Leah McMillan Polonenko Editor

Hany Gamil Besada is the Senior Research/Program Advisor and Senior Research Coordinator of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, United Nations Development Programme, and Senior Research Fellow, China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture, China Agriculture University He is also Non-resident Senior Research Fellow with the UN University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa; Senior Fellow, Columbia Centre on Sustainable Investment; Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, and Senior Fellow with the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. M. Evren Tok is the program coordinator of the Islam and Global Affairs Program and an Associate Professor for College at the Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Tok is the Lead Project Investigator for a research grant funded by Qatar National Research Fund on entrepreneurship education and co-lead investigator for a research project on the Oatari perspective on natural resource governance in Africa. Leah McMillan Polonenko is a Proiect Evaluator and Applied Researcher, specializing in international development, social policy, and experiential learning. She has worked in higher education in Canada and the United Arab Emirates, and served as an evaluation consultant and researcher for a variety of development projects, with regional expertise in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently Program Coordinator, International Development Studies in the Centre of Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough.