Victor Konde is a Scientific Affairs Officer with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). He holds a PhD in Biochemistry and is a Post-Doctoral alumnus of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the founder of the African Technology Development Forum (ATDF, Geneva/Switzerland), the ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub (Lusaka, Zambia) and the Zambian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science, a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium (CDPC, Ireland) and the managing-editor of the ATDF Journal. Victor has over 20 years of post graduate work experience in the private and public sectors.