Nkem Khumbah
Nkem Khumbah is Chairman of the Africa Development Futures Group, faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program (STPP), and member of the STEM-Africa Initiative at the University of Michigan; and Senior Fellow with the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (theGFCC.org). He previously was Assistant Professor of Mathematics at North Georgia College and State University, research Fellow at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA and the Mathematical Science Research Institute at UC Berkeley.
He has worked extensively with the breath of African Science, Technology and Higher Education bodies, including serving in 2015 as Founding Executive Curator of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF): Africa’s Global Forum for Science, Policy and Society.
His articles have appeared in journals like the New York Times and the African Policy Review; he is frequent speaker at conferences and symposia in North America, Africa, Asia, and South America.