Dr Marcel Nwalozie
Member, Executive Management Committee
Dr Marcel Nwalozie is the Chief of Staff of AfricaRice and manages the center’s Board of Trustees’ Secretariat. He also coordinates AfricaRice’s institutional performance monitoring, risk management, knowledge management and the strategic policy initiatives of the Director General’s Office.
Dr Nwalozie’s professional life – first in administration and technical fields at the University of Port Harcourt, and thereafter as a senior academic at the Universities of Abia State, and Imo State, Nigeria; as a senior research scientist at the Senegal-based Regional Center for the Study of Crop Adaption to Drought (CERAAS); and in high-level management as the pioneer Director of Programs of the West & Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD), and as the Regional Director of NEPAD Agency, West Africa – has been focused on systematic strengthening of national, regional and international agricultural research systems through productive inter-institutional and strategic partnerships, co-ordination and innovative management of research cooperation, with a view to contributing to knowledge-based solutions geared toward sustainable enhancement of livelihoods in developing countries.
He earned a master’s in business administration (MBA) degree in Marketing – Research Programs from the University of Liverpool (2008) and a PhD in Crop Physiology from the University of Port Harcourt (1988). He has widely published in peer-reviewed journals.
