Formation | 1985 |
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Professional title | Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (FAAS) |
Headquarters | Nairobi, Kenya |
Coordinates | 1°18′44″S36°42′35″E / 1.312136°S 36.709781°E |
Region served | Africa |
Membership | 547 |
President | Felix Dapare Dakora |
Website | www |
The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is a non-aligned, non-political, not-for-profit, pan-African learned society formed in 1985. [1]
The AAS elects fellows (FAAS) and affiliates. The AAS also awards the Obasanjo Prize for Scientific Discovery and Technological Innovation [2] every two years to an outstanding scientist who contributed to the development of the continent.
The Academy was founded in 1983 following a proposal presented by entomologist Thomas Odhiambo and Mohamed H.A. Hassan (The World Academy of Sciences president at the time) at the inaugural meeting of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), in Trieste, Italy.[ citation needed ]
Odhiambo led a taskforce on the creation of The Academy, which presented its recommendations at a meeting convened on 10 December 1985. Participants at the meeting unanimously adopted the recommendations, turned the gathering into a General Assembly, and drafted and adopted the Academy's founding constitution, which has since been updated. The 34 participants who attended the General Assembly also became the founding fellows of the Academy. [3]
The Academy also developed and implemented four strategies between 1989 and 2005 that focused on forestry research, biotechnology, soil and water management, improved food production and policy and advocacy. In 1988 the AAS launched the journal Discovery and Innovation, which focused on all areas of science and ran until 2012.[ citation needed ]
At first the Academy was largely unfunded and run by volunteers. Between 1993 and 1996 Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Foundation helped the organization establish efficient institutional and financial systems. [4] In May 2005 the Kenyan government gave official recognition to the Academy and extended to it diplomatic privileges given to international non governmental organisations headquartered in Kenya. It also authorized construction of its headquarters on a 2 hectares (4.9 acres) site that it owns in the Karen area of Nairobi. A US$5 million endowment from the Nigerian government was used to cover the cost of construction. [5]
On 28 February 2011 Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye of Senegal was appointed President of the AAS for a three-year term replacing Mohamed Hassan of Sudan. Ndiaye said he wanted to rejuvenate the AAS, and felt that conditions were favorable. He aimed to open up centers of excellence on the continent where French and English speakers could work on joint research programs. [6]
Felix Dapare Dakora is currently serves as President of the African Academy of Sciences for the 2017–2023 terms. [7] [8]
The AAS is governed by:
As of 2022, the governing council of the academy has the following members: [9]
The African Academy of Sciences fellows (FAAS) are Africans who may live in or outside the continent and working on science in Africa are elected by previously elected AAS fellows based on achievements that include their publication record, innovations, leadership roles and contribution to policy. Fellows form a community of scientists formed to engage with governments and policy makers to enable wise investment in the future of the continent.
