Professor Mammo Muchie,PhD, Faculty of Management Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Biography of Professor Mammo Muchie, The AUSC Presidency's Special Advisor Since August 2016 During the 6th Commonwealth Summer School 2016 at the University of Rwanda in Kigali RWANDA organized by the Association of the Commonwealth Universities:
Professor Mammo Muchie holds a PhD in Science, Technology, and
Innovation for Development (STI&D) from the University of Sussex.
UK. He is currently a DST/NRF rated Research Professor at the Faculty of
Management Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. He
is a fellow of the South African Academy of Sciences and the African
Academy of Sciences. He is also currently adjunct Professor at the Adama
Science, Technology University, Arsi University, Addis Ababa University
and University of Gondar, Ethiopia. He has been senior research
associate at the SPMTDC programme and also has become Senior Research
Associate at the TMD Centre of Oxford University. He is collaborating
with researchers (DILIC) on the potential research areas of Africa-China
industrial high-technology sectors. He has been invited as Associate
Faculty professor at Sussex University, UK for the next three years; at
the University of Economics in Prague as visiting professor, Jawarahal
Nehru University India, Tonji and Shanghai University, China; Honorary
Professor Jiaxing University, China, Assistant Professor Amsterdam
University, Visiting Professor Carleton College, USA; Principal
Lecturer, Middlesex University, Professor, Aalborg University; Part–time
Lecturer, Cambridge University; Honorary Professor UNISA. Professor
Mammo held various positions globally, including the Director of the
Research Programme on Civil Society and African Integration at the then
University of Kwa Zulu-Natal; board member at the North Western
University, Chengdu, China.
He is currently the chairman of the advisory board of African Talent
hub of the Community Interest Company (registration no.10461990) to
raise funds for making Africa the talent, innovation, entrepreneurship,
creativity and knowledge hub of the world. He has been appointed by the Office of the President of AUSC as
special distinguished advisor to the Presidency of the Africa Union Students' Council(AUSC)"For The Better Africa We Deserve" and a
mentor for the African Entrepreneurship award. He has initiated the
African Unity for Renaissance and Knowledge Exchange series of
conferences since the last six years. He is a founding scientific
advisor to ´the African Solar network, founding chairman of the Network
of Ethiopian scholars. He has lead the SIDA, Sweden funded research on
engineering design and on transformative innovation for African
integrated development and educate on public media to speed up the
creation of innovative and renascent Africa. He is also a co-founding
member of the Nano Technology Institute in TUT leading the innovation
side of the research.
He is a founding board member of Globelics, focusing research on the
challenges of building African innovation systems. He has promoted
Africa and highlighted African Innovation and Development in Globelics
foundation. He has served as scientific board members in a variety of
networks including ICAT, Medalics as part of the founding scientific
board member of the network that connects North Africa, with the Middle
East and Southern Europe, co-founder of the Africalics network. He
taught over 400 doctoral candidates in doctoral academies across the
world in the Globelics, Africalics, Cicalics, Indialics networks. He has
taken major initiatives for running Doctoral and Masters Academy in
various universities in Africa and all over the world. One such academy
is recently organised by the Association of Common Wealth Universities.
Also, he has been invited for many keynote addresses and lectures in
Africa and world-wide.
Perhaps one of the most significant contributions to promote the
emerging field on innovation studies in Africa was the South African
research Chairs Initiative (SARChI). The first chair on Innovation
Studies supported by the DST/NRF in South Africa was awarded to him to
promote doctoral and post-doctoral research in Africa.
Prof. Mammo is the chief editor and in the editorial board of many
scholarly international journals. His positions in the scholarly
journals are as follows; Founder Editor- in- Chief: African Journal of
Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Taylor and Francis;
Founder Chief editor, The Ethiopian Electronic Journal for Research
& Innovation Foresight (Ee-JRIF); Editor, Journal of Agriculture and
Economic Development, Founder Editor in chief of the new journal of
Creativity, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship; Editor: Journal of
Development and Agricultural Economics, Academic Journals; Editor:
Innovation and Development, Taylor and Francis; Editorial Board member
of The Nexus Innovation Journal, Tshwane University of Technology;
Institute and Economics (Formally Known as International Journal of
Institution and Economics), University of Malaya; Ethiopian Journal of
Business and Economics (The), African Journals Online; Journal of Social
and Economic Development: Official Publication of Institute for Social
and Economic Change; Journal of China and International Relations (CIR) ,
Aalborg University; Politikon: South African Journal of Political
Studies, Taylor and Francis; Financial Innovation, Springer; Social
Epistemology, A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, Taylor and
Francis.
He has been a scientific and academic advisor to the local
e-Governance research that involved ten African countries on ICT&D
funded by IDRC and managed by CAFRAD. He has been appointed as a
consultant on UNESCO’s higher education, Research and Knowledge forum.
He has served as a post-doctoral mentor in the NRF national postdoctoral
Forum.
He has published in the areas of: international political economy,
development economics of innovation and the making of African systems of
innovation, and new technologies and development across disciplines.
Since 1985, he has produced over 375 publications, including books,
chapters in books, and articles in internationally accredited journals
and entries in institutional publications.
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