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Our Experts/Trainers

Our experts combine 70+ years of service and cover a wide range of specializations from grant writing and administration to responsible conduct of research, program evaluation and restructring to research enterprise overhauling, and educational leadership to capacity building.

Founder-led expertise

Meet the people behind AFRECAP.

Our four co-founders bring expertise in grant administration, research integrity, educational leadership, and research infrastructure.

Portrait of Birhanu Eshete
Co-founder

Birhanu Eshete

Co-Founder and Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Michigan, Dearborn

A Computer Scientist with 10+ years of experience in research grant writing and management, academic leadership, and technology-driven consulting.

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Portrait of Masresha Fetene
Co-founder

Masresha Fetene

Co-Founder and Professor, Plant Ecophysiology, Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, Addis Ababa University.

Former Dean of Graduate Studies and VP for Research at Addis Ababa University. Led major institutional expansions and mobilized over $150M in research and capacity funding.

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Portrait of Nasser Bogale
Co-founder

Nasser Bogale

Co-Founder and Professor of Mathematics and Educational Leadership, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology

U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Professor of Educational Leadership. Expert in curriculum design, grant management, and institutional leadership. Area Focus: Leadership development, quantitative training, curriculum transformation.

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Portrait of Solomon Bililign
Co-founder

Solomon Bililign

Co-Founder and Professor of Physics, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

Professor of Physics and Applied Sciences has over 30 years experience in grant writing (wrote over 150 proposals and received over $25 million in funding) leading and forming and sustaining large interdisciplinary and international research teams, curriculum and program development and mentoring.

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