Prof. Alex Asase – Centre for Plant Medicine Research (Ghana)
Prof. Alex Asase holds a PhD in Botany from the University of Ghana, and has research interest in plant medicine, ethnobotany and biodiversity science. He is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Plant Medicine Research in Ghana, and Professor at the Department of Plant and Environment Science, University of Ghana. Prof. Asase has served on various national and international committees and boards. He is currently a board member of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and the Traditional Medicine Practice Council (TMPC) in Ghana. Prof Asase has published extensively, and he is on the editorial board of several journals.
Pulchérie Bissiengou – National Herbarium (Gabon)
Pulcherie Bissiengou attended the Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku, where she followed the three-year BSc program for biology and chemistry. During the last year of the BSc program, she undertook a hands-on field course called “Bio-Traverse”, where she got the opportunity to learn about Gabon’s unique biodiversity through travel from the South-East to the North of Gabon in order to study its different types of ecosystems. In 2001, she entered a Master Degree course, at Stellenbosch University and she obtained her Master of Science degree in 2005. Since 2006, she has worked at the National Herbarium of Gabon as a scientific staff member and has been involved in the production of the “Flore du Gabon” series as author and member of the editorial team. In August 2008, she obtained a sandwich grant from Wageningen University allowing her to start her PhD project at the National Herbarium Nederland – Wageningen branch on the systematics of Ochnaceae. She obtained her PhD degree in 2014. Currently, she is the head of the National Herbarium Laboratory department and has coordinated many projects.
Marc Sosef – Meise Botanical Gardens (Belgium)
Marc Sosef (1960–) attended his first AETFAT Congress in Malawi, in 1991. He coordinates the production of the series Flore du Gabon and Flore d’Afrique central (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi). His taxonomic interest is mostly in begonia’s and grasses. He is also intrigued by the rain forest refuge theory, and involved in Species Distribution Modelling and IUCN Red Listing. He represents Meise Botanic Garden as a member of the World Flora Online consortium and has a particular interest in e-Flora’s and digitizing herbarium specimens, in the history of botanical research and in botanical nomenclature and classification.