RAIMI FASSASSI Researcher and instructor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée in Abidjan, Ivory CoastSVEN GRIMM Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South AfricaNATASHA GRIST Head of Research for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network and Research Fellow in the Rural Policy and Governance group at the Overseas Development Institute, London, UKFRANCIS NGUENDI IKOME Head of the African Conflict Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South AfricaGECI KARURI-SEBINA Research Associate at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South AfricaGARTH LE PERE Senior Partner of the consulting firm DAJO Associates and Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of Pretoria, South AfricaRASIGAN MAHARAJH Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology, South AfricaSTEFAN MEYER independent author and consultantALIOUNE SALL Executive Director of the African Futures InstituteCHINWE IFIJEKA SPERANZA Researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn and at the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of Bern, GermanyMARTHE ROCH worked as a researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn, GermanyPATRICE VIMARD Researcher at the Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement in Marseilleand Research Director at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, FranceHE WENPING Professor and Director of the Division of African Studies at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
