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Governance structure

Warwick Hub Management

Professor Franklyn Lisk, Co-Academic Director, Africa

Professor Daniel Branch, Co-Academic Director, Africa


Warwick Africa Hub External Advisory Board

Professor Mills Soko, Professor of international Business and Strategy, Wits Business

Professor Florens Luoga, Governor of the Central Bank of Tanzania and former Deputy VC, University of Dar es Salaam

Professor Cristina D’Alessandro, Director for Overseas Territories at the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies; Professor, Science Po, Paris, Executive Education for Civil Servants from Africa; honorary professor, Riara University, Nairobi

Ms Finda Koroma, Vice President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Abuja, Nigeria; former World Bank official

Dr Hany Besada, Research Coordinator, UN Office for South-South Cooperation, New York; Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Dr Temi Abimbola, Lead Advisor to Senior Vice-President, Africa Development Bank; former Associate Professor, WBS

Professor Pamela Mbabazi, Chair, National Planning Authority, Uganda and former Deputy VC, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda

Professor Peter Quartey, Director Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana

Professor Robert Mokaya OBE, Professor of Chemistry and Pro-VC Global Engagement, University of Nottingham

Professor Kevin Ibeh, Professor of Marketing and International Business, Pro Vice Chancellor (International), Birkbeck, University of London

Ms Bience Gawanas, former UN Under Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa (2017- 2020); two-term African Union Commissioner for Social Affairs; former Ombudsperson, Government of Namibia

Dr Reuel Khoza, Businessman and academic – visiting professor, Wits Business School; Chancellor University of KwaZulu-Natal


Warwick Africa Hub Steering Committee

Professor James Hayton (WBS)

Professor Sharifah Sekalala (Law)

Professor Ann Stewart (Law)

Professor Peter Scott(IAS)

Assistant Professor Modupe Jimoh (Engineering)

Professor Yvette Hutchison (Theatre and Performance Studies)

Professor David Davies (WMS)

Associate Professor Bronwyn Harris (WMS)

Professor Pierre-Philippe Fraiture(SMLC)

Professor Olalekan Uthman (WMS)

Professor Frances Griffiths (WMS)

Dr John Burden (IAS)

Mike Haymes (ISR)

Corrina Greenwood/Joelle Maurice (ISR), secretary