Isabelle leads insight2impact’s work on using data to better measure financial inclusion and generate smarter policies for a digital Africa. She specializes in approaches to learning digital skills and the application of data science for public policy innovation. She was born in Nigeria and raised in Togo, and after four years in Zambia, now lives […]
Dr. Youssef Travaly (PhD, MBA) is the Next Einstein Forum Vice-President of Science Innovation & Institutional Partnerships. He is in charge of articulating the NEF’s scientific and technological ambitions including managing the policy aspects and Global Gathering program. He is also responsible for developing and sustaining relationships with multiple partner institutions and stakeholders, resource mobilization, […]
Prof. Neil Turok (Chair), Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and former Chair of Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University. Prof. Turok is the Founder of AIMS and currently Chair of the AIMS South Africa Council and Chair of the Board of AIMS-NEI. Born in South Africa, Neil Turok founded the African Institute for Mathematical […]
Since September 2019 assigned by Janssen Global Public Health R&D to coordinate the Janssen support to the UMURINZI program, an Ebola Vaccination Implementation Research Program to demonstrate the feasibility of a preventive vaccination approach using a heterologous two-dose vaccine regimen in Rwanda. Living and working in Rwanda. Studied Biology and worked for Johnson & Johnson […]
Monique Wasunna is the Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) Africa Regional Office based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has been supervising and leading DNDi’s activities in Eastern Africa since 2003. She is a founding member and former Chair of the Leishmaniasis East Africa Platform (LEAP). LEAP is a clinical research platform created by DNDi […]
Loyiso G. Nongxa was elected as one of the two Vice-Presidents of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) at the Annual General Meeting in São Paulo in 2018. The term is from 2019 to 2022 and he serves as the liaison person between IMU and UNESCO, as well as with the International Science Council. He retired […]
Aisha Walcott-Bryant is a research scientist and manager of the AI Science and Engineering team at IBM Research, Africa. She is passionate about healthcare, interactive systems, and on addressing Africa’s diverse challenges. In addition, Dr Walcott-Bryant leads a team of researchers and engineers who are working on transformational innovations in global health and development while […]
Nalini was born in Burma (Myanmar), where she spent her early childhood before her family emigrated to Australia. She completed a BSc at the University of Sydney, then a PhD in computational and applied mathematics at Princeton University, before returning to Australia. Her research focuses on nonlinear special functions, arising in mathematical models that are […]
Since September 2019 assigned by Janssen Global Public Health R&D to coordinate the Janssen support to the UMURINZI program, an Ebola Vaccination Implementation Research Program to demonstrate the feasibility of a preventive vaccination approach using a heterologous two-dose vaccine regimen in Rwanda. Living and working in Rwanda. Studied Biology and worked for Johnson & Johnson […]
Henri Nyakarundi is a native Rwandan who moved to the US in 1996 to study computer science. After graduation, he soon realized that a 9-5 was not his calling, and he was an entrepreneur at heart. Over the next 10 years he founded and developed trucking and construction businesses in both the US and Burundi. […]