Doctoral Research
Research Focus
Thesis: "Climate Change and Finance in Nigeria"
Areas of Inquiry
Climate Finance
Examining how financial flows, instruments, and institutions can mobilise capital for climate action — particularly in the context of Nigeria and West Africa's unique economic and environmental challenges.
Climate Governance
Investigating the role of institutions, policy frameworks, and regulatory mechanisms in ensuring effective and equitable climate governance across different scales and sectors.
Ecological Macroeconomics
Exploring macroeconomic frameworks that integrate environmental limits and ecological sustainability, challenging conventional growth paradigms in light of climate imperatives.
Climate-Aligned Development
Understanding pathways for development that address poverty, inequality, and human wellbeing while advancing climate resilience and low-carbon transitions in the Global South.
Grants & Fellowships
2025
Constellation Fellowship
Climate Curve · $2,000 Grant · Remote
Secured competitive funding to participate in a climate analytics and strategy fellowship. Collaborated with industry experts applying climate risk frameworks to economic scenarios.
2024
CHASE Climate Justice Network Small Grant
Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England · £650 · London
Co-led 'Empowering Change: Bridging Economics, Climate, and Justice in Africa' — an online lecture series with a UEA PhD researcher. Secured funding as project co-lead to bridge economics, climate, and justice in Africa.
2023 – 2027
Mo Ibrahim Governance for Development in Africa (GDAI) Scholarship
Sole Recipient · £130,000 full funding · London, United Kingdom
Highly competitive full doctoral scholarship covering tuition and living stipend. Selected as sole recipient for the 2023 cohort from a global applicant pool, based on academic merit and potential to contribute to governance and development in Africa.
Leadership
2024 – Present
Event Co-Organiser & Working Group Member
Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)
Co-organised two sessions at AHE Conference 2025: 'Systemic Inequalities emerging from Micro to Macro' and 'From Draft to Publication' (expected 100+ participants). Co-designed the 'Big Problems, New Solutions' policy workshop series on economic policymaking.
2024
Project Co-Lead
CHASE Climate Justice Network
Secured a competitive £650 grant from the CHASE consortium to fund knowledge exchange. Co-led 'Empowering Change: Bridging Economics, Climate, and Justice in Africa' online lecture series.
Selected Presentations
2025
CEPR-IDOS-SOAS-UCT workshop on sustainable finance, London
2023, 2024
JRC Summer School on Sustainable Finance
2022
YSI Round-Table speaker, African Economic Sovereignty Conference, Dakar