Sustainable development | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Delessa Neger

rebsl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:56:31 +0000

Dr. Delessa Bulcha Neger is a senior university leader, economist, and partnerships strategist with extensive experience across African higher education. He has served as President of Dambi Dollo University, Vice President at Wollega University and Oromia State University, and Senior Advisor at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Science & Higher Education. His work focuses on development economics, specifically public revenue, African higher education governance, internationalization, and diaspora engagement. Dr. Neger currently advises CAFOR–African Union on partnerships and resource mobilization and serves as Strategic Advisor at AYA Innovation (USA). He has supervised numerous graduate theses published on economic policy and growth and actively supports Africa–global academic collaboration. Additionally, he is serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Gondar and Bule Hora University. He is a member of the editorial board of some journals. Based in Toronto, he is committed to contributing to the Tubman Institute’s research and community-engaged initiatives.

Keywords: African higher education, University leadership, Development economics, Public revenue, Internationalization, Diaspora engagement, Partnerships & resource mobilization, African Union, CAFOR, Institutional governance, Community‑engaged research, South–South collaboration, Economic policy, Academic supervision (MA/PhD), Research and publications, International academic partnerships, Adjunct professor, Editorial board member, Africa–global collaboration, Knowledge mobility, Sustainable development

Khaoula Bengezi

rebsl — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:52:52 +0000

Khaoula Bengezi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and a graduate associate at the Centre for Feminist Research at �첥��Ƶ. Currently Khaoula is researching global responses to climate change in the Sahara Desert through renewable energy transitions vis-à-vis clean energy technologies. She is particularly interested in examining how environmental expertise are constructed, legitimized and articulated in sustainable development projects in North Africa through a multi-scalar case study approach. Her work centres the experiences of local small-scale farmers, particularly women and how the construction of climate mitigation technologies have affected their ability to survive in the desert. Khaoula’s approaches are informed by an array of intersecting interdisciplinary approaches including global environmental governance, critical science and technology scholarship and decolonial political ecology. Moreover, for the past three years she has been the program coordinator for Righting Relations Hamilton, a movement of adult educators and community organizers who work towards decolonization and social change on Turtle Island.

Keywords: global environmental and climate mitigation governance, sustainable development, orientalist imaginaries, traditional sustainable knowledges

Elvis Dze Achuo

rebsl — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:49:34 +0000

Elvis Dze Achuo is a Cameroonian and holder of a PhD in Mathematical Economics from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. He currently serves in the Ministry of Secondary Education, Cameroon. His research interests are in the domains of Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Resource Economics and Macroeconomics. He is a sustainable development enthusiast, passionate about environmental issues. His research output in these domains has featured in reputable international peer reviewed journals.

Key Words: Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Gender Inclusion, Sub-Saharan Africa

Tii Nchofoung

rebsl — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:18:43 +0000

Tii Nchofoung holds a Master’s of Science in Mathematical Economics from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. He also holds a Diploma in Administration from the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM), Cameroon. He works as an Administrator with the Ministry of Trade, Cameroon, at the same time, a doctoral candidate in Economics at the University of Dschang. He is also a visiting scholar with the Association of Promoting Women in Research and Development (ASPROWADA), Cameroon. His research works have been published in international peer-reviewed journals among others: Resources Policy, International Economic Journal, Foreign Trade Review, Telecommunications Policy, and International Economics, just to name a few. His research interests are in the fields of international economics, inclusive and sustainable development.