Board on African Science Academy Development (BASAD)
Enriqueta C. Bond(IOM), Chair
Private Consultant
Marshall, Virginia
Enriqueta Bond, PhD, recently retired as President of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, an independent private foundation whose mission is to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Dr. Bond received her undergraduate degree in zoology and physiology from Wellesley College, her master's degree in biology and genetics from the University of Virginia, and her Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemical genetics from Georgetown University. Dr. Bond served as the Executive Officer for the Institute of Medicine from 1989 to 1994 before serving as president of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund (July 1994-present). In addition to her current position, she has also served on the Board of Health Sciences Policy at the Institute of Medicine, the Board of the Society for the Advancement of Research on Women's Health, and the Board of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, and as the Vice Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the chair of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine.
Jo Ivey Boufford (IOM) ex officio President
The New York Academy of Medicine
Professor
New York University School of Medicine
In addition to serving as President of The New York Academy of Medicine, Jo Ivey Boufford, MD, is Professor of Public Service, Health Policy and Management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. She served as Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University from June 1997 to November 2002. Prior to that, she served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from November 1993 to January 1997, and as Acting Assistant Secretary from January 1997 to May 1997. While at HHS, she served as the U.S. representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1994–1997. From May 1991 to September 1993, Dr. Boufford served as Director of the King's Fund College, London England. Dr. Boufford served as President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest municipal hospital system in the United States, from December 1985 until October 1989. She was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine in 1992. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY in May 1992. She received her B.A. (Psychology) magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, and her M.D., with distinction, from the University of Michigan Medical School. She is Board Certified in pediatrics.
George Bugliarello (NAE) ex officio President Emeritus
University Professor
Polytechnic University
New York
George Bugliarello, ScD, President Emeritus (having served as president from 1973 to 1994), University Professor and former chancellor (1994-2003) of Polytechnic University, is an engineer and educator with a broad background ranging from civil engineering to computer languages, biomedical engineering and science policy. A graduate of the University of Padua and of the University of Minnesota, he holds a Doctor of Science degree in engineering from MIT. He is now serving a four-year term as Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Engineering, of which he has been a member since 1987. He has been honored by the Engineering News-Record as one of "Those Who Made Marks" in the construction industry in recognition of the creation of Metrotech, the nation's largest urban university-industry park. He has been president of The Sigma Xi – the Scientific Research Society, and past president and honorary lifetime member of the National Association of Science, Technology and Society. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served as chairman of the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee, and of the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for Science Education. He is founder and co-editor of Technology In Society - An International Journal, Interim Editor-in-Chief of The Bridge, and has published and lectured extensively. Dr. Bugliarello’s international experience includes consultancies abroad for UNESCO and OECD, including the review of the science policies of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Turkey; assignments as specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Venezuela and Central Africa; a NATO senior faculty fellowship at the Technical University of Berlin; membership on the U.S.-Egypt Joint Consultative Committee of The National Academies, foreign membership of the Venetian Institute of Sciences, Arts and Letters, membership on the Board of Advisors of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and on the National Academy of Sciences Joint Mexico-U.S. Committee for the Review of Graduate Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and being U.S. member of the Science for Peace Steering Group of NATO, and of NATO's Science for Stability Steering Group.
Michael T. Clegg (NAS) ex officio Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences,
Department of Ecology & Evolution
University of California, Irvine
Michael T. Clegg, PhD, received his BS and PhD degrees in agricultural genetics and genetics respectively at the University of California, Davis. In 1972 he joined the faculty of Brown University moving from there to the University of Georgia in 1976. In 1984, he served as Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Riverside and served as Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences from 1994 to 2000. He is founding Director of the Genomics Institute at the University of California, Riverside. In 2004, Dr. Clegg became the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of California, Irvine. Clegg’s research specialty is population genetics and molecular evolution. His early work in population genetics focused on the dynamical behavior of linked systems of genes in plant and Drosophila populations. During this period, he also contributed to the theoretical study of multilocus systems employing computer simulations together with the analysis of mathematical models. Later he helped pioneer the comparative analysis of chloroplast DNA variation as a tool for the reconstruction of plant phylogenies. His current work is concerned with the comparative genomics of plant gene families, the molecular evolution of genes in the flavenoid biosynthetic pathway, the use of coalescent models to study crop plant domestication and the application of molecular markers to avocado improvement. Clegg was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Sciences in 1990 and he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He was elected Foreign Secretary of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002. He has also served as President of the American Genetic Association (1987), President of the International Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution (2002) and Chair of the Section on Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003).
Phillip A. Griffiths (NAS) Professor, School of of Mathematics
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton Township, N.J.
Phillip A. Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor of Mathematics and served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1991 to 2003. Prior to joining the Institute for Advanced Study, he was Provost and James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University for eight years. From 1972-83 he was a Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He has also taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1968-70. Still an active researcher in mathematics, he also teaches mathematics graduate courses at Princeton University and supervises Princeton graduate students. Dr. Griffiths is Secretary of the International Mathematical Union. As Chairman of the Science Institutes Group, Dr. Griffiths leads the Millennium Science Initiative (MSI), whose primary goal is to strengthen the science and technology capacity of developing nations through programs of research and training planned and driven by local scientists. The MSI is a combined effort of the international scientific community, the World Bank, major foundations, and bilateral donors, who work together to integrate science and technology into country development strategies. Dr. Griffiths serves as a special advisor to the Mellon Foundation, and he is a Distinguished Presidential Fellow for International Affairs at The National Academies. A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Dr. Griffiths received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Among his professional associations, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and he is a Foreign Associate of the Third World Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He was a member of the National Science Board from 1991-1996. A former member of the Board of Directors of Bankers Trust New York Corporation, he currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Oppenheimer Funds and of GSI Lumonics. Dr. Griffiths is a member of the New York Yacht Club. Dr. Griffiths has three daughters and one son. His wife Marian is a neurologist.
