Mr. Said Adejumobi

Said Adejumobi oversees strategic planning, results-based management, accountability mechanism, oversight activities, and institutional coherence to further ECA's sustainable development initiatives across the continent.

With over thirty years working experience, he possesses high level expertise in the areas of governance, democracy, public sector issues, development policy, theory and practice and had served in different capacities including as Regional Director, ECA Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Director of the Governance and Public Administration Division (GPAD) of ECA, and Governance Adviser to the ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, Nigeria.

He holds a PhD in Political Science and spent nearly two decades in academia prior to his tenure with the United Nations. He has published extensively on African development issues and continues to enhance ECA’s reputation as a leading think tank and policy forum advancing Africa’s transformation. His publications include twelve (12) edited/authored books and over seventy (70) articles in learned journals and chapters in books. His recent edited books include: Developmental Regionalism and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa (New York: Routledge, 2020); Voice and Power in Africa's Democracy: Institutions, Participation and Accountability (New York: Routledge, 2018). Democratic Renewal in Africa: Trends and Discourses (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and National Democratic Reforms in Africa: Changes and Challenges.(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).