Samuel Timpo

Samuel Edudzi Timpo is a Principal Programme Officer with the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD). He is based at the Centre of Excellence for Rural Resources and Food Systems in Dakar, Senegal. He is responsible for the socio-economic aspects of AUDA-NEPAD’s flagship programme for biosafety, the African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE), which supports AU member states in building functional biosafety regulatory frameworks. He has been involved in biosafety capacity building efforts in Africa for over a decade and is the focal person in AUDA-NEPAD on matters of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Protocols (the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing of genetic resources). Prior to this, Samuel worked as a socio-economist with the Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission during which period he coordinated biosafety capacity development activities in Ghana. He has a Master of Philosophy degree in agricultural economics from the University of Ghana, Legon. Samuel also previously taught courses in entrepreneurship; micro-enterprise development and management; agricultural economics; and agricultural finance and marketing at the University of Ghana, the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, and the School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences.