 2006 until now. This work is a voluntary basis. The working group works to help the Minister of Forestry and high-ranked officials of the Ministry evaluate and accelerate policies on the empowerment of forest dwellers in Indonesia. The Working Group has promoted policies and implemention on Hutan Desa (Village Forest), Hutan Kemasyarakatan (Community Forest) and Hutan Tanaman Rakyat (People’s Plantation Forest) in many sites across Indonesia. She has involved in related activities to accelerate forestry legal licences for community/farmer groups as well as the implementation in Yogyakarta, West and East Nusa Tenggara, Lampung, Jambi, Riau, South Sumatra, North Sumatra, Bangka Belitung, Bengkulu, Bali, Kalimantan (South, East, West and Central), Southeast Sulawesi, South Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi.
Tami is also a founder of Kawal Borneo Community Foundation (KBCF). The organization nowadays focuses on the issues of livelihood improvement and sustainable forest management by the community. It supports community empowerment and capacity building in some sites in Kalimantan. Tami acts as a networking expert (voluntary basis) of KBCF and helps build and strengthen the organization’s networks with stakeholders at all levels. Tami was a part-time advisor/consultant for government engagement of the Economic and Environmental Government Cluster of Partnership until December 2008, and then she was a networking expert for the Working Group on Community Empowerment from October 2009 to April 2010 funded by the Partnership. She was also the manager of community development division of Borneo Tropical Rainforest Foundation (BTRF), a Swizerland-based international NGO, in Indonesia (2007). The NGO focused on the issues of climate change, forest conservation and community empowerment. Before, Tami was the regional facilitator for Kalimantan of the British Government's Department for International Development (DFID) Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme (MFP) in Indonesia from 2001 until December 2006. The programme mainly promoted the collaboration among stakeholders to empower the forest-dependant poor, leading to poverty alleviation. Tami managed the programme in Kalimantan and worked with various stakeholders to create better livelihood for forest dwellers. Previously, Tami was the national project manager of the UNIFEM-UNFPA Project office in Indonesia (2000-2001), focusing on the elimination of violence against women. With some leading activists, she established LAPASIP, the Institute for Advocacy of Civil and Political Rights and was active in the NGO up to 1998. In 1996-1997, Tami was the head of Social Services and Public Relations Department of Youth Islamic Study Club (YISC) Al-Azhar, a Jakarta-based NGO for young people. In addition, she had experience as a free-lance journalist of a daily newspaper in Indonesia, as well as of a bi-weekly Indonesian newspaper in Australia. In 1998, Tami was awarded the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) which enabled her to pursue her Masters degree in Police Studies, at School of Public Policy of Monash University, Australia. Tami took her bachelor degree (S1) in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) and diploma degree in French Language. Both were taken at the University of Indonesia. During her study for S1-Degree, Tami also got 2 awards as the outstanding student. Tami has participated in training on several issues (gender, forestry, poverty, facilitation, community development, climate change etc) in Indonesia and abroad (such as Netherland, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, the Phillipines, Mexico and the USA). She has also become a resource person of some training, seminars or courses. She is also a fellow of LEAD (Leadership for Enviroment and Development) since 2002. In July 2009, Tami attended training of Climate Change by The Climate Project Alliance in Melbourne (Australia) and then in June 2010 she attended the further training on the same subject in Nashville (Tennessee, USA). Al Gore (the former Vice President of USA and the Nobel-price winner) himself taught the participants of the two training. Since July 2009, she has become a presenter of The Climate Project Indonesia who has a task to promote understanding and actions around the issues of climate change in Indonesia. She has made presentations on the issues of climate change in Central and South Kalimantan, Bengkulu, Jakarta and Southeast Sulawesi. Tami now lives in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan. Coming from the background of Dayak Ngaju, a native group of Central Kalimantan/Borneo, she speaks fluently Dayak Ngaju language. She also speaks some other Indonesian native languages (actively: Jambi, Banjar, Palembang; passively: Bakumpai, Sunda, Malay and Padang). In addition, she also speaks some French. She has lived in some towns/cities such as Jakarta, Banjarbaru (South Kalimantan), Palangkaraya (Central Kalimantan), Jambi and Melbourne (Australia). Her fields of interest are in the issues of community empowerment, gender, good governance, indigenous people, poverty, climate change, forestry, environment, conflict resolution and culture. Tami has had some published articles in books and newspapers on the issues of natural environment, gender and local people empowerment. In January 2009, she wrote an article on gold mining issues in Kalimantan for the National Geographic Indonesia. Tami has also written some short stories. She regularly writes and puts her ideas in her blog: www.sudewi2000.wordpress.com. In addition, she loves photography and puts some of the taken pictures in her blog. |
