Cohort: Cohort 3: 2024

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.

Dr. Nixon Wamamela is a lecturer in the department of Philosophy, Makerere University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in Philosophy and PhD in the same field from Makerere University. Dr. Nixon Wamamela has extensive trainings in human rights and governance from Makerere University, University of Dar es Salaam and Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. He is a beneficiary of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa, University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Program and African Research Universities Alliance Early-Career research fellowships. His areas of research, teaching and publication are political philosophy, ethics and philosophy of law. His future prospect is impactful academic career growth in the area of political and legal philosophy.