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PDF version | French | Spanish Cyril Enweze Cyril Enweze, a national of Nigeria, has served as IFAD’s Vice President since 2002. He is the fifth Vice-President of IFAD and the first from a developing country. Before his appointment, Enweze was Vice-President of Operations for the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire for five years. He began his career in the Young Professionals Programme of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. During his 25 year career at the IMF, Enweze worked as Division Chief for the West, North West, and East African Divisions and also served as Assistant Director in the Indian Ocean Division. Enweze has published several articles on economy and finance. He holds postgraduate degrees in Economics from Columbia University in New York and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, as well as a B.Sc in Economics from the University of Nigeria. He is married to Virginia Chinwe and has two children. Richard Gerster Richard Gerster is a development economist and activist from Switzerland and the Director of Gerster Consulting, an independent consulting firm for public policy and international development. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of St. Gall in Switzerland. Gerster was a staff member of Helvetas, the Swiss Association for Development and Cooperation, from 1972 to 1981. He worked for the Swiss Coalition of Development from 1981 to 1998, serving first as Coordinator for Development Policy and than as Executive Director. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid to the Swiss Government from 1978 to 1994. In 2000, he was appointed to the Development Cooperation Advisory Council to the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Austria. Gerster has written numerous books and articles on development policy issues such as ICTs and poverty reduction, patents and development and globalisation and equity. A list of selected publications can be found at http://www.gersterconsulting.ch/docs/publications_RG.pdf Nathaniel Katinila Nathaniel Katinila has served as the Programme Coordinator for the AMSDP in Tanzania since
2002. The programme seeks to improve the performance, structure and conduct of Tanzania’s
agricultural marketing system. After receiving a Diploma in Agriculture in 1984 and obtaining a
degree from Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Katinila worked for the Ministry of
Agriculture as an Agricultural Research Officer. In 1994, he obtained a post-graduate degree in
Agricultural Economics from the University of East Anglia in the UK. He has studied socioeconomics,
information management, agricultural research and statistics. He has worked as a
Zonal Coordinator for Farming Systems Research, a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and has Clive Lightfoot Clive Lightfoot, a rural development consultant, has served as both Executive Director of the International Support Group (ISG) and as President of the International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) for the past four years. Since obtaining his PhD from Reading University in 1983, Lightfoot has focused on people-centered research and development in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. He has worked in many different institutional settings including collaborating on projects with the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), Cornell University, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the WorldFish Center, and international NGO’s such as the Centre for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture (ILEIA), the International Centre for Development Oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA) and ISG. His current research interests include knowledge management and the design and development of peer-topeer learning systems to address the organizational challenges associated with reconciling conflicts and building collaborative partnerships in natural resource management. He is also interested in marketing and the decentralization and privatization of agriculture support services and information services. Clare O’Farrell Clare O’Farrell represents FAO in international forums as an expert speaker on communication for development and contributes to FAO’s Programme on Bridging the Rural Digital Divide. She has 10 years professional experience in applying participatory communication approaches and media with a focus on the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to agriculture and rural development. Previously, O’ Farrell served as the Rural Development Officer for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Reading in the UK. Her recent publications include: Revisiting the Magic Box: Case studies on local Appropriation of ICTs (FAO 2004). The Role of Communication/ICTs in Agriculture and Rural Development for the Caribbean Region, for the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank, May 2004; Global Trends and Major Issues of ICT Application in Agriculture for the Asian Productivity Organization (APO 2002). Aida Opoku-Mensah Aida Opoku-Mensah, of Ghana, has worked on information ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives throughout Africa. She has worked for the Ford Foundation’s West Africa office in Lagos, Nigeria, and served as Regional Director of Panos Southern Africa, based in Lusaka, Zambia. She has written extensively on the media, ICTs and development in Africa. Her publications include: Signpost on the Superhighway: African Environment; Up in the Air: the state of broadcasting in Southern Africa, as well as Democratising Access to the Information Society, a theme paper for the African Development Forum '99 on Globalisation and the Challenges to Africa of the Information Age. She has also edited and contributed to the following publications: African Networking: Development Information, ICTs and Governance; African Media and ICT4D: Documentary Evidence; Benchmarking the Information Society in Africa: Implementing the WSIS Plan of Action; Twin Peaks WSIS from Geneva to Tunis and E-commerce Challenges in Africa: Issues, Constraints, and ICTs as Tools for Democratisation for African Women. 
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