- Co-Chair1: Dorothee Kinde Gazard, former Health Minister of Benin
- Co-Chair2 : Mr. Abdourahmane Diouf, Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation (Senegal)
- Panelist1 : Tumani Corrah, clinical researcher, specialist in infectious diseases . Director of Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), Director of Research and Development for Africa at the British Medical Research Council Foundation
- Panelist2 : Mrs Hind Ouzzine – CEO-QCT LINK – Paris
- Panelist3 : Prof Eunice Seekoe Member of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
- Panelist4 : Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Director – Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research College of Health Sciences University of Ghana
- Panelist5 : Peggy Oti-Boateng Executive Director- African Academy of Sciences
Special Guests
- Prof Mamadou Ndoye, Chairman of the Health Sciences Section (ANSTS)
- Babacar Gueye, DPRS MSAS
- Michèle Verschoore, Medical Director, Research & Innovation, L’Oréal (France)
- Fatou Bintou Sarr Research Director, Research and Trining Unit (UFR) at the University of Thiès
- Dean