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ABOUT IMANI
We have carved a niche in Ghana's policy environment for putting out objective, independent analysis and critique on many issues, using tried and tested techniques that apply across different disciplines. Through effective communication skills and the ability to work with public-spirited media and civil society, we are shaping national, regional and global agenda in order to close the "citizen participation gap" in the governance process.
IMANI has over 50 media allies in Africa. Like other public policy think tanks, we produce high-quality, relevant research. We distinguish ourselves when it comes to media impact, and especially when it comes to our capacity to reach out to ordinary citizens through a wide variety of mass-circulation newspapers, the internet, and appearances on popular television and radio shows. We can say that "pound for pound," we have by far the highest media profile of any think tank in West Africa.
Mr. Sam Poku
Board Chairman
Born on March 19, 1939, at Old Tafo, Kumasi, the fourth of eight children and third son of Maame Akosua Yeboaah, (aka Abrewa Kokoo-Trader in Kumasi Market, a daughter of the Tafohene, Nana Yaw Dabanka. Father was Kojo Poku, a lorry driver/transport operator, also hailed from Old Tafo. Methodist Primary School, Old Tafo, Kumasi, 1947-1952 Local Authority Middle School, Bantama, Kumasi, 1953-1955 Achimota Secondary School "O" and "A" Levels 1956-1962 University of Ghana, Legon (BA Hons-Sociology) 1962-1965 Appointed Assistant Planning Officer, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning 1965 on study leave in the Planning Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Abandoned the course (MA Planning) to work in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning 1966-1967 Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship to the School of Planning, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada-MA (Planning) 1967-1969. On my way to Vancouver through London, visited Ottawa and Expo '67 in Montreal. On a study tour while studying in UBC, visited Eugene Oregon, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Sacramento, and Mexico City. Returning from Vancouver in 1969, visited Toronto, Hamilton, Chicago and New York. On Euro Pass, toured European cities-West Berlin, East Berlin, Bremen, Geneva, Vienna, Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Zurich, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Worked with the Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning 1969-1976 as Planning Officer Attended Management Training Program at the University of Bradford, England, July-Sept 1971, on British Council scholarship. Attended Project Planning and Infrastructure Services course at the US Dept. of Agriculture, Wash DC, July 1974-Sept 1975 on USAID Technical Assistance Program. Study tour to Mexico, visited Eugene (Portland), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Hollywood, and attended seminars across the USA. Worked at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare as Rural Planning Officer-1975-76 Joined the Ghana Chamber of Mines as its Asst Exec Secretary, 1976-1980, and CEO, 1980-1996. Created a new logo for the Chamber of Mines, highlighting both surface and underground mining. Played a significant role during the Economic Recovery (ERP) in getting benefits for the mining industry. Obtained a selective exchange rate for the Mines, overseas retention of foreign exchange to support imports. Did advocacy for the mining industry through direct contact with Parliament. Ensured peace and stability on the mines by forging cordial relations between the companies and the Ghana Mineworkers Union (GMU). Earned a nickname U Thant (Third Secretary-General of the United Nations 1961-1971) for excelling at conditions of service negotiations. Established committees within the Chamber to find solutions to industrial and employment issues. In order to grow the Chamber, created avenues for mining-related companies/organizations to join the Chamber as exploration or affiliate members, like suppliers, contractors, auditing firms, etc. From the original membership of purely five mining companies, comprising Ashanti Goldfields (AGC), Ghana Bauxite Company (GBC), Ghana Consolidated Diamonds (GCD), Ghana National Manganese Corporation (GNMC), and State Gold Mining Corporation (SGMC consisting of Tarkwa, Prestea, Konongo and Dunkwa Mines) and only two Associate members, membership increased to about 60. Represented the Chamber in forums, both local and international. International Labour Organization (ILO), for example. Attended mining seminars in Zimbabwe (1982) and South Africa (1995) Attended mining conference/exhibition in Las Vegas 1995 and Salt Lake City 1996. Honoured by the Ghana Mineworkers Union (GMU) in the 1980s Made Fellow of Commonwealth Hall, Univ of Ghana, Legon, 1990 Member, Council of the Ghana Employers' Association 1978-1996. Member, Advisory Board of the School of Administration 1980-1996 Member, University of Ghana Finance Committee 1994-1996. Member, Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGh) 1999 to-date Honoured by the Institute of Statistics, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Legon, for regular participation in their programs and events. Board Chairman, EQUITY assurance ltd 2008-2013 Chairman of IMANI Board of Trustees since 2009. Honoured by the Ghana Chamber of Mines for "inestimable contribution to the mining industry" at the Ghana Mining Industry Maiden Awards Night 2015 Honoured by The Ghana Mineworkers' Union of TUCG for his critical role in removing the hitherto adversarial Union/Management relationship within the mining industry. Toured USA on a training program with Center for International Private Enterprise of the US Chamber of Commerce (CIPE) through the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in 1996. After retirement in 1996, consulted for the UNDP. In Jan 2002, covered visit to Ghana by Dr Hernando de Soto, the world-acclaimed Peruvian Economist. In Sept 2002, covered visit to Ghana by President Bill Clinton and Dr Hernando de Soto. Worked for Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) of the US Chamber of Commerce as Training Instructor, among others, 1997-2002. Trained business associations in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, Cameroon, Ethiopia under CIPE programs In June 2002, at the invitation of the West Africa Business Association (WABA UK) head office in London, established WABA (Ghana). In Sept 2002, appointed CEO, WABA (GH). Due to its expansion into East, Central, and Southern Africa, the parent association WABA (UK) changed its name to Business Council for Africa-BCA. Therefore, WABA (GH) in August 2010 became BCA (GH). At the time of my retirement in April 2017, membership had increased from six to about 100. (The pioneering member companies were Taysec, Coca-Cola, Calbank, Stanchart, Oceanic Shipping Company and Golden Tulip Hotel which hosted the launch of the association in June 2002. Religion: Christian and worship at the Accra Ridge Church Married to Mary Yvonne Poku, an entrepreneur and President of the AGLOW International, Korle-Bu Chapter, with six adult children and 13 grandchildren. Accra Sept 22, 2019
Phone:233 24 432 9622
Email:pokusamuel@gmail.com
Cpt. Rtd. Budu Koomson
Dr. Tony Oteng Gyasi
Franklin Cudjoe
Franklin is the Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, a think tank of global repute dedicated to the promotion of the institutions of a free society across Africa. IMANI has been consistently ranked among the top 5 most influential think tanks in sub- Saharan Africa and among the top 100 worldwide. In 2010 Franklin was consulted by the U. K's Prime Minister's office on how to make effective use of British aid in Africa. Franklin has hosted and shared panels with former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minster, Anwar Ibrahim, Swiss President, Doris Leuthard, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and debated former Tanzanian President, Benjamin Mkapa when he was president in 2005. In 2010, Franklin was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was named a fellow of the Africa Leadership Network in 2012, and the only named Think Tank Leader in "Top 50 Africans" List of the respected Africa Report Magazine in 2012. Franklin was hosted as a 'Special Visitor' by the Australian government in 2015, touring five cities and interacting with business leaders, politicians, think tank leaders, cultural leaders and the leadership of the foreign and trade department. In 2015, Franklin was one of nine global leaders selected by the UK government to participate in its Future Leaders Programme. Franklin was one of three global leaders hosted by the European Union Visitors Programme in 2016. In 2017, Franklin was one of three gkobal alumi of the University of St. Gallen's International Students Symposium to be honoured in Switzerland for their impactful initiatives since the founding of the programme. Franklin is a member of Ghana's Finance Ministry's Foreign Exchange Development Committee to advise on issues of currency flows. He was a member of DANIDA's Sounding Board for Private Sector initiatives in Ghana. Franklin has several appearances in both print and broadcast media, shared insightful perspectives about Africa development issues on the BBC, CBC, Swiss and Swedish National TV, Austrian National Radio and varied local Ghanaian media and been published (sometimes quoted) in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, UK Daily Telegraph, San Francisco Chronicle, Ottawa Citizen, Bangkok Post, Japan Times, South African Star, Cape Times, and Business Day, influential Nigerian, Kenyan, Rwandan, Ugandan, Zimbabwean and Zambia media. Franklin's views on the damaging effects of corruption in Africa was cited in a 2006 UK's Parliament debate on aid and corruption in Africa. A South African High Court Judge cited Franklin's views on patents in his ruling. Franklin is one of nine African think tank leaders and Commissioners of "The Zimbabwe Papers", a blueprint which examines the causes of Zimbabwe's social and economic problems and offers urgent and practical reform that will enable the country to become a thriving, peaceful and prosperous country. He is a co-author of Fighting the Diseases of Poverty, The Reality of Water Provision in Urban Africa, The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity,: and Hobbled Trade: Trade Barriers within Africa. Franklin is a co-author of The State of Education in Ghana. Franklin is still pursuing part-time doctoral studies( needs a lot of faith, time and courage 🤣) at Buckingham University (UK). He is an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation's Think Tank MBA programme and the Montreal Economic Institute's Think Tank Training Programme. He has a B.Sc. in Land Economy from KNUST.
Bright Simons
Honorary Vice-President
Nationality: Ghanaian Country experience: Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt, Sènégal, Ethiopia, Gambia, Sierra Leone, India, USA, Europe and Latin America. Bright Simons, is the President of mPedigree [www.mpedigree.com], a social enterprise working on three continents in partnership with governments, several of the Fortune 500 companies and grassroots organisations to spread innovative technologies that secure communities from the harmful effects of counterfeiting, especially in such sensitive sectors as health, agriculture, cosmetics and automotive. Bright has shaped mPedigree's relentless innovation cycle for more than a decade, helping steer the organisation from a focus on authentication and supply chain technologies into the broader spaces of smart sensors, analytics, and intelligent decision support systems. His latest work on the application of "smart polymers" to health cold chain problems has been supported by the Harvard Innovation Labs, among others. Bright's public-spirited work precedes and extends beyond mPedigree. For nearly two decades he has straddled public policy, social and civic activism and prolific "citizen journalism" in what he considers the "digital public square", writing for such influential outlets as the online edition of the Harvard Business Review, Quartz magazine, the BBC's Business Daily show, and the Huffington Post. He is a frequent collaborator and participant in multi-disciplinary efforts that seek to collide silos and cut across lines of difference in the search for solutions. Recent commitments include membership in the inaugural Microsoft Africa Advisory Council, the Lancet Commission on the Future of Health in Africa, the Centre for Global Development's Study Group on Technology, the World Economic Forum's Africa Strategy Group, the inaugural Ashoka Globalizer initiative, the Africa Population Health Research Centre, Care International, and IC Publications, owner of the New African magazine. As an early Director at IMANI he has been instrumental in the organisation's innovative use of rigorous research-generated evidence in high-stakes political accountability, anti-corruption, and civil liberty projects, thereby contributing to IMANI's continuous recognition as one of the world's most innovative think tanks and among Africa's top 5 institutions of its kind. As a member of successive World Economic Forum Global Agenda and Future Councils, an inaugural TED Fellow, an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow, and an Aspen Braddock Scholar and Global Leadership Network Fellow, he spends a considerable amount of energy working to build and sustain networks of solution seekers around the world, united by common values. In the course of such activities, he is regularly consulted on innovation strategy by international organizations such as the World Bank, UNECA, USAID, the EU, and the Commonwealth. Bright is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award from the African Innovation Foundation and was named to a list of the 35 most impressive global technology visionaries under age 35 by the MIT's Tech Review in 2013. He features quite regularly on similar lists. For example, Quartz magazine ranked him among their top 30 innovators in 2015 and both the Africa Report and New African magazines have listed him on their Most Influential Persons' lists in recent years. In 2016, he was announced as the CNBC All-Africa Business Leader of the Year in the innovation category. In 2016, Fortune magazine named him on their 50 World Greatest Leaders list.
Kofi Bentil
Snr. Vice-President
Mrs. Sandra Cudjoe
Foundation Trustee
Sandra is a foundation trustee. She is currently the CEO of Budget Place Company Limited. She has a background in accounting and management.
