Five researchers from Africa are among the 26 eminent scientists appointed last week to provide science, technology and innovation advice on sustainable development to United Nations executives.
UN secretary-general Ban-Ki Moon announced the new advisory board on 18 October. Its formation was a suggestion in a 2012 report from a UN high-level panel on sustainability.
The members are drawn from all walks of science. Three of the five Africans on it live and work on the continent: Tanya Abrahamse, chief executive officer of the South African National Biodiversity Institute; Wole Soboyejo, president of African University of Science and Technology in Nigeria; and Judi Wakhungu, professor of energy resources management and first cabinet secretary in Kenya’s Ministry for Environment, Water and Natural Resources.
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