The CADFP Advisory Council is comprised of academic leaders from Africa and the African diaspora who offer strategic vision for the program. Historically, the Advisory Council selected projects to facilitate prosperous, effective and mutually beneficial international higher education engagements between scholars in Africa and African Diaspora academics in Canada and the United States.

Read the bios of our Advisory Council.

Read the study conducted by Advisory Council Chair Emeritus, Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, that laid the groundwork for the CADFP:

Engagements between African Diaspora Academics in the U.S. and Canada and African Institutions of Higher Education: Perspectives from North America and Africa

The CADFP is made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.