The Victoria Institute of Science and Technology (VIST) was born global and has assembled a formidable corps of world-class experts that are providing advice and intellectual guidance.
It is building on a strong base of local leaders and drawing heavily on experts in the Diaspora. |
Prof Calestous Juma |
It is managed by a local board of trustees that is headed by Dr. Martin Oduor-Otieno (CEO, Kenya Commercial Bank). Other local members of the board include Chris Aleke-Dondo (K-Rep Development Agency), Dennis Awori (Toyota East Africa), Munira Gilani (Peche Foods), John Mugabe, University of Pretoria, South Africa and Gr ace Ongile (New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Develoment). Its international members include John Mugabe (University of Pretoria) and Calestous Juma (Harvard University).
In addition to the board of trustees, VIST has marshalled a remarkable show of intellectual force on its international advisory council headed by Professor Calestous Juma (Harvard Kennedy School). The council reads likes a "virtual university" in its own right.
The council includes renowned leaders such as Jose Zaglul (EARTH University, Costa Rica) who founded the world’s first sustainable university in Costa Rica, Abdallah S. Daar (University of Toronto) a world leader in research on medical diagnostics and Jonathan Gressel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) who pioneered research on Striga control.
Others are Xue Lan, (Tsinghua University, Beijing) with long experience in the design of China’s innovation policy and Magdalene Odundo (University for the Creative Arts, England), a celebrated British ceramist of Kenyan extraction. Also on the list is Lee Yee-Cheong (Academy of Sciences of Malaysia) who is on Kenya’s National Economic and Social Council.
It has also assembled an equally formidable force of adjunct professors who include Thomas Burke (Harvard University), Norman Clark (Open University, UK), Henry Etzkowitz (Stanford University), J. Mark Munoz (Millikin University, USA) and Judi Wakhungu (African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi).
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