Minister and former student visited SLU

Anna Tibaijuka earned a doctors degree at SLU in the 1980´s. Today she is a minister of the government of Tanzania. During her visit at SLU she met with, among other representatives for SLU, the vice chancellor Lisa Sennerby Forsse, and the Assistant Vice-Chancellor Johan Schnürer, who presentation of Global Challenges University Alliance. Professor Lennart Salomonsson, Department of Urban and Rural development, presented Agricultural Sciences for Global Development, SLU Global. Anna Tibaijuka was very pleased to visit her old university, and is interested in collaborating with SLU.

Last week Anna Tibaijuka visited Stockholm and a seminar in the Riksdag about women’s education, where she met with the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson. Anna Tibaijuka is one of the founders of “Joha Trust”, (a trust for girls´ education in Tanzania, in order to honor Barbro Johansson, teacher and missionary in Tanzania.)

Program of the Professor Anna Tibaijuka´s visit to SLU Uppsala:

Vice-Chancellor Lisa Sennerby Forsse
Presentation of SLU

Assistant Vice-Chancellor Johan Schnürer
Presentation of Global Challenges University Alliance

Professor Lennart Salomonsson, Department of Urban and Rural development, representing Agricultural Sciences for Global Development, SLU Global

Professor Håkan Jönsson, Department of Energy and Technology
Presentation of his research with sanitation issues

Associate Professor, Head of Student Affairs and Learning Development Roger Pettersson
Presentation of the new Alumni strategy of SLU

Researcher Linley Chiwona-Karltun, Department of Urban and Rural development
Presentation of SLU’s work with Alumni in Africa

Discussion