As of November 2022, the AAS has 547 fellows. From which 34 who are founding fellows who were all elected during AAS inception, [3] 17 honorary fellows, [12] 51 associate fellows (i.e., non founding and honorary fellows from outside the continent), [13] and 445 Fellows with 19.3% female fellows. [14]
34 fellows, all elected at AAS inception in 1985, organised, by countries, alphabetically below: [3]
Henri Hogbe Nlend, Cameroon | Jean Nya-Ngatchou, Cameroon | Victor Doulou, DRC | Félix Malu wa Kalenga, DRC |
Jerome Dinga-Reassi, DRC | Mohamed Kamel Mahmoud, Egypt | Attia Ashour, Egypt | Ebenezer Laing, Ghana |
Francis Allotey, Ghana | Daniel Adzei Bekoe, Ghana | Robert Butler, Ghana | Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, Ghana |
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, Ghana | Edward S. Ayensu, Ghana | Fred Wangati, Kenya | Thomas R. Odhiambo, Kenya |
Samson Gombe, Kenya | Raoelina Andriambololona, Madagascar | Thomas Adeoye Lambo, Madagascar | Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga, Madagascar |
Mahdi Elmandjra, Morocco | Anthony Youdeowei, Nigeria | Donald Efiong Udo Ekong, Nigeria | Jibril Aminu, Nigeria |
Moctar Toure, Senegal | Toure M. Saydil, Senegal | Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Sudan | Yahia Abdel Mageed, Sudan |
Ahmed K. Bashir, Sudan | Awadh S. Mawenya, Tanzania | L. K. Shayo, Tanzania | Djodji Akoly Nyatepe-Coo, Togo |
Itai Chiri, Zimbabwe | Christopher Magadza, Zimbabwe |
As of November 2020, there are 17 honorary fellows which started in 2011, below arranged by year. [12]
Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria (2011) | Denis Sassou Nguesso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2014) | Khama Ian Khama, Botswana (2016) | Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, South Africa (2018) |
Ashraf Mansour, Egypt (2018) | Mamphela Aletta Ramphele, South Africa (2018) | Khotso David Kenneth Mokhele, South Africa (2018) | Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwe (2018) |
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Niger (2018) | Carlos Lopes, Guinea-Bissau (2018) | Meodas Carlos, Mozambique (2018) | Eddah Gachukia, Kenya (2018) |
Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, (2018) | Richard Erskine Leakey, Kenya (2019) | Mary Chinery-Hesse, Ghana (2019) | Thulisile Madonsela, South Africa (2019) |
Graça Machel, Mozambique (2019) |
As of November 2020, there are 51 Associate Fellows, which are non-founding or honorary fellows from outside the continent). [13]
Giovanni Battista Marini Bettolo Marconi, Italy (1987) | Abdus Salam, Pakistan (1987) | William A.C Mathieson, United Kingdom (1989) | Walter E. Massey, United States (1991) |
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, India (2001) | Govindapillai Achuthan Nair, India (2006) | Mortelmans Jos, United Kingdom (2006) | Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan, India (2006) |
Donald Adams, United States (2009) | Erik Thulstrup, Denmark (2009) | Cato Thomas Laurencin, United States (2009) | Christian Borgemeister, Germany (2011) |
Zeyaur Rahman Khan, India (2012) | Gerhard Bringmann, Germany (2013) | Peter K. Neuenschwander, Switzerland (2013) | Joachim von Braun, Germany (2014) |
Zhang Linqi, China (2015) | Kevin Marsh, United Kingdom (2015) | Eleanor N. Fish, Canada (2015) | Dorairajan Balasubramanian, India (2015) |
Don A. Cowan, New Zealand (2016) | Bill S. Hansson, Sweden (2016) | Brenda Wingfield, Ireland (2016) | Federico Rosei, Italy (2017) |
George Fu Gao, China (2017) | Alison Elliott, United Kingdom (2017) | Bert Klumperman, Netherlands (2017) | Marcel Tanner, Switzerland (2018) |
Kadambot Siddique, Australia (2018) | Snow Robert, United Kingdom (2018) | Marleen Temmerman, Belgium (2018) | Dumitru Baleanu, Romania (2019) |
Jinde Cao, China (2019) | Lars Hviid, Denmark (2019) | Mark Edward John Woolhouse, United Kingdom (2019) | Catherine Molyneux, United Kingdom (2019) |
Christian Pirk, Germany (2019) | Deji Akinwande, United States (2020) | Wu Kongming, China (2020) | Fusuo Zhang, China (2020) |
Mohamed Henini, United Kingdom (2020) | Henry Fadamiro, United States (2020) | Newton Lupwayi, Canada (2020) | Le Kang, Pakistan (2020) |
Jianbo Shen, China (2020) | Ann M Moormann, United States (2020) | Rodomiro Ortiz, Sweden (2020) | Tasawar Hayat, Pakistan (2020) |
Kimani Toussaint, United States (2020) | Rajeev Kumar Varshney, India (2020) | Fengting Li, China (2020) |
Professor Thomas Risley Odhiambo was a Kenyan entomologist and environmental activist who directed research and scientific development in Africa.
