Florence Wambugu

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Florence Muringi Wambugu (born August 23, 1953 ) is a Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist . She was best known for her advocacy of using biotechnology to increase food production in Africa.

education

Wambugu was the first woman in Kenya to attend the University of Nairobi in 1975 . Three years later she received a Bachelor of Science degree in botany and zoology from the same university . She received her Master of Science degree in Pathology in 1984 from North Dakota State University in Fargo , North Dakota , and her Ph.D. from the University of Bath, England in 1991.

Professional background

Dr. Wambugu is the founder of the non-profit Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBFI), which she has been managing director since 2002. AHBFI has offices in Nairobi , Johannesburg and Washington, DC

Before she founded AHBFI, Dr. Wambugu Director of the African Region of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), whose Afri Center in Nairobi she led. From 1978 to 1991 she worked as the chief pathologist and coordinator of plant biotechnology research at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI). After working at KARI, she did a postdoctoral stay at Monsanto from 1991 to 1994 .

She has published over 100 articles and is involved in a number of others.

Awards

Dr. Wambugu was named Scientist of the Year 1981 by IITA ( International Institute of Tropical Agriculture , Nigeria); In 1989 she received KARI's Crop Science Award for Outstanding Scientist of the Year and CIP ’s ( International Potato Center ) Regional Research Award; In 1990 she received the Farmers Support Award from the Pyrethrum Marketing Board of Kenya; In 1991 she was recognized as an exemplary doctoral student jointly by the Virology Division of Horticultural Research International in England and KARI; Monsanto presented her with an award for outstanding performance in both 1992 and 1993.

In 2000, Dr. Wambugu took first place in KARI's Global Development Network Awards ; she received the World Bank Global Development Network Award in 2000 for the successful introduction of tissue culture bananas to Kenya; she received the American Biographical Institute's Woman of the Year award in 2002–03. One of the last awards is the Dr. Wambugu Yara Prize awarded by the Yara Foundation in Norway in 2008 for her significant contribution to fighting hunger and poverty in Africa.

Personal

Florence Wambugu is a single mother of three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Florence_Wambugu
  2. ↑ a b c http://www.answers.com/topic/florence-wambugu
  3. ↑ http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Africa_Harvest_Biotechnology_Foundation_International
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personal data
SURNAME Wambugu, Florence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wambugu, Florence Muringi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1953