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The
members are:
Mamadou
Lamine Loum
Jacques
Gérin
Jane Guyer
Abdou
El Mazide Ndiaye
Dick de Zeeuw
 Mamadou
Lamine Loum
Mr. Loum is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University
of Dakar and of the École Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature
of Senegal. He joined the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Planning
in 1977 and held a number of senior positions in the Ministry thereafter,
including Chief Treasurer and Paymaster (1984-91), General Director
of Treasury (1991-93), and Deputy Minister in charge of the Budget (1993-98)
before being appointed Minister of the Economy (January-July 1998).
He was Prime Minister of Senegal between July 1998 and March 2000.
 Jacques
Gérin
Mr. Gérin is a civil engineer with a Master's degree in Regional
Planning. Formerly with the Government of Canada, he was Vice President
of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Deputy Minister
of Environment Canada and Associate Deputy Minister of the Department
of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. In 1999, he chaired the
Panel on Ecological Integrity of Canada's National Parks and has chaired
the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the North American Commission
for Environmental Cooperation. He is Chairman of the Board of the International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and a Governor of the International
Development Research Centre (IDRC).
 Jane
Guyer
Professor Guyer received her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester, New
York in 1972. From 1994 to 2002, she was Director of the Program of
African Studies at Northwestern University, she’s now Research
Associate. She’s Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University
, U.S.A. She has carried out field work in Nigeria and Cameroon intermittently
over a period of about thirty years. Her publications include Family
and Farm in Southern Cameroon (1984) and many other articles and books
on political economy, culture and environment in West and Equatorial
Africa. She is a member of the American Anthropological Association,
the African Studies Association and the Council for the Development
of Social and Economic Research in Africa.
 Abdou
El Mazide Ndiaye
Mr. Ndiaye is a graduate of Institut d'Étude du Développement
Économique et Social at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). From
1985, he was Director General of the African Network for Integrated
Development, based in Dakar, and since 1992 has been the Executive President
of the Forum of African Voluntary Development Organisations (FOVAD),
with members in 36 African countries. In 1987-94, he was active in the
African NGOs Environment Network, based in Nairobi. And, in 1999, he
was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to serve
as one of 28 members of the Millennium Commission for Africa.
 Dick
de Zeeuw
Dr. de Zeeuw is a specialist in international agriculture. He was a
member of the Dutch Senate (1970-75), General Director of Agricultural
Research in the Netherlands (1976-1985), President of the Agricultural
University at Wageningen (1985-89), Professor on Environmental Policy
and World Food Problems at the Catholic University, Nijmegen (1971-89),
and Member and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International
Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI (1980-90). Currently, he is Deputy
Chairman of the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Impact Assessment
(Commission MER), Chairman of the Working Groups on Social Justice and
the Future of Agriculture in the Netherlands, and Convenor of the independent
International Advisory Group on the Nam Theun hydroelectric project
in Laos.
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