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Pakistan
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
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Mr. Mansur has a degree in Electrical Engineering. He also holds an aircraft maintenance engineer's license on electrical instruments & autoflight guidance systems. He is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (Pak. Div.), the Society of Aircraft Engineers- Pakistan, Associate Royal Aeronautical Society UK and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (Pak). In addition, he has attended many technical courses on aviation, technology, business administration, airline technical administration and various aspects of information technology. Currently he works as an Aircraft Engineer with the Pakistan Engineering and Maintenance Department, Pakistan International Airlines. Mr. Mansur specializes in avionics, one of the most advanced fields in aerospace/aviation technology. He has worked on environmental issues within the airline industry and would like to further pursue this line of work.
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Pakistan
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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Syed Mahmood Nasir holds a Masters degree in Forestry, a post-graduate diploma in Geographical Information Systems GIS from the ITC the Netherlands and is enrolled as a PhD scholar in anthropology at the Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad (Dissertation on Bakarwal nomads who spend most of their life in forests).
He is widely traveled during his career in the field of forestry and environment. He was the elected president of the Students' Association Board at ITC where he actively worked in the social, cultural and academic affairs with people of approximately 40 nationalities. He has good mixed experience as a forestry and environmental practitioner and at the policy, practitioner and research levels. He has served in the Forest Department as Conservator of Forests, the federal Ministry of Environment as DIG Forests, Director Biodiversity and Deputy Secretary International Cooperation and is now associated with SDPI. He is the driving force for many environmental initiatives that include the creation of Pakistan's largest environment related mailing list the 'Allforesters', catalyzing the first research on vulture decline in Pakistan, authoring Pakistan's First and Third Reports for the Convention on Biodiversity and organizing pastoralists' participation in the World Gathering of Nomads at Segovia Spain 2007. He also has more than 12 publications and many reports on various aspects of the Environment. He has also authored the Management Plan for Chitral Gol National Park, the first attempt to address diverse environmental and social issues in Pakistan (December 2007. He is a member of the Scientific Committee WWF Pakistan. |
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Pakistan
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Pakistan
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Mr. Qutub has twenty-six years of experience in the areas of environment conservation, sustainable development, and urban regional planning. He specializes in strategy and program formulation, policy advice, leadership of multi-disciplinary teams, and in the facilitation of public meetings and expert workshops. As founder member and currently President of PIEDAR, a non-profit institution, he is involved in environmental action research with grassroots organizations in 32 villages and eight low-income communities in the Punjab, NWFP, and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. From 1988-1991, he was the coordinator and principal writer of the National Conservation Strategy (NCS). Earlier, Mr. Qutub led research teams on the various aspects of urban policy and planning. Mr. Qutub has also worked as a senior consultant in two Mid-East countries and undertaken consultancy assignments for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), CIDA, the Dutch Government, the United Nations Commission for Human Settlement (UNCHS), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Bank. He has participated in prestigious international working groups, including UNEP, the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Taskforce on Biodiversity. Mr. Qutub is also a member of several leading associations including the IUCN Commission on Environment Strategy and Planning, and the Independent Group for South Asian Cooperation (IGSAC). He has published several papers in reputed international journals on the environment, population, and urbanization. He also represented Pakistan at the 11th Plenary of the Inter-Government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Rome in 1995. He is mentioned in the Who's Who in the World's Environment and Conservation (Earthscan/IUCN 1997).
