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The Board
Dr. Adam Abdul-Rahaman
H.E. Dr. Adam Abdul-Rahaman is a career diplomat and currently serving as Ghana’s Consul-General to Jeddah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Prior to being appointed to his current position, he served in various capacities in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as in Ghana Embassy in Brussels, Belgium from 2012 to 2016, Ghana Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 2018 to 2023, and was also the immediate past Officer-In-Charge, Director, at the Accra Passport Application Center (Accra PAC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dr. Adam has a wide range of expertise in diplomacy, intergovernmental negotiations, public policy formulation, advocacy, leadership, management and administration. He is currently a board member of the African Center for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA).
Dr. Adam holds a Doctorate degree in Political Economy, an M.A in International Relations, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Religions as well as a certificate in Human Resources Planning and Development.
Dr. Adam loves reading, watching movies and spending time with the family. He is married with four children.
Seyram Avle
Seyram Avle [/ˈsɛi.rɑːm /ˈɑːv.lɛ] is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is also an affiliate faculty in the Data Analytics and Computational Social Sciences program and a co-founder of the Global Technology for Social Justice Lab (GloTech).
Dr Avle’s research is on digital technology cultures and innovation across parts of Africa, China, and the United States. This work primarily takes a critical approach towards understanding how digital technologies are made and used, as well as their implications for issues of labor, identity, and futures.
She has been a visiting fellow at several institutions, including, most recently, the University of the West Indies, the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study, and the Harvard University Center for African Studies.
Heidi Østbø Haugen
Heidi Østbø Haugen holds a PhD in Human Geography and is Professor of China Studies at the University of Oslo. She pioneered studies of Chinese migration to Africa with fieldwork among Chinese entrepreneurs in Cape Verde in 2003, published in the article “On the edge of the Chinese diaspora.” Her subsequent research has focused on trade and migration between West Africa and China and how flows of people, goods, and money are interrelated. Her ongoing project funded by the European Research Council – Brokering China’s Extraversion – examines processes that establish and reinforce transnational linkages from South China to the world. Haugen has previously served on the executive board of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network (CA/AC) and has been a visiting scholar at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.
Former Members Of The Board
Jamie Monson, PhD
Jamie Monson is Director of the African Studies Center and Professor of History at Michigan State University. A recognized researcher and scholar, Monson’s efforts have established her as a pioneer in China-Africa development studies. Her book, Africa’s Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania, explores the TAZARA railway, which was built with Chinese development aid in the 1970s. Monson’s most recent project is a forthcoming book titled Looking East: Africa’s Historical Engagement with China. She is also creating a documentary film based on life histories of TAZARA railway workers in Tanzania, Zambia and China. Monson serves as Chairman of the Board of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network (CA/AC) and is currently heading a new global initiative, “Building Trans-regional Connections Among Africa, Asia and Latin America,” that seeks to establish new scholarly paradigms for international studies.
Li Anshan
Li Anshan, born on Dec. 24, 1953 in Hunan Province, China, received his Ph.D. (History,1994) under Professor Martin Klein’s supervision at the University of Toronto. He is Emeritus Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University who has published works on African history and historiography, African nationalism, Chinese overseas and world history both in Chinese and English. He was invited to give lectures on African history and China-African relations to Chinese top leader (former President Jiang Zemin) and General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. He was appointed as leader of FOCAC Following-up Action Assessment Group to Africa, commissioned by Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and attended FOCAC-Beijing 2000 Ministerial Conference and 2006 FOCAC Summit, as a distinguished guest. He has supervised MA and PhD students from various African countries. Invited by China People’s Liberation Army National Defence University, he has supervised and given lectures to graduate students from abroad including African countries.
