In this week’s lecture, we welcome Adebayo Olukoshi, and Eric Chinje, who will deliver a lecture of the History of Leadership and Governance in Africa.
Adebayo Olukoshi has over 35 years of experience in international relations, governance, and human rights, both in the academic sector and intergovernmental institutions. He was a member of the African Union Assessment Panel and chair of the board of several think tanks, including the European Centre for Development Policy Management and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa. He also previously served as Director of the UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning; Executive Director of the Africa Governance Institute; Executive Secretary of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa; Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs; Senior Research Fellow/Research Programme Coordinator of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala; Senior Programme Staff at the South Centre in Geneva; and Director for Africa and West Asia at International IDEA (Institute for Electoral Democracy and Assistance).
Eric Chinje is the CEO of the African Media Initiative, a role he was appointed to in 2014. The African Media Initiative (AMI) strengthens Africa’s media sector through advocacy, investments, technology, and training. In addition, he is the Director of Strategic Communications at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Before taking up his position at AMI, Eric Chinje served as senior advisor at the KRL International LLC, a Washington-based consultancy specialising in emerging markets. Prior he has led the Global Media Programme at the World Bank Institute (WBI) and, in that capacity, launched the IMAGE (Independent Media for Accountability, Governance, and Empowerment) capacity building programme to create a corps of development journalists in the Bank’s client countries. He also served as the World Bank’s External Relations Manager for Africa and at the African Development Bank (ADB) in Tunis, where he was head of the institution’s External Affairs and Communications Unit. Eric Chinje studied at the universities of Yaoundé, Syracuse, and Harvard.
The event is part of the Africa's Potential series, carried out at the School of Transnational Governance, as part of the Young African Leaders Programme (YALP) funded by the European Commission, and is open to the EUI community, YALP alumni and the YALP network.
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