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Drs. Constantine Obura Bartel
Mr. Bartel has undertaken research and training activities in trade and development including natural resources,
environmental accounting, environmental indicators, technology, investment and SME development.
He managed projects on environmental
accounting and eco-efficiency indicators and reporting for the World Bank. He has also worked on trade
negotiations in agriculture and trade and development. Earlier he worked for the economics unit
of the United Nations Environment Programme on economic instruments for environmental management
and environmental impact assessment. Mr Bartel was consultant for the Government of Finland, Canada,
Costa Rica and implemented projects for USAID, IFC and IUCN.
He recently wrote the UNCTAD's Technology and Innovation Report 2010. |
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Dr. Victor Konde
Victor Konde is currently with the ICT and Science and Technology Division, UNECA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He was a consultant with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on technology
development and Transfer and its related issues in trade, investment and development. He is a former
research fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University,
has worked in industry for three years and a lecturer at the University of Zambia for 9 years.
He is the founder of the Zambian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His areas of
interest include technology transfer and commercialisation in developing countries and biotechnology
applications in agriculture, health and development. |
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Dr. Philipp Aerni
Philipp Aerni is a senior researcher at the Center for Comparative and International Studies and
the Institute of Agricultural Economics at ETH in Zurich. From January 2000 to April 2002, he
was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Science, Technology and Innovation Program at the
Center for International Development at Harvard University. He graduated in Geography and
Economics at the University of Zurich and received his PhD from the Institute of Agricultural
Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His research interests
include public risk perception, stakeholder attitudes toward agricultural biotechnology,
international science and technology policy, development policy and the political economy of
protest. |
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Ms. Sonia Bannerman
Sonia Bannerman is a systems engineer in information technology for the State of Geneva. She
is a graduate of the University of Neuchatel, where she studied social anthropology and
sociolinguistics. |
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Mr. Dominik Rüegger
Dominik Rüegger is a postgraduate student in computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) Zürich.
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Dr. El Hadji Diouf
El Hadji DIOUF is a trade expert with vast experience on regionalism. He is manager of ICTSDs
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) and Regionalism Programme. Prior to joining ICTSD, he
worked for several NGOs in Geneva on human rights issues, participating intensively for three
years at the UN Sub-commission on human rights. Later, he joined the law firm Suter et Associés
in Geneva working on WTO issues, before spending a short period at the WTO’s Legal Division.
Dr. Diouf has been working for ICTSD since July 2002. His current areas of work and research
include among others: development issues in international trade, agriculture, cotton, legal
issues in international trade (WTO, EPA and Regional integration), article XXIV of GATT, GSP
and bilateral agreements within Africa. Dr. Diouf is a citizen of Senegal. |
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Ms. Rosemary Wolson
Rosemary Wolson is Intellectual Property Manager at the University of Cape Town. She has a
BSc (Hons) degree in Microbiology and an LLB from the University of Cape Town. She played
a role in establishing UCT Innovation, the division responsible for UCT's technology transfer
and research contract management functions. She also has an interest in science and technology
policy matters, particularly the effect of intellectual property on innovation in developing
countries. She is a member of the International Advisory Committee of Public Interest
Intellectual Property Advisors (PIIPA), and sits on the Executive of the Southern African
Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA), a regional network of
stakeholders. She is actively engaged in building networks in research and innovation
management with other African research institutions. |
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Anna Atherton-Griggs
Anna Atherton-Griggs is a project officer for the UNEP/UNCTAD Capacity-Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF) in Geneva. She is currently on a project aimed at promoting production and trading opportunities for organic agricultural products in East Africa. She has previously worked on natural resource management in developing countries, the protection and promotion of traditional knowledge and biodiversity preservation.
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