Dr Aderiana Mbandi is a chemical engineer with 16 years of experience in manufacturing, hazardous chemicals and waste, climate change, mobility and air pollution. She supervises and teaches at the South Eastern Kenya University, as well as working for UNEP, African Governments and sits on various scientific advisory groups including the African Group of Atmospheric Sciences (ANGA). She also works with the UN high Level Climate Champions on Open Waste Burning in Africa.

N’Datchoh E. TOURE is a researcher at the Laboratoire des Sciences de la Matière, de l'Environnement et de l'Énergie Solaire (LASMES) of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB)  in Côte d’Ivoire. She completed her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in Nigeria. Her Ph.D.

Owen Cooper received his undergraduate degree from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and his Master’s and PhD from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia.  Since 2001 Owen has supported the mission of the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory through his work as a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder, and now as a federal Research Physical Scientist.  With the goal of conducting scientific research t

He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has trained as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT). He has completed his MTech in Energy Systems Engineering from IIT-Bombay and his BE in Automobile Engineering from the University of Mumbai.