PRESIDENT	Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig University of Cologne Extensive field research in the nomadic pastoral communities of Kenya (Pokot) and Namibia (Himba). Thematic focus: - Relationship between man and the   environment in the arid regions of Africa - Interdisciplinary cooperation on questions   of environmental change and socio-   economic development - Risk management in rural communities - Forms of conflict management - Local innovation and adaptation in the   context of global change. Co-founder of the Cologne African Studies Centre CASC, spokesman for the research group “Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in the Savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa”. Writer. Since January 2010 executive director of the Jutta Vogel Stiftung.