Cohort: Cohort 3: 2024

Selorm Yaotse Dorvlo is an Agricultural Mechanization Expert and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Ghana. His research focuses on developing sustainable agricultural mechanization strategies for smallholder rice farmers in Ghana, assessing the potential of biomass conversion to energy within the agricultural production sector, and designing innovative and suitable agricultural machinery. Selorm is also a professional engineer registered with the Ghana Institution of Engineering. He has been involved in various research projects through grants he has received, such as the post-doctoral fellowship with the Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FSNet-Africa), the Feed the Future Grant for Early Career researchers, and the ARUA-Carnegie Early Career research fellowship.

Deborah D. Adeyemo is a lecturer in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law at the University of Ibadan. She holds an LL. B from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. She has an LL. M from the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. She obtained her PhD in International Criminal Law from the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. She is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and a member of the Nigerian Bar Association. She is a DAAD academic excellence scholar (2013) and a co-recipient of the Solidarity Fund for Innovation Project (FSPI) Grant (2022). Her primary research interest is in the field of public law with special interest in issues relating to criminal justice, crime prevention and international criminal law.

Dr. Akwasi Adu-Poku is an ARUA-Carnegie Early Career Research Fellow currently based at the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town. He is also a Research Fellow at The Brew Hammond Energy Centre, Ghana.
Akwasi’s expertise spans renewable energy systems, energy policy, and climate adaptation. His interdisciplinary work is driven by a commitment to advancing sustainable development and climate resilience in Africa.
At ACDI, his research focuses on climate and energy governance in Ghana, with a particular emphasis on policy coherence, institutional frameworks, and multi-dimensional inequality. He aims to generate insights to support more effective and inclusive climate policy development in Ghana and across the continent.