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Board of Directors

Jane Menken

Chair

Distinguished Professor and Director,
Institute of Behavioral Science ,
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute of Behavioral Science , University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Prof Menken is the Director of the Institute of Behavioral Science and a Professor of Sociology at the ...Read More

Alex Ezeh

Executive Director

African Population and Health Research Center,
Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr. Alex C. Ezeh is the Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). He joined APHRC in 1998 (then a program of the Population Council in Nairobi) as a Senior Research Fellow. In 2000, he was appointed APHRC’s Interim Director and ...Read More

Trudy Harpham

Board Member Prof.Trudy is Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, UK and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. After gaining a first class degree in geography and a PhD in urban geography/environmental psychology, Professor Harpham moved into public health to develop her specialty of urban health in developing countries. She wa ...Read More

Francis Dodoo

Board member
Francis Dodoo is Director of the Regional Institute for Population
Studies at the University of Ghana and holds a research professorship as
Professor of Sociology and Demography at The Pennsylvania State
University. His intellectual interests focus on sub-Saharan Africa,
where his research engagements lie specifically in gendered pow ...Read More

Cheikh Seydil Moctar Mbacké

Board member

Dr.Cheikh Seydil Moctar Mbacké is chairman of the Council on Health research for Development (COHRED).
Dr. Mbacké worked for the Rockefeller Foundation for fourteen years occupying successively the positions of Program Officer for Population Sciences (1992-1999), representative for Eastern Africa (1999-2000), director of the Africa Regional Progr ...Read More

Luis Crouch

Board member

Luis Crouch, who earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, is a Research Vice President and Senior Economist in RTI International’s (RTI’s) International Development Group (IDG). His areas of specialization include social sector finance, policy reform, and the political economy of social sector development, with a particular, current foc ...Read More

Musimbi Kanyoro

Musimbi Kanyoro

Director of the Population Programme
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Los Altos, California, USA .

Director of the Population Programme The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Los Altos, California, USA .
Dr. Kanyoro is the Director of the Population Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Californi ...Read More

Marian Jacobs

Deputy Chair

Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town
South Africa
She is currently Professor of Child Health at UCT and also holds the position of Head of the university’s Child Health Unit. In addition she is a pediatric specialist at Groote Schuur Hospital. Throughout her career, in the fields of research, teaching and practi ...Read More

Stig Wall

Board member

Professor of Epidemiology
University of Umea
Sweden

Professor of Epidemiology University of Umea Sweden
Since 1986, Stig Wall is a Professor of Epidemiology and Health Care Research at Umeĺ University, Sweden. He founded and led the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences there until 2007 after which h ...Read More

Florence Manguyu

Board member

Dr Florence Manguyu is a consultant pediatrician in clinical practice at Aga Khan University Hospital
in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a member and past president of the Medical Women's International Association. Dr Manguyu served on the International NGO Steering Committee for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development and chaired t ...Read More

Agyeman Akosa

Board member

Professor of Pathology, University of Ghana Medical School, and Executive Director of Healthy Ghana

Professor of Pathology, University of Ghana Medical School, and Executive Director of Healthy Ghana
Prof Akosa is the immediate past Director-General of the Ghana Health Services, Accra, Ghana. He is also the president of the Commonw ...Read More

Steven W. Sinding

Board member
Steven W. Sinding
P.O. Box 1158
Manchester, VT 05254 ...Read More

Osita Ogbu

Board member

Former Chief Economic Advisor to the Former President of Nigeria
15 Vaal Street (Off Rhine Street)
Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria

Osita Ogbu holds a Ph. D. in Economics. He was a consulting research economist at the World Bank’s Africa Region in Washington D.C. between 1987 and 1991. He joined the International Development Research ...Read More

Mark R. Montgomery

Board member

Professor of Economics
State University of New York, Stony Brook
and Senior Associate, Policy Research Division
Population Council
1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Prof Mark Montgomery is a senior associate in the Policy Research Division of the Population Council, New York. He is also a professor in th ...Read More

Jeffrey Tolin

Board Member
Hogan & Hartson LLP
875 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Direct: +1 212 918 3590
Tel: +1 212 918 3000
Fax: +1 212 918 3100

Mr. Tolin is a Partner at the Hogan & Hartson LLP, New York. Jeff Tolin practices in a variety of areas of tax law with a focus on international and business tax planning. Jeff is experienced in dom ...Read More