Cohort: Cohort 3: 2024

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.

Dr. Amare is an assistant professor at Addis Ababa University, Department of Management. He has over 16 years of experience in management teaching and consulting various public and private organizations. Before joining Addis Ababa University, Dr. Amare worked as director of Human Resource Management and Development at Arba Minch University. Dr Amare earned his Ph.D. in Commerce specializing in Entrepreneurship and MSMEs from Mangalore University and is currently the head of Academic Programs and Teaching Learning Support Unit for the College of Business and Economics. He has research articles published in international journals. Dr Amare was the Deputy Director of Addis Ababa University’s Strategic Planning Office and the head of the Executives Idea Exchange forum of Addis Ababa University, which was a quarterly forum that brought policymakers and researchers together. Currently, he won an Early-Career Research Fellowship at the University of Lagos under the ARUA-Carnegie ECR 2023 scheme.