Key-note speakers

Prof. Dr. Azizan Baharuddin
Received her BSc. (Hons) Biology, University of Tasmania, Australia in 1978, MSc. (University College London) and PhD in Philosophy of Science, University of Lancaster, U.K. She specializes (teaching and research) in several areas such as environmental and bioethics, science, religion and development; interfaith and intercivilisational dialogue. She has published widely in all these areas (13 books & monographs and more than 100 articles). She is also active in several NGOs that are connected with development as well as being a member of various advisory and consultative committees for ministries such as Unity & National Integration, Ministry of youth and Sports, Ministry of Women’s and Social Development. Besides annually giving papers at various conferences locally and abroad, she is also invited regularly to give inputs through the local media regarding issues that are of relevance and connected to her areas of specialization. Currently she is a professor at the Department of Science & Technology Studies as well as Director at the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya.

Examples of her publications are:
Youth, Values and Development (1998), Kobena, KL
Science and Belief: Discourses on New Perceptions (1997) IKD, KL
Islam and Dialogue of Civilisations (2006)
Science & Religion: An Islamic Perspective (2007)
Rediscovering of Religion in Sharon Harper, The Lab, Temple and the Market: Intersection of Science, Religion and Development, IDRC, Ottawa (2000)
Islam and Ecology: a Bestowed Trust; co-edited with Richard Foltz and Azim Najim, University of Harvard Press (2003)
“Dialogue of Civilisations and the Construction of Peace”, CCD, University of Malaya (2007).

Prof. Dr. David Millar
APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, UDS. 2005 –
Visiting Professor. Centre for Development Studies. University of Cape Coast. 2006.
External Examiner. Department of Agriculture Extension. University of Ghanna. Legon.  2006.
Council Member, University for Development Studies Council. 2007-
Acting for the Vice-Chancellor, University for Development Studies. 2007
Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor, University for Development Studies. 2007
   
SCHOOLS/UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED
University of Ghana, Legon, 1976 – 1979.
Wageningen Agric. University, Holland, 1990 – 1992.
Wageningen Agric. University, Holland, 1992 – 1996.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Post-Graduate Certificate; Rural Extension (ICRE), International Agricultural Centre, The Netherlands (1981).
Post-Graduate Certificate; Farming Systems Research (ICRA), International Agricultural
Centre, The Netherlands (1983).
M.Sc. (Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems), Wageningen Agricultural
University, the Netherlands, September 1992.
Ph.D. (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands, May 1996.
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (2005).

FELLOWSHIP, AWARDS AND PRIZE
University of Ghana, Legon Award for Distinctive academic contribution – Legon Hall 1977
Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands, – Distinction (Cum Lauda) in the MSc programme.

MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES
Member, Indigenous Knowledge Networks. (IKN)
International Management Committee Member, COMPAS of ETC Foundation of The Netherlands.
Member, Association for Organic Farming. (AOF)
Member of the Advisory Board of TREE AID, Burkina Fasso.
Member of the Advisory Board of  CARE International, Ghana.
Member of PhD External Examiner’s Board, Ghandigram University, India.

Prof. Dr. Wil Derkse
Wil Derkse (1952) studied chemistry and philosophy at Nijmegen University. He taught chemistry at the Jeroen Bosch College in ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands side by side with his later Ph.D supervisor, the classicist Cornelis Verhoeven.  From 1987 to 2001 he headed the Radboud Foundation in Nijmegen as its scientific director. In 1993 he defended his Ph.D thesis titled On Simplicity and Elegance. An Essay in Intellectual History at the University of Amsterdam. Shortly afterwards he was appointed at the Technical University of Eindhoven as a professor in Philosophy on behalf of the Radboud Foundation. Since 2001 he holds a professorate in Science, Society and Life Philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In addition he is the Director of the Soeterbeeck Programma, an outreach programme to society on the same theme.

Recent publications: In Quest of Humanity in a Globalising World (red. and contribution), Leende 2000; Een levensregel voor beginners. Benedictijnse spiritualiteit voor het dagelijks leven (A Life Rule for beginners, Benedictine spirituality in daily life), Tielt 2000; De universiteit als dienstbare gemeenschap (The university as a service-oriented community) Nijmegen 2002.