LE GROUPE LYCEUM ADVISORY BOARD
Proposed First Advisory Board Members:
· Dr. Kenneth E. Keirstead, Chairman and Director of The Lyceum Group
Honorary Consul for the Republic of Mali in Canada
Member of the Rotary Club of Grand Manan Island
CEO and Board member, BioProspecting NB Inc
Board member, IntelliPharmaCeutics
Chairman of the Board, Ukamba School of Business, Kenya
541 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, E3B 1M1
Phone: (506) 455-4110
Email: kkeirstead@lyceumresearch.com
Dr. Keirstead is of South African origin and a graduate of the Pathology Institute in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He also graduated from two United States advanced education institutions in executive management (College of William and Mary, and Columbia University). After over three decades of senior research and management positions with multinational companies he specialized in public health care policy followed by human resource development in Africa. He is widely traveled and a frequent speaker and lecturer on human infrastructure building in the developing world. His work now focuses on Mali and Guinea in West Africa where he plays a key role in the administration of rural programs in health care and education.
· Bishop Albert David G. Gomez, Bishop of the Anglican Church in Guinea
B.P. 1187, Conakry, Guinea
Phone: 224.45.13.23
Fax:
Email: galbertdgomez@yahoo.fr
Bishop Gomez was born in Labé where he did his primary education before moving to Conakry. In 1969 he graduated from the Institut Polytechnique Gamal Abdel Nasser with distinction, earning a Diploma in Civil Engineering. He served his country from then until 1995 in various technical capacities, ending up as the Chief of Cabinet for the Ministry of Transport. He departed from this position at his request to study theology in England, and was subsequently appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Guinea on September 10, 2000. His dedicated leadership has seen the advance of the Anglican work in Guinea, and Bishop Gomez has played a key role in inter-faith activities to respect the citizens of Guinea and thus promote stability and cooperation. He is an advocate of inclusiveness and human resource development. In January 2006 Bishop Gomez was appointed Dean of the Anglican Church for the Province of West Africa.
Dr. Hans Stegmann Keirstead, Associate Professor
Reeve-Irvine Research Center
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
2111 Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility
School of Medicine
University of California at Irvine
2 Mendel Court, University Hills, Irvine, California, 92617-4039
Phone: (949) 824-6213
Fax: (as above)
Email: hansk(at)uci.edu
Dr. Hans S. Keirstead is an Associate Professor at the Reeve-Irvine Research Center, at the University of California at Irvine. The Canadian-born neuroscientist received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His PhD thesis concerned the invention of a novel method for regenerating damaged spinal cords, and formed the basis of several worldwide patents as well as the formation of a company in 1999 to bring this treatment towards clinical trials. This work constituted the first demonstration of functional regeneration of the injured adult spinal cord, and for his achievements he received the Cameron Award for the outstanding PhD thesis in Canada. Dr. Keirstead then moved to Cambridge, England, where he conducted four years of post-doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge furthering his studies of spinal cord injury and beginning studies of multiple sclerosis. He was awarded Canadian and British Fellowships to support this work. He received the distinct honor of election to two senior academic posts; Fellow of the Governing Body of Downing College, and Senate Member of the University of Cambridge, and was the youngest member to be elected to these positions. In 2000, Dr. Keirstead became an Assistant professor in the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at the University of California in Irvine. The Reeve-Irvine Research Center, founded by the late Christopher Reeve and philanthropist Joan Irvine, is a leading center for spinal cord injury research. Dr. Keirstead directs a large team investigating the cellular biology and treatment of spinal cord trauma, research that also has significance for multiple sclerosis and other diseases of the nervous system. In order to bring his treatments to clinical trials, he has founded or partnered with biotechnology companies to fund and conduct pre-clinical and clinical developments. Dr. Keirstead was recently awarded the Distinguished Assistant Professor of UCI Award, the UCI Academic Senate’s highest honor, and was therefore promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. In 2005, he was awarded the ICI Innovative Award for innovative research leading to corporate and clinical development.
· El Hadj Ahmadou Tidjane Traore, Professor of African and French Literature
Conakry, Guinea
Phone: 224.59.33.18 or 224.42.23.22
Fax:
Email: ahtraore@yahoo.fr
El Hadj Traore was born in Dalaba in Guinea. He graduated with his master’s degree in Modern Literature from the University of Dakar in Senegal and then studied in France at the Université de Grenoble and the Université de Montpellier. He served as the secretary general of the National Islamic League for Guinea before postings as the Guinean Ambassador to Italy and then Senegal. He has been awarded citations and distinctions in Senegal, France and Egypt. The El Hadj is currently a professor of African and French Literature at the “Institut Supérieur des Sciences de l’Education de Guinée” in Conakry.
· Dr. Lise Caron, Dean of Forestry
Université de Moncton
165 boul. Hébert
Edmundston, N.-B., Canada E3V 2S8
Phone: (506) 737-5242
Fax: (506) 737-5373
Email: lcaron@umce.ca
Dr. Caron is a Canadian and has been the Dean of the Faculty of Forestry at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick since 1998. Since her PhD in animal ecology at the Université de Sherbrooke in 1986, she has accumulated over 20 years of university experience in teaching, research, and management. She participates in the development of two university cirricula - one at the bachelor level, and the other at the master's degree level. Over 20 undergraduate and graduate theses have been under her supervision. She has presented over 20 scientific communications, and at more than 40 conferences on different themes related to the environment, forestry, and wildlife. She has been a member, or a chair, of more than 50 community committees inside or without the university.
For her contribution in solving environmental issues, she received the New Brunswick Day Merit Award in Environment in 1993. She has participated in eight international missions - one of them being to Guinea in March 2006 where she had the opportunity to spend some time at N'Zérékoré and UDECOM.
Paul Cosulich is a British Columbia, Canada based business owner. Raised in a commercial family in the tug boat business, he now supports entrepreneurial initiatives in a number of industries and locations.
As a past resident and self avowed "friend of Grand Manan Island" Paul was introduced to the Loos Islands twinning initiative in its infancy. In cooperation with the Rotary Club of Grand Manan Island, Paul provided seed funding to start the initiative, and accompanied Ken Keirstead on one of his early forays to Guinea and the Loos Islands.
Paul's keen interest in encouraging people to realize their passions are his motivation to assist Ken in the development of The Lyceum Group.
Mr. Paul Cosulich
Vancouver, British Columbia
Mr. Paul Gunn
Moncton, New Brunswick