KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Democratic Governance International Expert for the Swiss Cooperation in Niger. Senior Expert-Consultant for the United Nations Organization (UNODC, UNOWAS). Senior Manager of the Political Governance Program for the Benin Office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Benin, Burkina- Faso, Togo). Founder, Senior Researcher, and Chair of the Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF, www.ciaaf.org ), an independent research Think Tank in Benin. Director of the Research Group for Conflicts and Security. Member of the Laboratory of Regional, International and Comparative Researches, University of Yaoundé 2 (Cameroon). Professor of Political Science. Over 20 years of experience as a violent extremism and terrorism expert, researcher, program manager, political journalist and columnist, medias expert, public intellectual, lecturer, and consultant. I have worked with USAID, the African Union, the ECOWAS, the NORC at the University of Chicago for USAID, OSIWA, UNOWAS, CDD-Ghana, the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, the University of California, Berkeley, etc.