Princeton Lyman Adjunct Senior Fellow for African Policy Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
New York
Princeton Lyman, PhD, is former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and to South Africa. He was Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations in the Clinton administration. Princeton Lyman is currently Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he was Director of the Global Interdependence Initiative at the Aspen Institute, a project coordinating the efforts of advocacy, business, and humanitarian groups to cope with the tensions created by contemporary globalization. He is author of the book Partner to History, which recounts his experience in South Africa during the transition from Apartheid to democracy. As Assistant Secretary, Dr. Lyman was responsible for the formation and implementation of U.S. policies with regard to the UN and UN agencies and other international organizations. On UN issues, he works in cooperation with the U.S. mission to the UN. From 1992 through 1995, Dr. Lyman served as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa during that country's transition from apartheid to democracy. He was Director of the State Department's Bureau for Refugee Programs from 1989 to 1992. Prior to that assignment he served as U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria for three years. In the early 1980s he served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Dr. Lyman entered government service in 1961. His domestic assignments as a Foreign Service officer also have included USAID's Bureau of Program and Policy Coordination, USAID's Bureau of African Affairs, and the Institute for Scientific and Technical Cooperation. He also served overseas in Seoul, Korea, and as Director of the U.S.A.I.D. Mission to Ethiopia. He is a recipient of numerous Presidential and State Department performance awards. Dr. Lyman has a bachelor's degree from the University of California and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Narciso Matos Executive Director
Foundation for Community Development
Mozambique
Narciso Matos, PhD, is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Community Development in Mozambique. Dr. Matos holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Mozambique (1975), and Humboldt University in Germany (1985). Dr. Matos has worked at several academic and administrative levels at UEM. In the late 1980’s, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science, and from 1990 to 1995 was Vice Chancellor of UEM. He served as member of the Mozambique’s Parliament from 1986 to 1995, five of those years in the Parliament’s Committee for International Relations. He served as Secretary General of the Association of African Universities (www.aau.org), headquartered in Ghana, during the years 1995-2000, when he was also member of the Advisory Group on Higher Education for the Secretary General of UNESCO. From 2000 to 2007, Matos was Program Director of the International Development Program at Carnegie Corporation of New York (www.carnegie.org), overseeing the foundation’s work in sub-Sharan Africa with a focus on strengthening higher education in select African universities; enhancing women’s opportunities in higher education; and, revitalizing public and university libraries. Dr. Matos has a vast and deep understanding of the issues, problems and promises central to development in Africa today, particularly in education.
Cheikh Mbacké Senior Advisor (retired)
Hewlett Foundation
Dakar, Senegal
Cheikh Mbacké, PhD, recently retired as Senior Advisor, Population Program, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Dakar, Senegal. Prior to this, Dr. Mbacke was responsible for The Rockefeller Foundation's regional programs and key Foundation-wide administrative offices, specifically information technology, fellowships and special projects, library services, office services and program administration. Dr. Mbacké, a population scientist by training, began his career with the Foundation as a senior scientist for its Population Sciences division in 1992. He became the Foundation's representative for Africa in 1999 and director of Africa Programs and representative for eastern and southern Africa in 2000. In this position, he was responsible for developing and implementing the Foundation's new strategy for improving the lives and livelihoods of the poor and excluded people in Africa. In 2003 Dr. Mbacké was the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation's Outstanding Achievement Award for his excellent leadership and management of the Nairobi Office. Dr. Mbacké joined the Foundation after spending six years as a researcher and head of the training division of the Center for Applied Studies and Research on Population and Development at the Sahel Institute in Bamako, Mali. Prior to that, he was both researcher and statistician, working on projects such as the first Senegalese census and on a pilot survey in a nomadic area in Mauritania in preparation for the first Mauritanian census. Dr. Mbacké has a bachelor's degree in statistics from the Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques in Paris, France, a master's degree in demography from the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographique in Yaoundé, Cameroon, West Africa, and a doctoral degree in demography from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has several publications and is a member of several professional associations. Dr. Mbacké was raised in Nioro, a town in Senegal, West Africa, about 25 kilometers north of the Gambian border. He grew up learning English, French and his native tongue, Wolof.
Speciosa Wandira Executive Director
Concave International Ltd.
Uganda
Speciosa Wandira, MD, qualified as a medical doctor at Makerere University in Kampala and was subsequently appointed Uganda’s Vice-President (VP) and Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries in 1994 - the first woman in Africa to hold the VP post. As VP, her dynamic presence was evident: she was an endless source of new ideas for government in terms of strategic decision-making, among other things. In this same year, she was elected Member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted Uganda’s 1995 Constitution. Prior to her Vice-Presidency, Dr. Wandira was appointed Deputy Minister for Industry from 1989 to 1991, then Minister for Gender and Community Development. Currently, Dr. Wandira is pursuing a PhD from Harvard University while, in her spare time, she dedicates her life to "advancing women, reducing poverty and the high level of illiteracy, and promoting social justice." She also finds time to advocate for affirmative action for women and other marginalised groups, including the elderly and disabled. Indeed her active campaigning for gender, peace and development issues contributed to the creation of the AWCPD, a committee jointly established by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), to which Committee Dr. Wandira is the current Chairperson. The Committee aims at bringing women into the mainstream of efforts to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts, while ensuring their full and active participation in development initiatives at the highest decision-making level.
