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\n\tASSN has a 13-member Executive Committee that provides strategic leadership to the network. The Executive Committee is elected by the General Assembly to a three-year term.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t
Chair<\/p>\n
Dr. Niagal\u00e9 Bagayoko-Penone was the Programme Manager for the Maintenance and Consolidation of Peace Programme of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF). She has conducted extensive field research in several francophone African countries, much of it anchoring on the interface between security and development. She has been a lecturer at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) – University of Sussex (UK) and the Institute of Political Studies in Paris; an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Research and Education on Strategy and Technology (US-CREST); and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in France. In 2003, she won the Prize for Scientific Research awarded by the French Ministry of Defence. She has also been a consultant for the African Union; the Department for International Aid (DFID); the International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT); the Centre for Study of the Social Science of Defence (C2SD); and the French Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"Jerry](\"http:\/\/www.africansecuritynetwork.org\/wp_plug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Jerry-Kitiku.jpg\" "\\"Jerry")
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Vice Chair<\/p>\n
Lt Col (Rtd) Jerry Kitiku is the Director of the Security Research and Information Centre (SRIC-Kenya), a non-profit think tank that provides data and information on human security and the security sector in Kenya, the wider Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa. A retired Kenya Navy officer, Lt Col Kitiku is an expert on human security dynamics and conflict. He has both command and administrative experience at senior levels in the military and was a senior instructor at the Defence Staff College (DSC) in Nairobi. In the early 2000s, he was among a team of experts that crafted an Implementation Plan and Agenda for Action, on request by the Government of Kenya, for the Nairobi Declarations on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). He was also part of a research team that conducted national surveys on the problem of SALW and the development of national action plans in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Lt Col Kitiku also served for many years as a security attach\u00e9 in various Kenyan diplomatic missions abroad.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"hutchful\"](\"http:\/\/www.africansecuritynetwork.org\/wp_plug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/hutchful.jpg\" "\\"hutchful\\"")
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Executive Secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n Eboe Hutchful is a professor of African Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and has taught at several other universities in Africa and North America, including the University of Toronto, Trent and Waterloo Universities in Ontario, the University of Ghana and the University of Port Harcourt. He is a long-time researcher on civil-military relations, security sector reform, and international development issues. He is the author of Ghana’s Adjustment Experience: The Paradox of Reform<\/em> (James Currey, 2002), co-editor (with Wuyi Omitoogun) of Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa: the Processes and Mechanisms of Control<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2006), and co-editor (with Abdoulaye Bathily) of The Military and Militarism in Africa<\/em> (Codesria Books, 1998). Professor Hutchful is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (ABDM). He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF); the UN International Policing Advisory Council (IPAC); the Governing Board of the Global Consortium for Security Transformation (GCST); and the Advisory Group of the (erstwhile) Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Regional Coordinator, West Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Emile Ouedraogo is an adjunct professor of practice at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), specialising in issues related to national security strategy development and security sector reform and governance. Since 2007, he has worked with the Africa Center on more than 30 activities as a speaker, facilitator, and author. He also works with the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), Partners Global, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), and the ECOWAS Parliament. He is the founding President of the Fondation pour la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 du Citoyen (FOSEC) of Burkina Faso. Prior to joining the Africa Center, in 2017-18, Dr. Ouedraogo completed a six-month mission with the African Union as a security sector reform and governance expert for Madagascar. As Minister of Security of Burkina Faso from 2008 to 2011, he initiated and developed a Homeland Security Strategy and operationalised the concept of community policing and community participation in the management of security issues. After 30 years of service with the Burkina Faso Army, he retired from active duty in 2012 as a Colonel, having served in positions including Aide to the Prime Minister, Support Regiment Commanding Officer, and Chief of the Military Intelligence Division at the Army General Staff. Dr. Ouedraogo has served as a parliamentarian in the National Assembly of Burkina Faso and in the ECOWAS Parliament, where he sat on the Political Affairs, Peace, Defence, and Security Committees. In this capacity, he carried out informative and investigative missions in most of the 15 ECOWAS countries. He earned a PhD with honours from the Centre for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies in Paris, France, on security sector reform and governance in the ECOWAS Region.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Regional Coordinator, Southern Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n Sean Tait is the founder and Director of the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF). He holds a degree in Criminology from the University of Cape Town. He is a former Director of the Criminal Justice Initiative at the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, and the former Executive Director of the South African NGO, Urban Monitoring and Awareness Committee (UMAC). His areas of expertise include policing, police accountability, crime prevention, conflict resolution and peacebuilding.