UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE (UIGI) COMMITTEE

MISSON

To foster collaboration among university, industry and government across the African Union to advance education of supply chain management, achieve innovation through joint and sponsored research, provide a pipeline for talent, and support industrial projects for life sciences and healthcare. By leveraging the collective infrastructure, resources, and expertise of academia, industry and government, we will combat critical challenges, such as new drug development, workforce development and training, talent shortages, and supply chain disruptions. This collaboration will provide the BioPharma industry greater reach for translation of research into products, discovery of innovative approaches and techniques, talent development, and more.

Mr. John Frimpong Manso, Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) (Ghana)

Dr. Adegoke Oke, Professor, Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business & Thunderbird School of Management, Arizona State University (USA)

Dr. Abdul, Samed Muntaka, Senior Lecturer and Former Head of the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, KNUST (Ghana)

Ms. Inès Buki, USAID Country Director, Chemonics (Rwanda)

Dr. Bebe Bekele, Dean, School of Medicine, and Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity (Rwanda)

Ms. Solange Nisingizwe, CEO, Africa World Cargo (Rwanda)

Dr. Randy Bradley, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management & Information Systems, University of Tennessee (USA)

Dr. David Poohe, Associate Professor of Operations and Business Management, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

Dr. David Asamoah, Head of the Department of Supply Chain Management & Information Systems, (KNUST) (Ghana)

Mr. Devendra Mishra, Executive Director, BSMA (USA)

Dr. Nico Vandaele, Professor, Operations Research & Operations Management, KU LEUVEN (Belgium)

Dr. Maurice Demanou, Consultant, Yellow Fever Regional Laboratory Coordinator, for Africa, WHO

Dr. Nadine Rujeni, Associate Professor of Parasitology, National University of Rwanda (Rwanda)