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Pakistan
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Mr. Syed Khurram Rizvi has to his credit a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from NED. He was selected and offered a Job by EXXON Chemicals, even before he graduated. The professional career of Khurram progressed from an entry level operation's engineer to now a Lead Quality and Environmental Auditor registered Internationally. In his present capacity Khurram is associated with not only a single organization, but a host of national and international companies where his expertise are put to test in technical evaluations of management systems. Providing assistance in the companies efforts to bring the cultural change, Khurram in his capacity plays a pivoting role in educating the company personnel on the benefits of effective systems during the course of his audits.
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Pakistan
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Pakistan
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Syed Tahir Hussain Naqvi has been working as a Chief Operating Officer in a project for Karachi Educational Development Centre (CDGK), for the last two years. His major responsibilities are to organize and manage various capacity building programmes for school leaders, teachers and other staff members. In addition, he contacts the school stakeholders and officials on a regular basis, for the short and long-term planning and implementation of programmes. He regularly reports on mechanisms to the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Committee, for monitoring and improvement of CDGK Schools and CDGK hierarchy. He started his career as an English teacher and gradually excelled in the field of education. He acquired the required qualification and knowledge, to take leadership positions in the field of Educational Leadership and Management.
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Pakistan
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Syed Tauqir Hussain SHAH is a civil servant presently working for the Government of Punjab, as Deputy Secretary. His previous assignment was Deputy Secretary to the Chief Minister (who is the Chief Executive of the province of Punjab), in the largest province of Pakistan that has a popuation of 70 million. He belongs to the fast track cadre of civil service of Pakistan called the District Management Group. Prior to this he worked as Additional Deputy Commissioner in one of the districts in potowar plateau in northern part of Punjab province and was an Assistant Commissioner in three different sub-districts of Punjab.
In the capacity of field officer as Additional Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner I performed a variety of duties that included muncipal administration, land and revenue administration, criminal administration of justice as a magistrate, flood relief, management of elections,co-ordination between Non-Governmental Organisations and Governmental agencies,supervision of different government departments (i.e Health, Education, Irrigation,Police,Civil defence),and also headed the environmental offences court. From 1987-1990 he worked as a medical doctor (MBBS) and later appeared in competitive civil service examination in 1990. He also holds a masters (MSc) in human resource management(HRM) from University of Manchester in 1998. |
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Pakistan
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Anglophone and West Africa
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Sylvester Tunde ATERE has been reporting on housing and environment issues since 1995. His focus before this was on crime and transport. He is interested in applying the skills of journalism - clarity of expression, in-depth analysis, objective presentation of facts and a commitment to social justice, equity and freedom - to issues of concern to LEAD: ozone depletion, desertification, flooding, erosion, overgrazing, illiteracy, unsustainable consumption of resources and other developmental problems. S.T. Atere has a bachelor's degree from Ondo State University, Ado-Ekiti (1991) and a master's degree in English Literature from the University of Lagos (1997).
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Europe
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Sylvia GYÖRKÖS is with the news department of Tv2, where she selects and edits foreign news reports and prepares a daily environmental magazine. At Hungarian Television News from 1992 to 1997, she was foreign news editor, contact-person for Eurovision and a frequent participant at international conferences. In 1992, she worked for HBO Hungary and prepared the daily broadcast schedule, corresponded with local media companies and provided creative input concerning programming decisions.
