Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015. Business leader and the first female president of the Tunisian employers' organizations
The Honorary committee
The Honorary Committee is composed of a maximum of 9 members :
MD, PhD, Specialist in Infectious diseases and Bacteriology-Virology. Minister of State to the President of the Republic of Senegal. She chairs the National Committee of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (CN-ITIE)
MD, PhD. University Professor at the University of Connecticut. Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. Chief Executive Officer of The Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering
Professor Daouda Ndiaye
Senegal
Head of the Department of Parasitology at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (Senegal), Special Advisor to Harvard University in Boston (USA)
Physician, Scientist and Philanthropist. Former CEO, Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Professor Mary Teuw Niane
Senegal
Mathematician. Professor of exceptional class. President of the Board of Directors of the Société des Pétroles du Sénégal (Petrosen) {National oil company}. Former Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation of Senegal
Mr Bruno Cohen
France
President of The Galien Foundation. Founder of the Jerusalem Ethics Forum
Professor Cheikh Mbow
Senegal
Associate Professor of Remote Sensing - GIS and Climate Change. Director of Future Africa (University of Pretoria/South Africa)