AHED – UPESED’s Advisory Council is made up of distinguished men and women who have a great deal of experience with the developing world. Their function is to advise the organization about its operations.

Cecil Abrahams
University Professor, Cultural Foundations, School of Education and the English Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Former Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.

Jean-Pierre Asselin de Beauville
Vice-Rector, Programmes, l’Agence universitaire de la francophonie, Montréal, Québec.

Ogunlade Davidson
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of Post-Graduate Studies, the University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

G. O. S. Ekhaguere
President of the International Centre for Mathematical & Computer Sciences, Lagos, Nigeria; Professor of Mathematics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Mostafa El-Abbadi
Professor Emeritus of Greco-Roman Studies at the University of Alexandria, the President of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria. Member of the Supreme Council of Culture, Cairo and Member of the Supreme Council of Archaeology, Cairo.

Jean-Pierre Ezin
Director of the Regional Institute of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin. Former Rector, the National University of Bénin, now the University of Abomey-Calavi.

Francine Fournier
President of the multipartite committee of the National Reconciliation Program for Duplessis Orphans. Former Assistant Director-General, the Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO.

Louise Fréchette
Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation of Waterloo, Ontario. Former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Charles Freedman
Scholar in Residence, the Department of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada.

Magbaily Fyle
Professor of African History, the Ohio State University, Department of African American and African Studies. Former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Paule Leduc
Past Rector of the Université du Québec à Montréal, former president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, former director of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Ernest-Marie Mbonda
Maître de conférences and Vice-Doyen, the Philosophy Faculty, Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroun.

Sue Montgomery
Justice Reporter, the Gazette, Montreal, Former professor of journalism, National University of Rwanda, Butare.

David Morley
Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children – Canada, Former Executive Director, Canadian section of Médècins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders.

Bienvenido F. Nebres
Rector of the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines. Member, the Boards of Trustees of Georgetown University, Regis University, and the Asian Institute of Management.

Vic Neufeld
National Coordinator, the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. Former Director, Centre for International Health and Professor Emeritus Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Consultant with the INCLEN Trust, Manila.

James Orbinski
Associate Professor of Medicine and Political Science, University of Toronto, Former International President, Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, Chair of the Board, War Child Canada and Dignitas International.

Marco J. Pereda-Saavedra
Academic Director, Simón I. Patiño University, Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Jan Persens
Director, International Relations, the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, and Past President, African Mathematical Union.

J. Robert S. Prichard
President Emeritus of the University of Toronto and past director of the International Association of Universities, the Association of American Universities, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and the World Bank Institute.

Marc Renaud
Professor of Sociology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec. Former President, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Eva Rathgeber
Adjunct Professor and former Joint Chair, Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa and Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. Past President, the Canadian Association for International Development. Former Director for West Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, for the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario.

Joyashree Roy
Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Jadavpur University.

Mahamadé Savadogo
Professor and former Head, the Department of Philosophy, and former Associate Dean of Research, University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkino Faso.

Timothy Shaw
Professor, School of Peace and Conflict Management, Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C. Director of the Institute of International Relations, the University of the West Indies, Trinidad.

Chris Smart
Former Director, the Special Initiatives Division, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Past Chair, VSO – Canada Board.

Robert Suskind
Former Founding/Regional Dean, Texas Tech University, Health Centre, El Paso Campus, Former Dean, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

Stephen J. Toope
President of the University of British Columbia and former president of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.