African Universities Panel Particiant
Dr. N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, Cornell University
N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, with a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago, is a Professor of African and Diaspora education, comparative and international education, African history, and the study of gender in the Africana Studies at Cornell University. Following years of experience in Africa, she joined Cornell in 1991 as a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and Ford Foundation/Africana Studies Fellow. Her research interests include higher education; information and communication technologies; educational innovations; human resource development; education finance; equity; gender; African colonial history.
In 2006, she was elected as a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. In 1996—97 she served as Director of the Cornell Program on Gender and Global Change (GGC). She is also a member of four other Cornell graduate fields: Education; International Development; International Agriculture and Rural Development; and the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA) and affiliate of other higher education institutions.
She has served as a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy (CDP) from 2001 to 2006, the Higher Education Scientific Committee for the Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) since 2004, and the Council of Scholars of the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa since 2008. Additionally, she has served as senior evaluator, adviser, policy analyst, and resource person for many institutions including sub-units of the United Nations and African institutions. She has published numerous books, journal articles, book chapters and produced major reports.