Investments

  • UNECA@60 Innovation Challenge Award (2018)
  • Resource person/trainer on innovation policies and governance (2016-2019)
  • Invited reviewers of SANBio innovation commercialization projects -nutrition (2016-2019)
  • Technical Advisory Committee member of Bio-Innovate, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya (2010 to 2015)
  • Leader of NEPAD’s ASTII Work Package 3: Improving innovation measurement in Africa (2013 to 2019)
  • Member of the Technical Committee for the Review of the African Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (2011-2012).
  • Member of the Technical Committee tasked to develop the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa 2024 (STISA 2024) adopted by Heads of States in 2015.
  • Requested by the Government of Tanzania to train of Heads of Institutions and R&D Managers on technology development, transfer and commercialization (2012).
  • Expert advisor to the Broad-based Economic Empowerment Initiative of ILO, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Zambia Development Agency (on Business Incubators and Vendor Development) (2008-2009).
  • Fellow of The World Academy of Art and Science (since 2006).
  • Member of the International Advisory Panel of the Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium (CDPC, Ireland – 2008 – 13).
  • Included in “Who is Who in the World, 2007 to date” a collection of selected biographies of accomplished individuals.
  • Chair of the research and graduate committee for the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Zambia (2000).
  • Managing partner, founder and director, AEH (since 2017), Lusaka, Zambia. (www.aehglobal.com)
  • Managing partner, founder and director, SEMA Services in support of informal and small businesses (since 2017), Lusaka, Zambia. (www.semakazi.com)
  • The founder and promoter; African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (since 2012).
  • Managing partner, founder, AEH with a focus on innovative and entrepreneurial youths and start-ups (since 2006), Lusaka, Zambia.
  • The founder of Africa Technology Development Forum (www.atdforum.org) to expand access to African scientific and technological knowledge (since 2004), Geneva, Switzerland.
  • The founder of the Zambian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1996), Lusaka Zambia.
  • Currently leading the team developing Origin – Pan-African Research and Innovation Labs in the five regions of Africa
  • Helped AEH develop the Business and Marketing Plan 2019-2024 for the Southern African Network for Biosciences (SANBio) of NEPAD (ZAR238,390) by CSIR.
  • Helped raise CA$464,200 that supported youth-led start-ups, emerging entreprenuers and innovators in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe through seed funding, entrepreneurship training and mentorship support under the CultiAF-Expanding Business Opportunities for African Youth in Agricultural Value Chains in Southern Africa programme supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, and the Australian International Food Security Centre (AIFSC) (2015-2017).
  • Helped raise over $3 million in funding for innovation measurements through the African Science, Technology and Innovation and Indicators (ASTII) initiative led by NEPAD as a co-applicant.
  • Awarded £13,000 funding as a co-applicant by ESRC Global Challenge Research Fund – Impact Acceleration Account for the launch of the African Innovation Research Network (AIRNET, httpss://www.aehglobal.com/african-innovation-research-network/) (2016).
  • Awarded £9,980 research grant by British Academy and Leverhulme for a project on the use of ICTs by SMEs in Africa (2013-2014, with Y.K. Tang and S. Young, University of Glasgow)
  • Helped raise $312,000 for Engineering Expertise for Improved Healthcare in Africa (2011-2015).
  • Helped raise $500,000 to support young entrepreneurs in Zambia via AEH (2007-2009).
  • Awarded the Africa Careers Award ($32,000) by Rockefeller Foundation for post-doctoral research on drug resistance in malaria (2002).
  • Awarded the Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Biotechnology and Globalisation ($31,000) (Harvard University/Rockefeller Foundation) (2001).
  • Awarded for the best presentation by a young scientist ($500) at the first FASBMB conference (1996).