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INCLUDE is a platform of African and Dutch professionals comprising platform members, a steering group, and a secretariat.

Our platform members bring with them their personal expertise from the field of sustainable and inclusive international development. The Steering Group governs the activities of the platform and decides on its research agenda based on contributions by the platform members. The Secretariat drives and coordinates the platform and is run as a virtual consortium of the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) in Leiden, and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in Nairobi. Our knowledge managers make evidence accessible and available for use to policymakers and practitioners for policymaking and implementation.

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Marleen Dekker Director, African Studies Centre Leiden

Dzodzi Tsikata Director, Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana

Fatoumata Lamarana Diallo Senior Economist, West African Monetary Agency (WAMA)

Maggie Kigozi Consultant, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Pauline Ngimwa Acting Executive Director, Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR)

Nicky Pouw Researcher at the Governance and Inclusive Development (GID) | University of Amsterdam

Maty Konte Economist, United Nations University Maastricht (UNU-MERIT)

Désiré Assogbavi Director, ONE’s Francophone Africa

Sonia Onovughakpo (Odije) Fajusigbe Economic, Trade and Investment Policy Officer, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Lagos

Moussa Toure Investment Promotion Agency of Mali

Nadia Owusu Advocate for Youth Empowerment and Sustainable Development

Lemma Senbet The William E. Mayer Chair Professor Finance, University of Maryland: Immediate Past Executive Director of AERC

Edward Brown Director of Policy Advisory Service, African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)

Rens Twijnstra Senior Advisor Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Philomena Apiko Policy Officer in the Economic recovery and transformation and the African economic integration teams

Adriano Nuvunga Director, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)

Assefa Admassie Lecturer, Department of Economics Addis Abeba University

Rolph van der Hoeven Emeritus Professor of Employment and Development Economics, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) & UN Economic and Social Council member