The Scientific Advisory Committee will advise the Governing Board and the Executive Director on the direction and alignment of WASCAL’s research agenda. The international committee is composed of renowend scientist from the fields of climate change and land use. The members of the Scientific Advisory Committee are:
- Prof. Jimmy Omoniyi Adegoke, Director, Center for Applied Environmental Research (CAER)
Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA - Prof. Janos Bogardi, Global Water System Project International Project Office, Germany
- Prof. Anna Creti, Université Paris Dauphine, LeDA-CGEMP (Laboratoire d’économie de Dauphine
– Centre de Géopolitique de l’Energie et des matières premières), FRANCE - Dr. Arona Diedhiou, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), LTHE / Université de Grenoble-Alpes, FRANCE
- Dr. Daniela Jacob, Climate Services Center 2.0, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, GERMANY
- Dr. Ardjouma Thiombiano, Université de Ouagadougou, UFR-SVT, BURKINA FASO
- Prof. Adrian Tompkins, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, ITALY
- Prof. Adama Traoré, Directeur de Recherche et Consultant en Recherche & Developpement agricoles, MALI
- Dr. Hassan Virji, System for Analysis, Research and Training (START),USA
The Committee appointed Prof. Jimmy Omoniyi Adegoke as chairman and Dr. Arona Diedhiou as deputy chairman.
Prof. Jimmy Omoniyi Adegoke was appointed chairman of WASCAL’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
The office of deputy chairman will be taken over by Dr. Arona Diedhiou.