David W Strangway, David W Strangway, PhD, FRSC, OCPhD, FRSC, OC

Founder, Quest University Canada Founder, Quest University Canada

Resident of Bie, Angola from 1934 to 1952 Parents created and ran hospital in Angola from

1927 to 1967

Umbundu name - Cikomo

MY LIFE IN ANGOLA

Degrees from University of Toronto in geophysics

Geophysical Exploration and mapping for mining companies for several years across North America

Faculty member - University of Colorado, MIT, University of Toronto

Chief Geophysicist - NASA for Apollo lunar missions

President - University of Toronto and University of British Columbia President - Canada Foundation for Innovation

Founder - Quest University Canada

Author - 170 research papers on earth and planetary science

MY EXPERIENCE IN UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT, AND THE MINING INDUSTRY

ANGOLA AN OIL AND GAS RICH NATION 1

Offshore Concessions ranging from near shore to deep and to ultra-deep fields (9% of output goes to Canada)

Liquefied Natural Gas potential very high

ANGOLA AN OIL AND GAS RICH NATION 2

Africa and South America split apart forming oil and gas rich basins 80-100 million years ago

Cross section of Africa and South America offshore basins when placed together showing pre salt deposits

ANGOLAAN OIL AND GAS RICH NATION 3

Kwanza Basin and Campos Basin deposits

ANGOLA A DIAMOND RICH NATION

Angola is rich in source kimberlites and alluvial deposits, produces 13% of world’s diamonds by values

Great mineral potential; Minister Queiroz predicts that mining may exceed oil sector

National Geological plan to include geophysical mapping of the country

Potential for iron ore, copper, platinum group metals, rare earths and others

Angola has 26% of Africa’s water resources and major hydropower potential

Fishing resources driven by the Benguela current

Angola has significant forest resources and rich agricultural opportunities

ANGOLA A MINING AND RESOURCE NATION

ANGOLA A YOUNG

NATION

Working age population to 2050

Empower young people to capture the demographic

dividend (AfDB)

Angola Gross Domestic Product is $120 billion per year

today

Gross Domestic Product projected in Angola Vision 2025 to grow to $240 billion per year at growth rate of 7%/yr.

World Bank says Angola well on the way to becoming a medium-income country

Target 2025- GDP per person $13,000/yr.

Reduce poverty by 75%

Create 8.5 million jobs

ANGOLA PROJECTIONS

Climate Change for the planet

Human Wellbeing and Development for people

Societal Transformation – billion richest account for 70% of consumption

Billion poorest account for 1% of natural resource use World Economic Forum – Severe income disparity is a

greater disruptive risk than climate change

Emissions, standards of living, and global ecological limits are closely interlinked

GRAND CHALLENGES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

HDI based on:

a. long and healthy life - life expectancy is 51.5 b. access to knowledge – mean years of schooling – 4.7 - expected years of schooling –

10.2 c. gross national product - $6200

Angola is 148 out of 187 countries with a value of .508 - potential with reduced inequality

HDI corrected for income inequality (IHDI) – reduces HDI to .285 – actual

ANGOLA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (HDI)

Energy Food

Housing Education

Health Employment

Good governance

GRAND CHALLENGES POVERTY REDUCTION/PEOPLE NEED ACCESS TO SERVICES

Transformation needed in linked areas of environment,

technology and society

Requirements for Sub Saharan Africa Transformation an educated populace training of professionals centers of high skills and excellence in research

Need to increase number of PhDs granted by African universities

Need to provide opportunities for PhDs to return or stay in Africa

20,000 professionals leave Africa every year

“The terms and conditions of academic work in African universities must be sufficiently attractive to retain top talent” Phillip Altbach

GRAND CHALLENGES Transformation - Environment, Technology

and Society

Developed World 2.0 – 4.0 African Union objective for each country in Africa 1.0 In Africa, only South Africa is close to 1.0 Sub Saharan Africa, without south Africa 0.3

GROSS EXPENDITURES ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GERD/GDP)

DEVELOPED WORLD COUNTRIES WITH RESEARCH CHAIRS TO STRENGTHEN CENTERS

OF EXCELLENCE

Canada, Finland, Australia, Portugal, and several others including Saudi Arabia

SOUTH AFRICA Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHI)

South Africa has created over 160 funded chairs – program modeled on Canada Research Chairs

Delivering excellent results of research and training Masters and PhDs Chair Holders attract more competitive research funds internationally than they are

provided

TANZANIA Government has created the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and

Technology – focused only on Masters and PhDs. Creating a program of research chairs

BOTSWANA “Diamonds Are Not Forever” strategy Creating new Botswana University of Science and Technology – now open Establishment of Botswana Innovation Hub and a chairs program

MALAWI New University of Science and Technology in 2014

ZIMBABWE Three new regional universities

EXAMPLES OF SUB SAHARAN AFRICA ACTIONS - 1

KENYA creating silicon savannah to anchor innovation hub establish program of research chairs – first two now in

place EAST AFRICA

Aga Khan Foundation establishing modern hospitals and the Aga Khan University

RWANDA established campus of Carnegie Mellon University as the

focus of an innovation hub on ICT public universities put under one management to help

build graduate and research strength BURKINA FASO

established major research campus on Environment and Water (2IE) with emphasis on graduate and research work

NIGERIA new Nelson Mandela University of Science and

Technology in Abuja

EXAMPLES OF SUB SAHARAN AFRICA ACTIONS – 2

AFRICAN UNION – Pan African University with 4 campuses (soon 5)

Key Element of African Development Bank ten year strategy 2013-2023

Graduate and research universities:

Ibadan University, Nigeria – Institute of life sciences and earth sciences ( including health and agriculture)

Yaounde University 11, Cameroon, Institute of governance, humanities and social sciences

Jomo Kenyatta University, Kenya, Institute of basic sciences, technology and innovation

Aboubekr Belkaid University, Tiemen, Algeria, Institute of water and energy sciences (including climate change) to open in 2014

Southern Africa – Institute of Space and Satellite Sciences (to be established)

EXAMPLES OF SUB SAHARAN AFRICA ACTIONS – 3

The World Academy of Science (the Developing World) (previously

the Third World Academy of Science)

Many African countries have academies of science

African Academy of Science

Network of African Science Academies

IAP – The global network of science academies

African Observatory of Science and Technology and Innovation (AOSTI) - African Union

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

High level panel on Science, Technology and Innovation (2014-

2024) – report to be released soon – includes the idea of chairs

African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology (AMCOST)

Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union (COMEDAF)

Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)

Association of African Universities

“The panel has recommended that that attention be given to advanced education and R and D facilities on the continent” AUC Commission

PAN AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONS

Angola stands on the threshold of becoming a developed country

over the next 20 years

Angola has many issues to deal with on this journey

It has the resources to address the needs of its people

It has the resources that will permit it to develop a diversified economy

It can become the country that my father dreamed of as he gave his whole life to the development of the Angolan people

He did this through access to better medicine, better public health, better education, better farming, better forestry, increased life expectancy.

FINAL REFLECTIONS

Many thanks for the opportunity to reflect on my home country’s

future.