Selorm Branttie
Nationality: Ghanaian Country experience: Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt, Sènégal, Ethiopia, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, India, and USA. Selorm Branttie considers himself a member of the "maker movement" in Africa, but he practices as an ICT business specialist. Originally a land economist by training, he began to take a strong interest in ICT after a chance posting to a Ghanaian government agency exposed him to horrific levels of corruption in the land registration and administration system. The more he probed, the more he realised that ninety percent of the abuse could be curtailed by redesigning the behavioral processes in the bureaucracy, and that technology mechanisms could drive these changes more cheaply and effectively than mere political reform. Though he did not stay long enough to see his technology-inspired vision fully realised, the rudimentary prototype he implemented without a budget was still in use a decade and half after he left the agency. In 2005, he joined what will eventually become Ghana's most vocal and storied civil activist and policy research organisation, IMANI, barely a year after the organisation's founding. Selorm was also the first webmaster for Africaliberty.org, a free market online portal that was the first in Africa to disseminate ideas on free market. He went on to design and implement communications strategies for IMANI, contributing to the organization being named among the world's top 100 think tanks by the United Nations and in the top 5 of African research institutes in consecutive years by the University of Pennsylvania. Whilst consulting on IT initiatives for the UN and other development sector agencies, completing an MBA, supporting IMANI's growth and working to overthrow corrupt bureaucrats in Ghana's procurement system, he also decided to nurture another passion of his: teaching. He taught computer systems, technology and management information systems in Ghanaian universities for 7 years, supervising numerous graduate theses, and leading the implementation of large scale ERPs and CRMs for development sector initiatives. He is credited with a groundbreaking scheme to link outdoor advertising and geolotteries with philanthropic giving. Selorm later abandoned his PhD studies and life in academia so that he could focus full-time on his work overseeing mPedigree's stakeholder engagement management in the organisation's expansion drive and IMANI's bid to expand its pro-good governance advocacy and activism beyond Ghana's shores into multiple African countries. His most recent activities include shepherding a complex effort by COMESA (the regional political and economic union connecting East, Central and Southern Africa's 19 countries) to overhaul its phytosanitary compliance program in order to harmonise it with the OECD regime utilising mPedigree's Goldkeys technologies; and leading a crack investigative team to expose a procurement racket within the Ghanaian telecom regulatory sector that has cost the country more than $300 million since 2015. Selorm sees himself as a "socially minded" and "publicly spirited" geek.
Josephine Adjei-Tenkorang
Program Coordinator, Monitoring and Controlling
Josephine Adjei-Tenkorang is a Programme Coordinator and the Executive Assistant to the President at IMANI. She holds a Master's Degree in Project Management.
Caroline Dufie Ackom
Accounts & Finance Officer
Caroline Dufie Ackom is the Accounts and Finance Officer at IMANI. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and currently pursuing her Chartered Accountancy at ICAG.
Dennis Asare
Senior Research Associate & Independent Consultant
Dennis Asare is a senior research associate at IMANI. He holds a Master of Law (LLM) in Energy Law and Policy from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland.
Amprofi Agyemang
Amprofi is a Senior Research Associate of IMANI. Amprofi's professional and vocational interests have extended across an array of local and international institutions and have ranged from managing, monitoring and evaluating programs to programme/project implementation. He has held programme implementation posts with Culmen International LLC- a US State Department sub-contractor and as Regional Advocacy Manager (West Africa) for the African Network against Extra-Judicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances. He's served as Country Program Manager in the Gambia and Senegal for the Article 19 Center Against Censorship (UK). From 2014 to 2017, Amprofi served as Political Affairs Officer within the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) acting as focal point for ECOWAS, the Mano River Union and the African Union engagements and managing aspects of UNMIL's peace-building fund projects relating to the Political Affairs Section. His training is in Politcs, International Relations and Program Management and currently studies Law.
