Hany Gamil Besada is the Senior Research/Program Advisor and Senior Research Coordinator of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, United Nations Development Programme, and Senior Research Fellow, China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture, China Agriculture University He is also Non-resident Senior Research Fellow with the UN University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa; Senior Fellow, Columbia Centre on Sustainable Investment; Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, and Senior Fellow with the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa.