Management


AIPA has a Board of Directors whose main responsibility is to ensure that AIPA’s programme is in line with the objectives of its founders. The Board examines and approves annual financial statements. It is managed on a day-to-day basis by Ms Lula Gebreyesus, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Institute.

Prof. Philip Black is the Research Director and Prof. Jan Groenewald, Agricultural Policy Research Director. The research programme is being executed by a research team comprising of a small permanent core team and some 35 consultants and advisors mainly from major South African universities and selected African and overseas institutions. AIPA has been successful in attracting many prominent researchers