Mohamed Hag Ali Hag el HassanOMRI GCONMC FAAS FIAS FTWAS is a Sudanese-Italian mathematician and physicist who co-founded numerous scientific councils. He is currently the President of The World Academy of Sciences.
Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye is a former professor of Veterinary Sciences from Senegal who has held many senior administrative positions in African educational institutions and organizations.
Felix Dapare Dakora, is a Ghanaian plant biologist investigating biological nitrogen fixation at the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. He currently serves as President of The African Academy of Sciences for the 2017–2023 terms. Dakora was awarded the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences and the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award. Dakora is a Fellow of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
Tolullah "Tolu" Oni is a Nigerian urban epidemiologist at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. She is a NextEinstein Forum Fellow and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Alinah Kelo Segobye is a social development activist and archaeologist, with specialisms in social development and HIV/AIDS and the future of studying the past in Africa and African archaeology. She is Dean of Human Sciences at the Namibia University of Science and Technology and an elected fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
Kevin Marsh is a British Malariologist, academic and a researcher. He is a Professor of Tropical Medicine and Director of Africa Oxford Initiative at University of Oxford. He is also a senior advisor at African Academy of Sciences.
Dominic Were Makawiti was a Kenyan biochemist. He served as Vice Chancellor of Maseno University and was an elected fellow and former treasurer of the African Academy of Sciences.
Eid Hassan Doha is an Egyptian Emeritus Professor of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory at the Cairo University. He is an elected fellow of African Academy of Sciences, the head of the department of Mathematics at Cairo University and the Head of Promotion Committee of Research Assessment for Associate Professorships – Supreme Council of Egyptians Universities.
Ali S. Hadi is an Egyptian American emeritus professor at Cornell University, USA. He was a former vice provost and director of graduate studies and research at American University, Cairo. He is the chairman and the founder of the Actuarial Science Program at the American University in Cairo. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, the American Statistical Association and African Academy of Sciences.
Shoukry Hassan Sayed is an Egyptian professor of Applied Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, College of Science University of Bahrain. He was the former Head of Mathematics Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (London) and an elected member of African Academy of Sciences.
Abdin Mohamed Ali SalihFAAS FTWAS FIWRA is a Sudanese Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Khartoum and a UNESCO expert in Water Resources.
SamsonGombeFAAS FTWAS was a Kenyan professor of Biological Systems and Organisms. He was a Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences and a Founding Fellow and Secretary of African Academy of Sciences.
Anthony Youdeowei is a Nigerian professor of Agricultural Entomology. He was acting vice chancellor, dean and executive chairman at the University of Ibadan Publishing House. He is a founding fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences.
RaoelinaAndriambololona is a Madagascar professor of physics. He was a founding Vice President of African Academy of Sciences, a member of The World Academy of Sciences and he was the founding Director General of National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (INSTN), Madagascar.
Mokhele Khotso David Kenneth is a businessman and the special advisor to the South African minister of science and technology. He is the chancellor of the University of the Free State, the founder and president of the South African National Research Foundation and Academy of Science of South Africa. He is the lead independent of non-executive director of MTN Group.
Mohamed Thameur Chaibi is a Tunisian professor of Rural Engineering at the National Research Institute for Agricultural Engineering.
Mohamed T. El-Ashry was the first Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and subsequently a Senior Fellow with the UN Foundation.
Driss Ben-SariFAAS FTWAS is a Moroccan professor of Geophysics at the Department of Civil Engineering, Mohammed V University in Rabat.
The Sudanese National Academy of Sciences (SNAS) is a non-governmental organisation based in Khartoum, Sudan, that aims to promote the growth of the science and research sector in Sudan through collaboration in areas of education, science, technology, and research.