Since 1998, the Society for International Development’s East African Futures Programme has engaged a broad selection of East African policy actors to develop and reflect on possible alternative futures for their countries and the region.
Four of the leaders of these projects to the U.S. and to Global Information Network will discuss their work, their insights, and their perspectives on the future of East Africa. The moderator for the event is Elchi Nowrojee.
Global Information Network, 146 W. 29th St, Suite 7E , New York Refreshments will be available.
About the Panel
Arthur Muliro is deputy managing director at the International Secretariat of the Society for International Development (SID) in Rome . He leads SID’s futures programme and has overseen the East African country and regional scenario projects.
Duncan Okello is the SID regional director in Nairobi , where he previously worked with the Institute of Economic Affairs . His past and current research concerns gender and inequality, urbanization, extractive industries and the Kenyan elections of December 2007.
Aidan Eyakuze is program director, EA Scenarios, and cofounder of Serengeti Advisers (Tanzania). He participated in the SID East African scenarios projects and others in South Africa and Nigeria . Previously he worked in corporate banking and as an economist with a consulting company analyzing and facilitating private sector opportunities in East Africa.
Barbara Heinzen, a geographer based in London , facilitated several of the SIDS projects. She specializes in scenario planning and research on development and environmental challenges and is the author of Feeling for Stones: Learning and Invention When Facing the Unknown.
For a preview of their work, please see the following publications: Kenya at the Crossroads & the Kenya Scenarios Research Compendium (2000)
www.kenyascenarios.org
Tutafika Tanzania: Imagining our Future (2003)
www.tutafika.org
State of East Africa Report 2006 – Trends Tensions and Contradictions: The Leadership Challenge
www.sidint.org
State of East Africa Report 2007 – Searching for the Soul of East Africa
www.sidint.org
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