Professor Laban Ayieko Ogallo - Message of Condolences
Prof. Ogallo had a long and distinguished career that started in 1975 with a brief stint at the East African Meteorological Services. He then joined the meteorology department of the University of Nairobi, from where he was seconded to the role of Secretary and CEO of Kenya National Council for Science and Technology before joining the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) between 1996-2000. In 2000, he was appointed project coordinator of the UN regional drought monitoring center in Nairobi (DMCN). DMCN grew under him to become the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC). Prof. Ogallo was the founding director and led DMCN until 2014. In 2007, he was in the IPCC team of Scientists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He returned to the Department of Meteorology at the University of Nairobi in January 2019 and retired in January 2020.
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2020-11
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/46408 |
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