Dr. Theo Acheampong
Dr Theophilus Acheampong is an economist and political risk analyst with over ten years' experience working with governments, private investors, policy agencies and international organisations on natural resource governance and public financial management issues. He has worked as an independent consultant on various global energy industry projects, mainly upstream oil and gas, and providing economic analysis and market research covering frontier emerging markets. His areas of specialisation include energy policy formulation, taxation and investment analysis; the latter includes extractives fiscal regime design and modelling. Other areas include trade and investment promotion and financial analysis of public sector entities, including programming, data analysis and budgeting. Dr. Acheampong also specialises in analysing political and business risks in Sub-Saharan Africa. This includes producing forward-looking risk reports covering economic (sovereign, fiscal and monetary policy), legal (expropriation and contract risks) and operational risks (corruption and regulatory burden) for several global clients. Dr. Acheampong holds a PhD in economics and a Master of Science in petroleum, energy economics and finance from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He is an Associate Lecturer at The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee. He is also an Associate Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow at the Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance (ACREEF), University of Aberdeen. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at Ghanaian Think Tank IMANI Centre for Policy and Education. Dr. Acheampong is quoted in several international and local media such as the BBC, Bloomberg, AFP, and CNBC, among others. He has over 70 research-based publications, including one edited volume and two monographs, seven book chapters, 18 refereed journal articles, and 50-plus commissioned reports in various fields. His recent co-edited book, Petroleum Resource Management in Africa: Examining the Lessons from Ten Years of Oil and Gas Production in Ghana (Palgrave McMillan, 2022), has received wide acclaim.
Prof. Godfred A. Bopkin
Professor Godfred A. Bokpin is an Economist and Professor of Finance. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics from the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University in Japan, Master of Philosophy Degree in Finance and B.Sc. (Admin) in Accounting with First Class Honours from the University of Ghana. Professor Bokpin combines three broad disciplines of accounting, finance and economics and the interrelations between them in his teaching and research that uniquely distinguishes his output. He was the Head, Department of Finance, University of Ghana Business School from August 2014 to July 2018. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2010 after his two year probation in the University, Associate Professor of Finance in 2015 and Professor in 2018. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including financial management, strategic corporate finance, sustainable finance, renewable energy finance, responsible investment, green banking, inclusive growth, sustainable development, green economy, climate financing, green bonds. In the last five years, his research and advocacy has focused more on pro-poor programs, inclusive growth, sustainable development, inequality and climate change issues. He has over 40 articles in high impact journals in addition to edited conference proceedings, edited books, and book chapters to his credit. He has extensive experience consulting for industry, Civil Society Organisations, and government institutions. His partial clients include UBA Ghana, African Development Bank (AfDB), Bank of Ghana, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in Kenya, SEND Ghana, Civil Society Platform on the IMF Program in Ghana (now Economic Governance Platform), Ghana Integrity Initiative, Oxfam, Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, USAID, UNDP, UN Human Settlement Program (UN-HABITAT) etc. He has in recognition of his research on global issues received invitation to the IMF-World Bank 2017 annual meetings in Washington, USA and also appeared on a number of local and international platforms including Joy FM, Citi FM, BBC, Blomberg, Economist, Financial Times etc. He works well with the youth and regularly interacts with the youth. Professor Bokpin enjoys studying the Bible and preaching the gospel in the rural areas. After first degree in Accounting, Masters in Finance and PhD in Economics, he believes the only knowledge that transforms and saves from eternal destruction is the Knowledge of the Son of God (Jesus Christ)
Dr. Frank Boateng
Dr. Frank Boateng is a Chartered Global Management Accountant, Chartered Manager, and Lecturer at University of Mines & Technology in Ghana. He has over Twenty years' experience in the Extractive Industry and has helped raised funds and built three gold mines in Ghana and Mauritania. Dr. Boateng serves as an advisor and board member of boards in Ghana and USA. He is a Chartered Accountant, Business Development and Enterprise Risk Strategist. Dr. Boateng holds a PhD in Management with concentration in Accounting from Walden University (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA); M.Phil in Business Consulting & Enterprise Risk Management from The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana); MBA in Finance from The University of Leicester (Leicester, UK) and BSc. in Business Administration (Accounting Option) from Central University Business School (Accra, Ghana). He also holds a certificate in introduction to Investments from Ghana Stock Exchange and has participated in several professional training programs and conferences in the UK, USA, Australia, France, UAE, Kenya, Mauritania, SA, Tanzania, and Ghana. Dr. Boateng started his career at the erstwhile Obenemase Gold Mines Ltd in Konongo (Now Oware Mine Ltd) and moved to Satellite Goldfields Ltd (Now Golden Star Resources Wassa Mine) and subsequently worked as Financial Accountant at Goldfields Ghana Ltd Damang Mine. He later joined Newmont Ghana Gold as Senior Business Analyst and Chirano Gold Mines (Now Kinross Mining Corporation) as Senior Mine Accountant responsible for payables. Frank was appointed as the Financial Controller for Redback Mining's Tasiast Mauritania Mine in Mauritania. He later joined the startup of Adamus Resources Ltd as Finance and Administration Manager and subsequently appointed as Commercial Manager after the merger with Endeavour Mining Corporation. He also worked as the Country Managing Director for Equipxp Mining & Construction Ghana Ltd. Speciality: Enterprise Risk Management; Mine Administration & Financial Management; & Extractives Sustainability Management.
