UCHE IGWE

Dr Uche Igwe is currently a visiting fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales.  He is a political economy analyst, legislative scholar, governance and policy expert with twenty years of practical experience working with the parliament, government agencies, local and international non-governmental organizations, the media, research think tanks and the private sector. He holds a PhD degree in Politics from the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex and a Master of Arts degree in Governance and Development from the prestigious Institute of Development Studies (IDS) also in Sussex. He is a prodigious commentator on contemporary issues of politics and governance in the continent, including democracy, extractive industry governance, corruption, cyber security, conflict and insecurity, terrorist financing, blue economy, social protection, and Chinese engagement in Africa among others. He is the associate editor of the African Journal for Parliamentary Affairs. 

Dr Igwe was a former Africa Policy Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC. He has held senior advisory positions at the World Bank, Open Government Partnership (OGP) and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) offices back in Nigeria. He has recently been appointed visiting professor at the Polish Centre for African Studies in Wroclaw.