Signatories as at 4 November 2021 (in alphabetical order of primary name)
Dr Stéphane Ancel, Researcher, CNRS, Paris, France
Dr Sofie Annys, Researcher, Institute for Agriculture Fisheries and Food Research, ILVO, and member, Department of Geography University of Ghent, Belgium
Dr Alula Tesfay Asfha, Post-Doctoral Special Researcher, World Heritage Studies Department, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Professor Dr Keita Aoshima, Associate Professor at Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan
Dr David Ambrosetti, researcher, CNRS, Bordeaux, France
Francesca Baldwin, Doctoral Researcher, University of Reading, UK
Dr Trygve Berg, retired Associate Professor, Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway
David Berga, Doctoral Researcher, Anthropologist, Barcelona, Catalonia
Professor Dr Paolo Billi, retired Full Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy
Dr Ninon Blond, Assistant Professor of Geography, École normale supérieure de Lyon, France
Professor Dr Frans Bongers, Professor Tropical Forest Ecology, Environmental Sciences Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
Dr David Brenner, Lecturer in Global Insecurities, International Relations, University of Sussex, UK
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi, University Professor, Hamburg University, Germany
Professor Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Honorary Fellow, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK
Matt Bryden, Strategic Advisor, Nairobi, Kenya
Dr Maria Bulakh, researcher, Associate Professor HSE University, Moscow, Russia
Dr Chekol Kidane Negassie, independent development consultant, Manchester, UK
Dr Giulio Castelli, Research Fellow, Food, Agriculture and Environment, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Dr André Crismer, medical doctor, Liege, Belgium
Jordi Cuixart i Navarro, cultural activist, Barcelona, Catalonia
Skip Dahlgren, Retired Archaeologist and Writer, North Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Professor Catherine D’Andrea, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Professor Dr ir. Jozef (Seppe) Deckers, emeritus Full Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
Catherine Dom, researcher and consultant, Brussels, Belgium
Dr Elleni Centime Zeleke, Assistant Professor, Department of African Studies, Columbia University, USA.
Professor Haggai Erlich, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael, Research Associate, African Cities Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Emanuele Fantini, Senior Lecturer/Researcher, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
Professor Fetien Abay Abera, Professor of Plant Breeding/Seed Science, Former Acting President of Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Dr Eloi Ficquet, Assistant Professor, African Studies, Interdisciplinary Religious Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS, Paris, France
Hugues Fontaine, photographer and author, Paris, France
Dr Michela Gaudiello, adjunct, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Warsaw University, Poland
Professor Michael Gervers, Professor of History, University of Toronto, Canada
Guesh Solomon, PhD student, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, Hamburg, Germany
Gebremeskel Kassa Taffere, Former lecturer of tourism and archaeology at Aksum University, Tigray Regional State Interim Administration Chief of Staff (former), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Habtom Kahsay Gidey, Research Associate (UniBw), Technical University of Munich, Germany
Haftamu Gebreslassie, Postgraduate Student, University of Brescia, Italy
Dr Hagos Abrha Abay, Researcher, Hamburg University, Germany
Professor Haile Debas MD, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, former Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, University of California San Francisco, USA
Dr Monica Hanna, Associate Professor, Dean of the College of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Aswan, Egypt
Professor Laura Hammond, Professor of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, London UK
Dr Jörg Haustein, Lecturer in World Christianities, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Wolfgang Heinrich, Researcher and Consultant, Bad Herrenalb, Germany
Rev. Eberhard Hitzler, former head of the Lutheran World Federation Department for World Service, Bamberg, Germany
Dr Markus Hoehne, Social Anthropologist, University of Leipzig, Germany
Jonas Berhe, Trades Union Organiser and Activist, Germany
Bev Jones, independent development consultant, Oxford, UK
Professor Mukesh Kapila, Emeritus Professor, Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Gunnar Köhlin, Associate Professor and Director, Environment for Development Initiative, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Dr Marie-Luise Kreuter, Historian, Researcher, Landau in der Pfalz, Germany
Kawase Itsushi, PhD, Associate Professor, National Ethnographic Museum of Japan, Osaka, Japan
Professor Dr Sil Lanckriet, EthioTrees Association and Guest Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
Dr Sonia Le Gouriellec, Associate Professor of Political Science, Catholic University of Lille, France
René Lefort, independent researcher, Paris, France
Dr Jörg Lehmann, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Tübingen, Germany
Dr Lutgart Lenaerts, Researcher, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Dr Stephen Lister, development consultant, Oxford, UK
Dr Roy Love, associate staff, University of York, UK
Professor Terrence Lyons, Professor of Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, USA
