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Dr. Benson Chinedu Olugbuo has been appointed as the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) as the Country Director for Nigeria.
He will lead the centre’s growing team in the region with his over a decade of experience across the nonprofit, academia, and justice reform sectors,according to a statement.
Dr. Olugbuo holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Cape Town, South Africa; an LLM in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and an Honors LLB from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria with experience in human rights and democracy.
Dr. Olugbuo was a Fox International Fellow and Visiting Assistant in Research at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University (2011-2012) and the Anglophone Africa Coordinator for the NGO Coalition for the ICC (2004-2009).
He championed the campaign for the ratification and domestic implementation of the Rome Statute of the ICC in Sub-Saharan Africa and participated in the Review Conference of the ICC in 2010. Most recently, Dr. Olugbuo was the Executive Director of the CLEEN Foundation (formerly known as Centre for Law Enforcement Education) from October 2015 to August 2021.
He has published widely on justice sector reform, international criminal justice, and human rights in Africa.
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