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_uacct = "UA-2085720-1"; urchinTracker(); Since our work focuses on helping Africans set our own priorities and craft our own solutions, we believe the composition of our board and staff should reflect this aim. Accordingly, TrustAfrica is governed and led entirely by Africans with extensive experience in philanthropy and development as well as an unwavering commitment to good governance. Board of Trustees
Fouad Abdelmoumni (Morocco), executive director, Al Amana
Akwasi Aidoo (Ghana), executive director, TrustAfrica
Tade Aina ,(Nigeria), Program Director, Higher Education and Libraries in Africa, International Program, Carnegie Corporation
Aïcha Bah Diallo (Guinea), advisor to Director-General, UNESCO
Dr. Natalia Kanem (Panama), International Public Health Advocate
Janet Naumi Mawiyoo (Kenya), chief executive officer, Kenya Community Development Foundation
Sibongile Mkhabela (South Africa), chief executive officer, Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund
Malusi Mpumlwana (South Africa), Bishop, Northern Diocese, Ethiopian Episcopal Church
Adhiambo Odaga (Kenya), Managing Director, Dangote Foundation
Gerry Salole (Ethiopia/Somalia), chief executive officer, European Foundation Centre
Bahru Zewde (Ethiopia), former executive director, Forum for Social Studies
Fouad Abdelmoumni
Mr. Abdelmoumni is a civil society activist and a microfinance expert. He led Al Amana, a Morocco-based micro-credit association, since its inception in 1996 till 2010, and left it with a portfolio of 400,000 loans worth US$300 million. His past leadership positions have included membership of the Executive Committee of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, the Advisors Group for the UN Year of Micro-credit 2005, Vice-Presidency of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights, and Vice-Secretary of the Espace Associatif for the Promotion of Civil Society. He holds a degree in Economics of Development from the University Mohammed V in Rabat and an MBA equivalent from ISCAE (Institut Supérieur de Commerce et d’Administration des Entreprises) in Casablanca. He is a former victim of political repression, having been detained from 1977 to 1980 and disappeared from 1983 to 1984.  Akwasi Aidoo
Dr. Aidoo has extensive experience in philanthropy in Africa. His previous positions include regional program officer for West and Central Africa at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), head of the Ford Foundation’s offices in Senegal and Nigeria from 1993 to 2001, and director of the Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative for Africa from 2001 to 2005. Dr. Aidoo sits on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Resource Alliance, Fund for Global Human Rights, Global Greengrants Fund, Open Society Institute for West Africa, and International Beliefs and Values Institute. He was educated in Ghana and the United States, completing his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Connecticut in 1985, and has taught at universities in Ghana, Tanzania, and the United States. He writes poetry and short stories in his free time.
 Tade Aina
As Program Director, Higher Education in Africa, Omotade “Tade” Akin Aina develops and implements the Corporation’s strategy to accelerate economic and social development in Africa by strengthening teaching, research, scholarship and leadership. Tade is an experienced foundation executive, whose decade-long tenure in the Ford Foundation’s Nairobi office, most recently as Regional Representative for East Africa, has been marked by innovation and visionary leadership. Tade joined Ford Foundation in 1998, coming from the Dakar-based Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), where he was the Deputy Executive Secretary. Tade Aina studied sociology at the University of Lagos and the London School of Economics and obtained his doctorate from the University of Sussex. Prior to CODESRIA, Aina was a full Professor of Sociology at the University of Lagos, lecturing on urban poverty, research methodology and development. He also currently serves on the boards of other organizations among which are the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Winrock International.
 Aïcha Bah Diallo
A renowned champion of girls’ and women’s learning, Ms. Bah Diallo hails from Guinea, where she served as Minister of Education from 1989 to 1996, implementing major reforms that strengthened access to primary education and doubled girls’ enrolment. She went on to become a senior education leader at UNESCO, where, from 1996 to 2005, she worked to reduce barriers to education for girls in the world’s least developed countries. Ms. Bah Diallo helped found both the Forum on Women Educationalists (FAWE) in 1992 and the Association for Strengthening Higher Education for Women in Africa (ASHEWA) in 2005. She is currently an advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO on girls’ education in Africa and a member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s Prize Committee. Fluent in six languages (French, English, Spanish, Fulani, Mandingo and Soussou), she holds a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Penn State University and a postgraduate diploma in biochemistry from the University of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Guinea. For her contributions to the field of education, Ms. Bah Diallo has received the Commandeur des Palmes Académiques françaises as well as the Officier de I’Ordre national de Côte d’Ivoire.
