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Dr. Hemen Mark Butu is a Senior Climate Change Fellow at APRI and the Lead Researcher for the project “Climate Adaptation Strategies and Initiatives: Issues and Pathways in Senegal”. He has experience in leading, planning and delivering projects along the intersection of climate change, development, poverty, resilience, sustainable energy and more. Before joining APRI, he worked with the Climate Technology Centre and Network, UNDP, the Korea Energy Agency and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Korea, Togo and Vietnam. He has also won awards from the African Minister Conference on Water, Global Green Growth Institute, International Renewable Energy Agency, Kyungpook National University and Seoul National University. He holds a PhD in climate change adaptation from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
Dr. Chukwueloka Udechukwu Okeke is a Senior Lecturer at Anchor University in Lagos State, Nigeria. His research interests span across climate change adaptation, environmental sustainability, nature-based solutions, geological hazards, disaster risk reduction and anthropo-geomorphology. He has previously worked as a lecturer at Covenant University in Ota, Nigeria, where he taught core subjects in Geo-technics and Geo-environmental Engineering. Chukwueloka is a member of the Commonwealth Futures Climate Research Cohort and a corporate member of several internationally recognised professional organisations. He holds a BSc degree in Geology from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was a recipient of the MEXT Scholarship, which culminated in the award of MEng and PhD degrees in Engineering Geology from Shimane University, Japan. He currently serves as an editorial board member of Geoenvironmental Disasters – a Springer Open journal.
Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke is the Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Development at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Reading and Oxford, UK. He is a globally recognized scholar on global climate governance and international development with expertise in climate justice, national green growth transition in Africa, climate adaptation and business climate strategies. Over the last 20 years, Professor Okereke has maintained an extensive high-impact engagement with national governments, businesses and NGOs in Africa and led several high-profile international projects on climate change policy, mainstreaming and green economy transition in Africa, including the UNDP funded Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) commissioned by the Committee of African Heads of State on Climate Change (CAHOSCC), the Analysis of the Adaptation Components in Africa’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDCs) commissioned by the African Development Bank and the Rwandan Green Growth and Climate Resilience Project, which was the first-ever national low-carbon plan in Africa.