THE ROLE OF THE SECURITY SECTOR IN ADVANCING BETTER INTEGRATED BORDER GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA May 25, 2023

THE ROLE OF THE SECURITY SECTOR IN ADVANCING BETTER INTEGRATED BORDER GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA May 25, 2023 BIOGRAPHIES PANELISTS (In alphabetical order) Col (ret.) Abdoul Ndiaye is the former Director of Information and Relations of the Armies of Senegal. [...] Having entered military service in 1986, Colonel Ndiaye held several positions in the Senegalese army, including operational artillery functions (Head of Corps of the Artillery Battalion); functions in the General Staff (Deputy Coordination Defense-General Studies to the Chief of the General Staff of the President of the Republic, Permanent Secretary of the National Commission for Border Managemen. [...] Dr Wafula Okumu is the founding Director of The Border Institute, and honorary fellow at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. [...] Catherine Lena Kelly is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Justice and Rule of Law at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. [...] Kelly was an Advisor in the Research, Evaluation, and Learning Division at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, where her work on judicial training and grassroots legal empowerment took her to Burundi, CAR, DRC, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Republic of Congo, and Rwanda to work with a range of national and local judicial officials, paralegals, and civil society.