Science and Technology in Nigeria's Development: The Challenge of National Policies, Linkages, Coherence and Consistency

About

A. Babatunde Thomas is Presidential Adviser on Human Resources, Science and Technology, Office of the President, Abuja, NIGERIA. Professor Thomas received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 1972, in Economic Development and Technological Change, Science & Technology Policy and Econometrics/Statistics. He is the author of three books, several monographs, numerous articles in professional journals and several conference papers and fully bilingual in English and French. He has taught in Nigerian and American Universities for over three decades and was a tenured professor before taking up the post of Executive Director of the African Regional Center for Technology, a continental institution established by African Heads of State and Government, where he directed for seven years, research on post-harvest food technology and new and renewable energy technologies. He later joined the United Nations and served in New York, Tanzania, Kenya and recently in Uganda, where he was the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Resident Coordinator for Operational Activities from 1994 to 1999. Before going to Nigeria, he was Special Adviser/Coordinator of the United Nations System-Wide Special Initiative on Africa from 1999 to 2000.