Prof. Cheikh Mbow

Professor Cheikh Mbow is the Director of Future Africa at the University of Pretoria. Cheikh Mbow served as the Executive Director of START-International in Washington DC and Lead Scientist on Climate Change at the World Agroforestry Center in Kenya. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Michigan State University’s Department of Forestry. He led several international research programs such the Chapter 5of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) and has been a Lead Author for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) of IPCC-AR5. Mbow is now a Coordinating Lead Author for the Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land and lead author of IPCC AR6 on AFOLU. He served in many Scientific Committees such as the Global Land Program (2005-2011), the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program-IGBP from 2012-2014, Future Earth (2013-2015). Prof Mbow worked on drivers of land resources dynamics in various human-ecological contexts. He focused on climate impacts and land-based mitigation pathways, food security, land resource opportunities in semi-arid ecosystems. He is working currently on the development of transdisciplinary approaches to address Africa’s development challenges by establishing frameworks for thriving sustainability science to support need transformation in the continent.