Sanusha Naidu
Sanusha Naidu is a foreign policy analyst. Her research interests include Democratisation in Africa; Africa’s Political Economy and Development; Africa’s relations with Emerging Powers from the South (BRICS and IBSA); South African Foreign Policy Analysis; and the role of track two diplomacy in International Relations. Ms Naidu has a Masters in International Relations from the […]
Kheira Tarif
Kheira Tarif (Algeria/United Kingdom) is a Research Assistant in the Climate Change and Risk Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Her research focuses on the pathways between climate change and violent conflict.
Anab Ovidie Grand
Anab Ovidie Grand is a Junior Research Fellow with the Peace, Conflict and Development Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). She mainly works on the Training for Peace (TfP) programme but also covers the Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON) and the Climate-related Peace and Security Risks project (CPSR).
Thomas Mandrup
Thomas Mandrup is an Extraordinary Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Associate Professor at Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark. He has published articles and book chapters and co-edited several books on issues related to African security governance, climate security in Africa, Peacemissions and South African foreign policy. Currently, he is finalizing a monograph […]
Alexandra Lukamba
Alexandra A. Lukamba is a former Research Fellow at ACCORD. Prior to joining ACCORD, she was pursuing a dual master’s in International Development and in Leadership and Development at Sciences Po Paris and King’s College London. During her tenure at King’s College London, she was selected as an Associate Fellow of the African Leadership Centre. […]
Désiré Yetsowou Assogbavi
A lawyer and international development expert, Desire Assogbavi has been successively the Resident Representative to the African Union and Director of the Liaison Offices of three international organizations: Oxfam International, Plan International, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for 13 years combined between 2006 and 2019, where he worked on a range of issues […]
Norman Chivasa
Dr. Norman Chivasa is a post-doctoral fellow in the Peacebuilding programme, Durban University Technology, South Africa. His research interests involves urban peacebuilding, social crime prevention & community development initiatives. His consulting specialty involves designing, implementing and evaluating local infra- structures for peace and development at village level.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Olusegun Obasanjo has been described as one of the greatest figures of the second generation of post-colonial African leaders. He received praise both for overseeing Nigeria’s transition to representative democracy in the 1970s and for his Pan-African efforts to encourage cooperation across the continent. He was President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, during which […]
Zoe Mafoko
Zoe Mafoko is a former Intern at ACCORD. She has completed a Bachelor of Journalism (with Distinction), majoring in Communications, Politics and International Studies. Ms. Mafoko brings with her a wide-ranging professional history, having interned with the Mail & Guardian, the Daily Maverick, Carte Blanche, the South African Broadcasting Commission and Volume Africa. A member […]
Savannah Wilmot
Savannah is a Senior Programme Officer within the Programmes Department. She joined ACCORD in September 2020. Savannah holds her Master of Arts degree in Politics from the University of Cape Town. Savannah also holds her Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Political and International Relations from Rhodes University, where she also obtained her Bachelor of […]