S. Györkös graduated in 1991 from ELTE TFK, Budapest, after studying English, Russian, philosophy, psychology and pedagogy. She has also expanded her education through visits to news organizations and television stations such as Reuters, AP, BBC, SVTetc, and to information officers at international organizations such as UNHCR. |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
2008-2009 - Cohort 14
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Syrym NURGALIEV is Director of a private foundation “Nurdana†operating in the field of developing current and new research and educational programs in energy and environment protection and high technologies in Kazakhstan. He is a member of Climate Change Coordination Centre. Co-author of Scientific and Research Papers inter alia: “Guidelines on ODS Import/Export Regulation in the Republic of Kazakhstanâ€, “Good Practices in Refrigeration†“Improvement of Methodological Approaches to Evaluating ODS Consumption in Kazakhstan; Development of ODS Import/Export Monitoring System; Management of ODS Phase-out Process; Identification of ODS Growth Causes; Development of National ODS Cadastreâ€.
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India
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Dr Triloki Nath Khoshoo was Secretary, Department of Environment and Forests, Government of India, from 1982-85. He is a distinguished scientist ,a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding), and is the author of numerous publications on Botanical research. He has won several prestigious awards such as the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Prize in Environment, the Padma Bhushan, Ramdeo Medal of the Indian Environmental Society, Seth Memorial Medal for outstanding work on forest tree cytogenetics and UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize for the year 1996. Presently he is Distinguished Fellow in Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi.
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Francophone Africa
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Japan
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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Tadahiko SHIMIZU is a reporter covering political and social issues for Mainichi Newspapers. When in Nagoya, a large city in the industrial hinterland of Honshu, his reporting concentrated on issues such as the illegal dumping of industrial waste, the construction of waste processing plants and a host of other environmental matters in the area. Prior to this, while working at the Kofu bureau in central Honshu, he gathered information about the late Mr. Shin Kanemaru, a local Diet member known in political circles as 'The Godfather'.
T. Shimizu's interest in the conflict between developers and conservationists was sparked following an incident in which a local town major was assaulted for opposing the construction of a waste processing plant. He continues to be interested in discovering ways to achieve a balance between developers and conservationists. He is currently studying the topic of endocrine disrupters. |
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Japan
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Former President and Adviser, Environmental Information Center
Senior Adviser, Sakura Institute of Research. |
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Francophone Africa
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Pakistan
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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Mr. Rasheed holds a Masters in Forestry with a specialization in watershed management from the Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar in 1990 and served in Balochistan Rural Support Program as Subject Matter Specialist. He joined WWF-Pakistan as Senior Conservation Officer in 1996 and presently working as Social Scientist in Chitral Gol National Park. Since then, he has been involved in various Environment/Natural Resource Conservation oriented initiatives in different regions of Pakistan. Meanwhile he also did his masters in Rural Development in 1997 as an external student from Sindh Development Study Center affiliated with Wye College of London, University of Sindh, and Pakistan. He is also a law graduate and is presently enrolled with Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan as a Ph.D scholar in Anthropology. His training in Forestry, Rural Development, and work experience with different communities provided him a good mix of experience regarding local environmental as well as developmental issues. For the present position, his terms of reference (TOR) include project planning, monitoring and evaluation of proposed activities, establishing plant banks, managing the protected areas, conducting floral and faunal surveys, organizing training events, assisting and organizing the communities, and developing linkages of self-help organizations with Government and other NGOs. He holds vast exposure in supervising and coordinating conservation activities and secured national and international funding wherever needed. He has also represented WWF-P and Pakistan at different national and international forums.
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Pakistan
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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I am currently working with Bridgeway consulting as a manager Consulting. Previously I worked with Marie Stopes Society as a Field Coordinator. As a coordinator I liaised with the Population Welfare Department and National Health of FP and PHC in providing reproductive health facilities to rural areas of NWFP. I have also arranged trainings for the new staff in regional office of Marie Stopes Society, Peshawar. I participated in the Training of “VSC camp Monitoring and Scanning†arranged by Marie Stopes International (Bangladesh, Dhaka. I have also actively participated in social welfare activities. I have participated in the relief activities in the earthquake areas with Government and non-governmental agencies. I am an MBA degree holder with my majors in marketing.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Graduated from the Stavropol State University with honours in 2001. Got the Master degree in history. From 2001 to 2004 – post-graduate courses on the subject of General History. In 2004 defended the doctorate thesis: “Canadian-Soviet relations (1942-1953): main tendencies and trendsâ€. Got a scientific degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. Since 2004 a member of Russian Society of Studying Canada.
