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Local Organising Committee

The conference will be planned and organised by three committees:

the scientific committee consisting of scientists from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Southern and Northern America with international reputations in their respective fields of research; and
the local organising committee,
with the assistance of an African Research Advisory Panel.

Local Organising Committee, University of Zambia ( UNZA )
Dept of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences Prof Robert Serpell (Committee Chair) - Some of you met him and/or his colleagues, Sidney Mwaba, Jackie Jere-Folotiya, and Bestern Kaani, at the Wuerzburg conference	Dr Anitha Menon (PCO Liaison)
Mrs Jacqueline Jere-Folotiya (Secretary) ................................................................................................. Ms Florence Chamvu	Ms Gertrude Kasuba Mwape ............................................................................................................ Mr Francis Sichimba ............................................................................................................... Ms Tamara Chansa-Kabali .............................................................................................................. Mr Haatembo Mooya
Dept of Educational Psychology, Sociology & Special Education, School of Education
Mr Kalima Kalima (AWAITING PHOTO)	Dr Sophie Kasonde-Ng'andu
Ms Beatrice Matafwali	Mr Bestern Kaani  (Treasurer)
DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS & CHILD HEALTH - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Dr Mary Shilalukey-Ngoma (Committee Vice-Chair)	Dr Somwe wa Somwe

The proposal submitted by the UNZA Local Organizing Committee (L.O.C.) in 2007 was adopted in February 2008 by the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD). The proposal included the following:

In order to make the congress truly representative of the diversity of the African continent, and to ensure adequate representation of the priority scientific concerns and professional activities of behavioral science in the various nations of Africa, a regional consortium of leading developmental scientists has been formed to act as an advisory panel for the scientific committee. It includes representatives from the following six institutions, which have hosted the African regional workshops of the Society since 1992:

University of Yaounde, Cameroon (1992, 2003)

University of Zambia (1996)

University of Namibia (1998)

Makerere University, Uganda (2000)

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (2006),

and is known as the African Research Advisory Panel.

Drawing on volunteers from these three committees, a Proposal Review Panel has been established for evaluating proposals submitted for inclusion in the scientific programme of the congress. Its membership is as follows:        

Esther Akinsola, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Toni Antonucci, University of Michigan, USA

Margarita Azmitia, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Peter Baguma, University of Makerere, Uganda       

Andy Dawes, University of Cape Town, South Africa            

Serdar Degirmencioglu, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey

Silvia Koller, Universidad Federal Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Joan Miller, University, New School for Social Research , New York,USA

Elias Mpofu University of Sydney, Australia

Bame Nsamenang, University of Yaounde, Cameroon          

Anne Petersen , Stanford University, CA, USA

Arnold Sameroff, University of Michigan, USA

Wolfgang Schneider, University of Wuerzburg, Germany                 

Robert Serpell, University of Zambia (Review Panel Coordinator)

Leickness Simbayi, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa                        

Marcel van Aken, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Karina Weichold, University of Jena, Germany