Mr. Franklin Asare
Franklin Asare is currently the Chief Executive Officer of TechGulf Ghana Limited. Franklin was appointed in September 2020 to lead continental operations for TechGulf LLC, an IT firm headquartered in San Francisco. Franklin joined the company from Oracle Corporation where he was the Country Director of the subsidiary in Ghana. Franklin has brought 25 years ICT experience to the board and is contributing to business revenue through leadership. He is the Chairman of Hacklab Foundation, a not-for-profit organization in Ghana, focused on preparing the youth for future jobs by helping them develop vital technology skills. Through the Hacklab initiative, Franklin supervises work to see the next generation of entrepreneurs and African technology leaders are born and nurtured. Franklin is the AmCham IT Committee Chairman. In 2019, he was adjudged the ICT Professional of the year by a panel of eminent judges and subsequently presented an award by the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana. Franklin is an alumnus of Manchester Business School; a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana; and Graduate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK).
Mr. Casely Ato Coleman
Education: MSc Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, London School of Economics, London – United Kingdom, MPhil Public Administration & Organisational Behaviour Institution, University of Bergen, Norway, BA (Hons) Political Science and Psychology, University of Ghana, Accra Ghana. Country experience: Ethiopia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kenya, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Liberia, USA and United Kingdom. Casely Ato Coleman has over 25 years' experience in International development, Leadership, Human Resource & Organizational Development in the profit and non-profit sector. Casely has held senior leadership roles as Country Director, Plan International, in Sierra Leone; Senior Director of Operations for World Vision International for West and Central Africa where he provided oversight for Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Security, Gender, Advocacy, Communications, Investment & Strategy Alignment and Implementation. He has previously worked as Regional Director of HR for World Vision, West and Central Africa; Regional Head of HR for Plan International, West and Central Africa; Director of HR, Plan International, Senegal; Head of HR & Communication, Plan International, Ghana; Organizational Development Analyst for Western Teleysytem (now AirtelTigo); Assistant HR Manager, Societe Generale De Surveillance, Ghana; Project Officer, World Bank Desk and International Economics Relations Division, Ministry of Finance, Ghana. As Country Director for Plan International Sierra Leone, he was awarded the International NonGovernmental Organization (INGO) leader of the year award in 2016 by the Sierra Leone Council of CEOs for the leadership and excellence he displayed during the Ebola crisis in that country. Under his leadership as Country Director, Plan International Sierra Leone, won 4 global awards as well as a President of Sierra Leone silver award. Casely has consulted for the United Nations Population Fund, Africa Union Commission, Open Society Foundation West Africa, World Vision International Bosnia Herzegovina, Oxfam International Sierra Leone, Solidaridad West Africa Region, Plan International Nigeria, Plan International Ghana, Tullow Oil etc. He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School and a Visiting Professor of HR & Organizational Change & Behaviour at the Institute Superieur De Management (ISM), Dakar, Senegal. He is also the editor of the Pentvars Business Journal, an international referred journal of the Pentecost University Ghana and a Senior Fellow of IMANI Africa Centre for Policy Education, a leading think tank in Ghana and Africa. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Ghana, a Master of Philosophy degree in Public Administration from the University of Bergen, Norway and a Master of Science in Industrial Relations & HR from the London School of Economics, UK and a Certificate in HR Excellence from the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, UK. Casely has published extensively in HR and international development and has over 32 publications, including 10 peer reviewed publications in international scholarly journals. Casely's areas of expertise include leading complex emergencies, international development programmes management, business transformation, HR strategy, design and leadership, Public Policy Analysis, Change Management, leadership development, organizational diagnosis, organizational redesign, strategy development and execution, enterprise risks management.