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Member<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Uju Agomoh is the founder and director of Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), a security, justice and development focussed NGO with regional\/continental initiatives in several African Countries. She has served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria (NHRC) and was the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Police, Prisons and Centres of Detention (2001-2008). She has also been a member of the Nigerian Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy (2006-2009); a Member of the coordinating committee of the Association of Security Sector Education and Training (ASSET); Council Member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT); Board Member of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA); and Chair of the ICPA Developing Countries Committee. Dr. Agomoh is also a Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria Institute for Development Studies (IDS). Her recent research work has focussed on the topics of gender and the criminal justice system, sustainability of penal reform interventions and management of pre-trial detention, mentally-ill detainees, prison-based and community-based re-entry programmes, and the prevention of torture.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Member<\/strong><\/p>\n Professor Medhane Tadesse is a specialist in African peace and security. He has taught at various universities in Ethiopia and abroad and has written extensively on African security and related topics, spawning four books, over 160 briefing papers, articles, commentaries and policy memos. More recently, he has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Global Studies, King’s College, London, lectureship on the governance of security. A lot of his work has dwelt on the pertinent issues of regime stability, vulnerability to conflict, ethnic conflict, armed violence, globalised security and diplomacy, militarisation, governance and humanitarian crisis in Africa. Professor Medhane has served as a consultant to several African governments, as well as international and inter-governmental organisations on issues relating to peace and stability. He runs the Peace and Security Studies Directorate at the Centre for Policy Research and Dialogue (CPRD) in Juba, South Sudan. He is also a columnist and frequent commentator on global and regional security issues, and is the editor of The Current Analyst<\/em>, an online journal that examines issues of peace and security in Africa.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Member<\/strong><\/p>\nDr. Kossi Mawuli Agokla is a Togolese national and a senior professor of public law. He graduated in international relations and public administration. He has served in high positions in the Togolese administration, notably, twice as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Internal Security and as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister in charge of reforms. Member<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Mpako Foaleng is a specialist in security sector reform (SSR) and governance, currently working with the United Nations Strategic Advisory Team to the Presidency of Burkina Faso. She has worked in various capacities including strategic advice, capacity and policy development, programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes. She advised and supported processes and policy development at various levels with the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union and at country level in countries such as The Gambia, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Madagascar, and Niger, just to cite a few. She served as an advisor to the United Nations team supporting the initiation of the SSR process in Guinea.<\/p>\n Prior to joining the team in Burkina Faso, Mpako served as the Security Sector Reform Advisor of the Office of the United Nations for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), where for more than two years she led and managed the SSR portfolio of the Office in support of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the 16 countries of the region. She coordinated and managed the secretariat of the West Africa Coast Initiative which brings together the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), Interpol and UNOWAS in the fight against transnational organised crime and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n From 2009 to 2015, she worked with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), which she initially joined as an adviser within the International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT), and later became head of the Africa Programme. In this capacity, she built and developed the Africa Programme, mobilised funds and initiated the implementation while putting its team together from scratch. She also negotiated with the authorities and the leadership the adhesion of Madagascar into the DCAF Foundation Council as a Member State. She implemented a key programme in Mali, where she built institutional relationships with the Ministry of Security and civil protection, and provided advisory services to the country’s Parliament providing which were catalytic for the creation of the first National Committee for SSR in 2014.<\/p>\n Mpako has worked for many years in the areas of human security and protection for civilians in conflict-affected and post-conflict situations for the Washington-based organisation Refugees International and for the Norwegian Refugee Council. She is the author of several studies including on the African Union reform, African Union reform, security sector reform programming and civil wars in Africa. Mpako has a doctorate in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a Laurea in political science from the University of Perugia in Italy. She has also studied at Yaound\u00e9 University II in Cameroon, her country of origin.