Board of Trustees

Dr Rebecca Samuel Akpang studied Banking and Finance at the undergraduate level, and

commenced her career as a Banker, before eventually going into postgraduate studies that

ended with a doctorate degree in Business Management. She is an accomplished consultant

in business management, public Speaker and commentator on Nigeria’s increasing

environmental challenges, especially deforestation, and the need for stakeholders (e.g.

government, private sector, communities and NGOs) to wake up and effectively implement

international environmental programmes like the UN Decade on Biodiversity (2011 – 2020)

and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021 – 2030). In 2009 (23 rd to 27 August),

she attended the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) “World Conference on Ecological

Restoration at Perth, Western Australia”, with the theme “Making Change in a Changing

World”. Since then, her commitment to ecological (ecosystems) restoration activities in

Nigeria and Africa has been total and overwhelming. She is highly committed to the vision,

mission, and programs of the African Ecological Restoration Foundation (AERF). AERF is

happy to have her as one of her Members of the Board of Trustees.