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Comet 67P, there is an alien base that transmits sounds!
November 8, 2019, By Cognitio | Leave a reply
Comet 67P, there is an alien base that transmits sounds! Original article by Alessandro Brizzi.
As reported long ago by the famous British tabloid METRO, UFO conspiracy theorists are on the alert after hearing the bizarre alien sounds emanating from the Comet 67P organic comet – made famous by the Rosetta mission. Some UFO researchers are convinced that it is not the Comet that emits these unknown sounds, but it is an Extraterrestrial Transmission sent by an alien base that is clearly visible on the celestial body, and the images taken by the Rosetta Probe confirm it.
The 67P comet is one of the most famous and mysterious objects in the Kuiper belt, after the Rosetta mission collected samples from its icy surface in 2014. Rosetta's incredible discoveries showed that organic molecules and oxygen existed in the dust emitted by the Comet 67P. Now the comet is again at the center of the mystery, after an unknown audio source has been recorded by NASA thanks to Rosetta. For UFO researchers, this is proof that an unknown transmission was sent from an extraterrestrial structure visible in the images taken by the NASA space probe. This structure is quite large and has two antennas that are visible in the photographs below.
in the images taken by the NASA space probe a fairly large structure is visible which has two antennas that are visible in the photo
The otherworldly sound, composed of oscillating analogue noises, has been brought to light by UFO researcher Scott C Waring. "I listened to and recorded the sounds picked up by the 67P comet and slowed them down so I could listen to them better," Waring wrote. "I really feel it contains an alien message."
A UFO is recorded by the NASA space probe. This object is followed up to its approach with the surface of the Comet 67 / P
A UFO is photographed by the Rosetta probe on the surface of the Comet 67P
enlargement of the unknown object photographed on the Comet 67P
UFO hunters long ago identified a mysterious object on the surface of the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which would be evidence of the existence of alien underground structures, or better, alien outposts. The UFO researchers are convinced that these structures or protuberances that protrude from the surface of the comet, could be similar to antennas that transmit on frequencies that are not perceived on Earth, that is, on frequency bands still not accessible to us. These sound frequencies are those recorded by the Rosetta probe, composed of oscillating analogue noises.
A mysterious antenna photographed by the Rosetta probe
According to the Ufologists, this sound transmission recorded on the Comet 67P is the further proof (after the discovery of the alien base with three antennas) that the comet could have the function of an ALIEN RADIAL, which is used to define one or more routes of any spaceships coming from other star systems. Other ufologists speculate that this base could be an extraterrestrial mining structure.
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package smile.clustering.linkage;

/**
 * Weighted Pair Group Method using Centroids (also known as median linkage).
 * The distance between two clusters is the Euclidean distance between their
 * weighted centroids. Only valid for Euclidean distance based proximity matrix.
 *
 * @author Haifeng Li
 */
public class WPGMCLinkage extends Linkage {
    /**
     * Constructor.
     * @param proximity  the proximity matrix to store the distance measure of
     * dissimilarity. To save space, we only need the lower half of matrix.