<\/p>\n Fran\u00e7ais<\/em><\/p>\n Mpako Foaleng est sp\u00e9cialiste de la r\u00e9forme du secteur de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et de la gouvernance, actuellement membre de l’\u00e9quipe de conseil strat\u00e9gique des Nations Unies aupr\u00e8s de la Pr\u00e9sidence du Faso. Elle a exerc\u00e9 diverses fonctions, notamment de conseils strat\u00e9giques, d’appui au renforcement des capacit\u00e9s et \u00e0 l’\u00e9laboration des politiques et strat\u00e9gies, la conception de programmes, la mise en \u0153uvre, le suivi et l’\u00e9valuation de programmes. Elle a conseill\u00e9 et soutenu des processus et l’\u00e9laboration de politiques \u00e0 diff\u00e9rents niveaux avec l’ONU, la CEDEAO, l’Union Africaine et au niveau national dans des pays tels que la Gambie, le Burkina Faso, le Mali, la Guin\u00e9e, la R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo, Madagascar et le Niger pour n’en citer que quelques-uns. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 conseill\u00e8re aupr\u00e8s de l’\u00e9quipe des Nations Unies charg\u00e9e d’appuyer le lancement du processus de la r\u00e9forme du secteur de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 en Guin\u00e9e.<\/p>\n Avant de rejoindre l’\u00e9quipe au Burkina Faso, Mpako a \u00e9t\u00e9 la conseill\u00e8re en r\u00e9forme du secteur de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 du Bureau des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest et le Sahel, o\u00f9 elle a dirig\u00e9 et g\u00e9r\u00e9 pendant plus de deux ans le portefeuille de la RSS et conseill\u00e9 le repr\u00e9sentant sp\u00e9cial du secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des Nations Unies sur les 16 pays de la r\u00e9gion. Elle a coordonn\u00e9 et g\u00e9r\u00e9 le secr\u00e9tariat de l’Initiative de la c\u00f4te ouest-africaine, qui r\u00e9unit l’ONUDC, le D\u00e9partement des Op\u00e9rations de Maintien de la Paix, Interpol et l’UNOWAS dans la lutte contre le crime organis\u00e9 transnational et le trafic de drogue.<\/p>\n De 2009 \u00e0 2015, elle a travaill\u00e9 avec le Centre pour le contr\u00f4le d\u00e9mocratique des forces arm\u00e9es (DCAF) qu’elle a d’abord rejoint en tant que conseill\u00e8re au sein de l’\u00c9quipe de conseil du secteur de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 internationale (ISSAT) et plus tard en tant que chef du programme Afrique. \u00c0 ce titre, elle a d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 le programme, mobilis\u00e9 des fonds et initi\u00e9 la mise en \u0153uvre tout en construisant son \u00e9quipe. Elle a \u00e9galement n\u00e9goci\u00e9 avec les autorit\u00e9s et le leadership l’adh\u00e9sion de Madagascar au Conseil de fondation du DCAF en tant qu’\u00c9tat membre. Elle a mis en place un programme cl\u00e9 au Mali o\u00f9 elle a \u00e9tabli des relations institutionnelles avec le minist\u00e8re de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 et de la protection civile, le Parlement et fourni des conseils qui ont servi de catalyseur pour la cr\u00e9ation du premier comit\u00e9 national de la RSS en 2014.<\/p>\n Mpako a aussi travaill\u00e9 pendant plusieurs ann\u00e9es dans les domaines de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 humaine et de la protection des civils dans les situations de conflit et d’apr\u00e8s conflit pour les organisations telles que le Norwegian Refugee Council et Refugees International.<\/p>\n Elle est l’auteur de plusieurs \u00e9tudes, notamment sur la r\u00e9forme de l’Union africaine, la programmation de la r\u00e9forme du secteur de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et les guerres civiles en Afrique.<\/p>\n Elle est titulaire d’un doctorat en relations internationales de l’Institut universitaire de hautes \u00e9tudes internationales et du d\u00e9veloppement de Gen\u00e8ve et d’une Laurea en sciences politiques de l’Universit\u00e9 de P\u00e9rouse en Italie. Elle a aussi \u00e9tudi\u00e9 \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Yaound\u00e9 II au Cameroun d’o\u00f9 elle est originaire.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ASSN has a 13-member Executive Committee that provides strategic leadership to the network. The Executive Committee is elected by the General Assembly to a three-year term. Dr. Niagal\u00e9 Bagayoko-Penone Chair Dr. Niagal\u00e9 Bagayoko-Penone was the Programme Manager for the Maintenance and Consolidation of Peace Programme of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF). She has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-276","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Emile\"](\"http:\/\/www.africansecuritynetwork.org\/wp_plug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emile.jpg\" "\\"Emile\\"")
\n\tDr. Emile Ouedraogo<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\n\tMr. Sean Tait<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\n\tDr. Uju Agomoh<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\n\tProfessor Medhane Tadesse<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n\tDr. Kossi Mawuli Agokla<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nHe has also served as an international civil servant in the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA) as Secretary-General of the Commission, among other engagements. At the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), he led the African Security Sector Reform Programme (ASSEREP) for almost six years, implementing programmes on defence and the security forces mostly in Francophone African countries, and law enforcement related to electoral processes; strategic and operational plans; Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) including stockpile management; Gender issues on National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325 and Gender Policy paper; Civilian and military relations; democratic control of the security sector; and monitoring of national SSR processes.\nDr. Agokla has participated in and facilitated several workshops in Europe and throughout Africa on SSR issues. He has contributed to several publications, articles and tools on SSR and has collaborated with many institutions including the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), and the Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP).
\nHe has been an active member of the ASSN over the past decade and has conducted some of its major activities.\n\t\t\t\t![\"mpako-2-300x286\"](\"http:\/\/www.africansecuritynetwork.org\/wp_plug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mpako-2-300x286-1.jpg\" "\\"mpako-2-300x286\\"")
\n\tDr. Mpako Foaleng<\/strong><\/h4>\n