 Dr. Natalia Kanem
Dr. Natalia Kanem is an international advocate for women’s and children's health and education, with long experience in philanthropy. Her work re-examines the relationship of culture and tradition to the transformation of public health conditions for under-served people around the globe. She is a senior associate of the Lloyd Best Institute (West Indies). Dr Kanem was founding President of ELMA Philanthropies, a major services organization promoting health and education for African children. Earlier she co-founded the Harlem Center for Health Promotion while involved with the first successful trials for pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment. As Deputy Vice President of the Ford Foundation, she funded global programs to bolster peace and social justice, and led the Council on Foundation's accountability task force. She is a director of King Baudouin Foundation US and Nike RED Project Africa. A history and science graduate of Harvard, she has a Columbia University medical degree and a University of Washington Masters in Public Health.
 Janet Naumi Mawiyoo
Janet Naumi Mawiyoo is chief executive officer of the Kenya Community Development Foundation, the only public national foundation in Kenya, which works to promote sustainable development through social investments and grant making that empowers disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. She previously worked at the Kenyan Ministry of Culture and Social Services, the Ministry of Technical Training and Applied Technology, the Norwegian Agency for Development and ActionAid International, both in Kenya and in Tanzania, where she rose to the position of country director. Ms. Mawiyoo holds a Bachelor’s degree in social work from Nairobi University, a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Manchester (UK), where she specialized in development administration and management, and a postgraduate diploma in organizational development.
 Sibongile Mkhabela
Sibongile Mkhabela is chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, which works to improve the lives of poor children and youth and which has grown under her leadership to R500m/$50m. She is now on a two-year secondment to head the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital, one of the Fund’s signature initiatives. With a degree in social work and several graduate diplomas, Bongi (as she is known to friends) has held senior positions at the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Education Programme and South African Council of Churches. She also served as Programs Director in the office then-Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, overseeing strategic projects including NGO/government partnerships and children’s programs. In 2004 she was awarded a Joel L. Fleishman Civil Society Fellowship by Duke University (USA). As a student leader, Bongi was an executive member of the Soweto Students Representative Council and general secretary of the South African Students Movement, two driving forces behind the nationwide revolt on June 16, 1976, often hailed as the beginning of the end of apartheid. Charged with sedition in the Soweto 11 trial, she was imprisoned for three years. Following her release in 1982, she wrote a stirring account of the uprising, Open Earth and Black Roses.
 Malusi Mpumlwana
Bishop Mpumlwana heads the Northern Diocese of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church, giving strategic direction to the mission of the diocese and overseeing the pastoral ministrations of its priests and lay leaders. His vision is “to contribute to the making of an all-inclusive African church experience whose spirituality empowers the weak—the poor, women, and the young—and engages the social and economic realities of our time for the common good.” This is in line with his other pursuits, which include chairing the board of South Africa’s National Development Agency, a grantmaking agency that also informs government developmental policies. Bishop Mpumlwana is deputy chair of the President’s Advisory Council on National Orders and sits on the board of the Historic Schools Project, among other nonprofit organizations and corporations. He is currently Senior Associate for Setsing sa Modisa, focusing on platforms for youth development, social giving, and instruments for social security for the poor. He trained at the Federal Theological Seminary and the University of Cape Town, developing his theological work out of the practice of what he calls Kairos Theology, with South Africa’s 1985 Kairos Document as example. It is a theology that reflects on momentous challenges and distills those elements that cry out for intervention, failing which history would judge adversely. In this regard he has worked with other theologians in South Africa, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Until August 2006, he served as the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Africa Regional Director, providing leadership for its programming in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
 Adhiambo Odaga, Treasurer
Dr. Odaga is the Managing Director for the Dangote Foundation. Previously, she was the Ford Foundation’s representative for West Africa for 11 years, having served as a program officer for environment and microfinance in West Africa. Before joining the foundation, she worked on a project to strengthen the role of the World Bank in promoting female education in Africa and as the International Potato Center’s Social Scientist for West Africa based in Cameroon. She holds a Ph.D. from St. Anthony’s College at Oxford University, which she attended as Kenya’s first Rhodes Scholar.
 Gerry Salole, Chairperson
Dr. Salole is chief executive of the European Foundation Centre. He holds an M.A. in economics from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Manchester. His previous posts have included serving as representative of the Ford Foundation’s Southern Africa office, based in Johannesburg, and director of the Department of Programme Documentation and Communication of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, based in The Hague. Previously, Dr. Salole worked for Save the Children Federation (USA) in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe as well as for Redd Barna (Norwegian Save the Children Federation), OXFAM, and UNHCR in his native Ethiopia. He has written extensively on both development work and issues of identity.
 Bahru Zewde
Professor Zewde is an eminent historian who now serves as emeritus professor of history at Addis Ababa University. He is a founding member of the Forum for Social Studies, whose board he chaired from 1998 to 2004, and is active in the leadership of several pan-African and subregional associations and research networks. Professor Zewde also authored the seminal text A History of Modern Ethiopia 1885–1991 and Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
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