Advisory Council

NAME                                     

POSITION

LOCATION

Karin Alexander

Unit Manager, States in Transition Observatory, Political Governance Programme, Institute of Democracy (IDASA)

South Africa

Meaza Ashenafi                 

Founder, Ethiopian Women’s Lawyers Association

Ethiopia

Mwesiga Baregu

Political Science Department, University of Dar es Salaam

Tanzania

Richard Calland                  

Democratic Governance and Rights Unit, University of Cape Town

South Africa

Chris Cramer

Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies

UK

Keli Gadzekpo

Executive Vice-Chairman, Databank

Ghana

E. Gyimah Boadi

Afrobarometer and Centre for Democratic Development

Ghana

Ali Hadi

Vice Provost and Director of Graduate Studies and Research, The American University in Cairo

Egypt

Abdalla Hamdok

Director, Governance and Public Administration, United National Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Ethiopia

Samba Ka

Manager, Operations Department (North and West Africa), African Capacity Building Foundation

Zimbabwe

Daniel Kaufmann

Brookings Institution

USA

Michael Keating

Director, Africa Progress Panel

Switzerland

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

Facilitator, African Governance Institute, United Nations Development Program

Senegal

‘Funmi Olonisakin

Senior research fellow, Conflict, Security and Development Group, King's College London

UK

Okey Onyejekwe               

Managing Director, Center for Sustainable Governance, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Ethiopia

Julie Oyegun

Director, World Bank Group Diversity Programs, World Bank

Nigeria

Irene Pogoson

Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan

Nigeria

Ebrima Sall

Executive Secretary, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)

Senegal

Akilagpa Sawyerr

Former Secretary General, Association of African Universities

Ghana

Zene Tadesse

Founder, African Women Researchers for Development
(AAWORD)

Ethiopia

Leonard Wantchekon

Founder and Director, Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP) and Professor of Politics, New York University

Benin

Peter Wanyande

Professor of Political Science and Dean Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi

Kenya