     */
    public WPGMCLinkage(double[][] proximity) {
        this.proximity = proximity;
        for (int i = 0; i < proximity.length; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < i; j++)
                proximity[i][j] *= proximity[i][j];
        }
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "WPGMC linkage";
    }

    @Override
    public void merge(int i, int j) {
        for (int k = 0; k < i; k++) {
            proximity[i][k] = (proximity[i][k] + proximity[j][k]) / 2 - proximity[j][i] / 4;
        }

        for (int k = i+1; k < j; k++) {
            proximity[k][i] = (proximity[k][i] + proximity[j][k]) / 2 - proximity[j][i] / 4;
        }

        for (int k = j+1; k < proximity.length; k++) {
            proximity[k][i] = (proximity[k][i] + proximity[k][j]) / 2 - proximity[j][i] / 4;
        }
    }
}

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Inside the fire, the path away.
How long, will our worlds be true?
Red, white blossoms and the morning dew.
A world of hateful demons wait.
When all else, goes beyond your desire.
Welcome, to my world, new blood, immortal.
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The fallen, the yesterday, the new tommorow.


Time for another Soundbyte, after one of those perfect Sundays. Great weather, BBQ, enjoying the family, what's not to like? Just before the weekend we had a Luminis Technologies meeting where we brainstormed about our strategy, so that definitely provided some food for thought as well. As usual, there's lot's of things going on in parallel.
One of those things going is the development of a book by Paul and me. Back in Februari, Paul introduced the book he and I are writing. Several months have passed, so it's time for an update! We have been writing diligently, with about half of the content ready in rough draft state now. A particularly important external milestone was when the Jigsaw prototype was merged into the main OpenJDK codebase. The modularization of Java has been postponed so many times, this move gave us at least some peace of mind.
Earlier this month, we asked some members of the Oracle Jigsaw team to become technical reviewers. Luckily, they agreed, so we can send the first chapters for technical review as well. Once these reviews have been processed, we should have enough decent content for an 'Early Release' version. An Early Release with O'Reilly is a public release of parts of the book before any final editing. First electronically, and possibly in printed format as well for JavaOne. Early readers can provide feedback and steer the direction of the content.
At Luminis DevCon we did a talk on Java 9 which was well-attended and well-received. Since then we've presented at several other conferences, and every time it's clear that people are eager to learn about Java 9. As Luminis, we can show thought-leadership at moments like these. To solidify this, we are organising two brain upgrades around Java 9 in the fall: https://academy.luminis.eu/en/event/brain-upgrade-java-9-modularity-in-action/. Let's get the word out!
Interested in more? There's an article about Java 9 Modularity coming up in the next Conversing Worlds. Also, we created a Twitter account if you want to follow along: @javamodularity (help us break the first 100 followers and spread the news :).
Then, something more personal. About two weeks ago I participated in a 10k run in my hometown. Even though I'm not an avid runner, I was in good shape and confident that I could finish it (even with a passable time). I did not, however, take into account the hot conditions of that day. Long story short, I ended up being driven in an ambulance to the hospital. Overheated and severely dehydrated, my body just gave up just before the finish. Fortunately, bringing down my temperature and pumping about two liters of fluids with electrolytes into my body through an IV drip improved things. It was a genuinely frightening experience and could have easily turned into a much worse situation. So I'm extremely thankful things worked out the way they did. It sounds very cliche, but it really puts things in perspective again.
Which brings me to the music of this Soundbyte. Last time, I promised a more laid back pick. That perfectly fits my current state of mind, so there's that. A lovely interpretation of the Beatles' Blackbird by Sara Gazarek should be laidback enough, I believe. Enjoy!


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Thursday announced it will make revisions to several sections of its proposed rule governing the "Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption," including the water quality standards and testing provisions. "I am encouraged by the news today from the FDA that they will be making changes to the proposed water quality standards and testing provisions included in their draft food safety regulations, which in their current form are unworkable, unnecessary, and could force Central Washington growers out of business" said Hastings. "I hope that these changes will take into account the level of risk and the growing conditions of different types of crops. While I am reserving judgment until I see their new proposal, I'm pleased that the FDA has officially committed to allowing more input from the public on any new changes they propose." In November, Hastings sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg expressing concern over these draft regulations. Earlier in November, Hastings and Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) met with FDA officials, where Deputy Commissioner Mike Taylor committed to address growers' concerns about the proposed regulations and to provide additional opportunity for farmers to give input prior to the rule being finalized.
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