Ibrahim Al-bakri Nyei has 12 years of extensive research experience. He has worked as a researcher at the International Growth Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science on the project Fragility and Resilient Assessment of Mano River Union Member States (Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone). On this project, he was the principal researcher responsible for the thematic area on ‘Resilient and Inclusive Polity’. From 2019 to 2020 he worked as a researcher at the London Business School (LBS) on the project “The Political Economy of African Development: Ethnicity, Nation, and History”. From 2018 to 2020 he was an Adam Smith Fellow in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University (Virginia, USA). This fellowship focuses on studying three leading schools of thought in political economy: the Austrian, Virginia and Bloomington Schools. In recent years he has advised and consulted for the World Bank, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Folke Bernadotte Academy, and the African Union - African Peer Review Mechanism. He previously worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Governance Commission of Liberia, focussing on decentralization and local governance reforms, constitutional reform, security sector and public sector reform.

Dr Nyei holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies and focuses on governance, democratization, decentralization, public sector and security sector reform.

BA: Political Science, African Methodist Episcopal University (AME)

MSc: Public Policy, Maastricht University