Dr. Ozonnia Ojielo
Dr. Ozonnia Ojielo, a distinguished Nigerian development expert, who currently serves as the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator in Rwanda. With over 25 years of experience in sustainable development, he has overseen UN programmes spanning multiple continents. Prior to his current role, Dr. Ojielo served as Resident Coordinator in Kyrgyzstan and held senior UN Development Programme […]
Dr. Hesphina Rukato
Dr. Hesphina Rukato is a Pan-African development practitioner and academic with experience in environment and climate change, development, governance, and peace and security. She has practiced and written extensively on these topics, including a book, “Future Africa, Prospects for Democracy and Development Under NEPAD (2010), and more recently (2025) on “Tana At 10: Reflections on […]
Seba Issa
Seba Issa is the Aswan Forum Coordinator and Peace Operations Program Manager at the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA), an Egyptian public agency specialised in training, capacity building and research in the fields of peace and security in Africa and the Middle East. She contributes to the centre’s capacity building, […]
Chido Mutangadura-Yeswa
Chido Mutangadura-Yeswa is a peace and conflict expert whose work focuses on human security developments in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on security sector reform, conflict prevention, preventive diplomacy, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction and development, governance, regionalism, and foreign policy. Chido is a former Senior Fellow at the United Nations University-Centre for Policy Research where she co-led research […]
Matteo Peccini
Matteo Peccini is a PhD student in Global Studies at the University of Urbino and a Visiting Research Fellow at the UN University for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges, Belgium, working on Africa-EU relations and Postcolonial Studies.
Joel Odota
Joel Odota holds a Master of Politics and International Relations from the Australian National University and a Master of Politics and International Relations from Peking University. He is the founder of the China-Uganda Research Network (CURN) based at Makerere University Business School, and his work focuses on China-Africa relations, geopolitical competition between China and the […]
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Junhee Seo
Junhee holds a Master’s degree in United Nations Peace from the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University, where her thesis examined conflict-related sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo through a gender-based justice lens. Bridging academic research with grassroots engagement, Junhee centers intersectional approaches that elevate marginalized voices in peace and […]
Ms Elizabeth Mutunga
Ms Elizabeth Mutunga is a PhD student at the University of Nairobi. She was formerly the Head of Governance, Peace and Securirty in COMESA and Coordinator of the Africa Peace and Security Architecture for COMESA and ECOSOCC.