Taisia took part in many all-Russia and international scientific conferences (including dedicated to sustainable development) hold in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Volgograd, Pyatigorsk etc. She is the autor of more than articles, including those dedicated to the history and the present situation in the European Union, Canada and Russia. At present Taisiya works at Moscow Banking Institute(educational) in the position of a senior tutor in the field of psychology of business communication, history, culturology, etc. Interested in the environmental protection issues. A quick learner, laborious, self-motivated |
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Anglophone and West Africa
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Japan
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Takahiro NAGATA has been with the environmental affairs department of Tokyo Gas Company since July 1997. He conducts research on life cycle assessment and energy savings for commercial buildings. He also participates in the CO2 Working Group of the Japan Gas Association. He joined Tokyo Gas in 1986 as a manager of the Los Angeles (USA) representative's office in the research and development department. There he conducted research and development on industrial applications, the environment, energy and new technologies. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Waseda University in Tokyo.
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Southern and Eastern Africa
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Japan
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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Takashi MUKAI is a manager at the Environmental Affairs Department of the Tokyo Gas Company. His principal responsibilities are setting the numerical targets for the '3 Rs' - reduce, reuse and recycle - by establishing promotion guidelines and promoting the activities for attaining them.
Takashi earned a PhD in environmental control in biology at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (1988). He is currently interested in issues involving environment, food and waste. |
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Southern and Eastern Africa
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Takawira William NDIRIPO is divisional manager for the sustainable natural resources management division of ENDA - Zimbabwe, a local NGO. He worked extensively with rural communities in raising awareness of woodland resource management, notably the integration of fruit trees into subsistence and agropastoral farming systems. Other professionals experiences have been in the areas of urban agriculture, environmental impact assessment, and income generating activities for women. He has a bachelor's degree with honors degree in ecology and zoology from the University of Zimbabwe.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1992-1994 - Cohort 1
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Talaibek Dzhamashevich KOICHUMINOV (Talay) was the Minister of economy and finances of the Kyrghyz Republic. His hobby is painting. His Ph.D. in economics is from Kyrghyz State University's mathematics department.
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Brazil
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Southern and Eastern Africa
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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Tamala Tonga KAMBIKAMBI is an agronomist, lecturing in the School of Agricultural Sciences. Apart from lecturing, she conducts research and is consulted on various issues. She also seats on several national, regional and international Boards like that of the Southern Africa Biodiversity Support Programme (SABSP), Africa Biotechnology Stakeholders Forum (ABSF), LEAD SA and the Biotechnology Outreach Society of Zambia (BOSZ).
Tamala has invaluable experiences in rural extension and development, and poverty alleviation. Of late, with the growing debate on biotechnology in the region and particularly in Zambia, she has turned her energies to bringing 'sanity' to the rather skewed debates that have and are still going on in the country. To do so, she has helped to found the Biotechnology Outreach Society of Zambia whose main objective is to create an innovative and enabling environment in Zambia through education enhanced understanding and awareness creation on all aspects of biotechnology, biosafety and intellectual property rights. She is also a national correspondent for the FAO on biotechnologies in developing countries. Tamala has decided to dedicate her energies for the time being to biotechnology as it is a technology with the potential to enhance and or aid sustainable development so long as the concerns and risks are properly handled. However, it has been given an unfair trial - therefore as a LEADer, she believes this is a challenge worth taking on! Tamala's main research areas include biotechnology for sustainable agriculture, biosafety, and gender issues in science and technology. She has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, has great statistical and computer skills and is well versed in policy analysis and other analytical assignments. |
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