Professor Tony Magaña MD, Chief of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia
Dr Momoka Maki, Associate Professor, Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan
Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner, Researcher at INCIPIT CSIC, Santiago, Spain
Professor Volker Matthies, retired Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany
Mehret Haile, Food and Nutrition scientist, Cologne, Germany
Dr Thera Mjaaland, social anthropologist, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Environment, Gender and Development Studies, Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Dr Fiona Meehan, independent researcher, Ireland
Tobias Mörike, curator, Erfurt University, Germany
Jason Mosley, Research Associate, African Studies Centre, Oxford University, UK
Moritz Müller, Doctoral Researcher, Anthropologist, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Professor Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Professor of Biostatistics, Vice Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
Dr Mussie Tesfagiorgis, Department of History, University of Winnipeg / RCIC, Canada
Rosa Anna Mancini, MSC Design for Development in Global South (Milan), previous lecturer in Mekelle University, Italy
Prof. Riichi Miyake, Professor, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Peter Nadig, Full Professor of Ancient History, University of Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia, and Free University, Berlin, Germany
Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Research Fellow, Asia-Africa Institute, Hamburg University, Germany
Professor Dr Jan Nyssen, Full Professor, Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium
Dr Rumi Okazaki, Associate Professor, Tokyo, Japan
Dr Sue Onslow, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Kings College, London, UK
Dr Marit Østebø, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, USA
Professor Terje Østebø, Chair, Department of Religion, Professor, Department of Religion & Center for African Studies, University of Florida, USA
Philippe Pellet, Research Assistant, Research Institute on Religion and Society, Budapest, Hungary
Dr Wolfgang Pittroff, development specialist, Germany, Professor and former Dean, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK
Reiner Prass, Historian, Erfurt, Germany
Dr Gerard Prunier, Senior Researcher, CNRS, Paris, France
Dr Rashid Abdi, independent researcher, Kenya
Dr Angela Raven-Roberts, Gender Studies, Lady Margaret Hall, Research Affiliate, Centre for Comparative and International Education, Oxford University, UK
Professor Richard Reid, Professor of African History, Oxford University, UK
Dolors Sabater Puig, Diputada del Parlament de Catalunya, Badalona, Catalonia
Dr Safia Aidid, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Daniele Salvoldi, Adjunct Assistant Professor, American University, Cairo, Egypt
Samuel Kidane Haile, Lecturer, Aksum University, Tigray, Ethiopia
Dr Miho Sato, Assistant Professor, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Japan
Professor Dr Pino Schirripa, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Robin Schoemaker, Independent political scientist, The Hague, The Netherlands
Professor Dr Iris Schröder, Professor of Global History, Erfurt University, Germany
Dr Valeria Semenova, art historian, Department of Asian and African Studies, University of St Petersburg, Russia
Dr Divya Shrivastava, Associate Dean & Associate Professor, School of Performing Arts, NMIMS University, New Delhi, India
Rolf P Schwiedrzik-Kreuter, Researcher, Sociologist and Consultant, Landau in der Pfalz, Germany
Dr Wolbert Smidt, Prof. (MU), Senior Researcher, University of Jena, Germany, and Adjunct Professor, Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Dr Lahra Smith, Associate Professor, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Klara Smits, Doctoral researcher, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Dr Edward GJ Stephenson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, UK
Dr Federica Sulas, Senior Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr habil. István Tarrósy, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Africa Research Centre, University of Pécs, Hungary
Marie Taubert, Gotha-Adua city partnership, Gotha, Germany
Professor Dr Alexander Thumfart, Social Scientist, University of Erfurt, Germany
Dr Charlotte Touati, independant researcher, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Till Trojer, Post-Doc Researcher, London, UK
Professor Dr Kjetil Tronvoll, Full Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, Oslo New University College, Oslo, Norway and Adjunct Professor, College of Law and Governance, Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Prof. Dr. Rainer Tetzlaff, em. Professor of Political Science, Hamburg University, Germany
Professor Dr. Mirjam van Reisen, International Relations, Innovation and Care, Tilburg University, Tilburg, NL
Dr Sarah Vaughan, independent researcher, Edinburgh, UK
Dr Sufian Weise, trainer, Berlin, Germany
Dr Welderufael B Tesfay, Senior researcher in information privacy/security at the Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Dr Jacob Wiebel, Assistant Professor of History, Durham University, UK
Woldegiorgis Ghebrehiwot, Researcher and Journalist, Media Manager, Nairobi, Kenya, and former Lecturer in Journalism, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia
Professor Yacob Mulugetta, Professor of Energy and Development Policy, University College London, UK
Professor Zeray Alemseged, Donald N. Pritzker Professor, University of Chicago, USA
