Affiliateship: 2021-2025
Cohort 6
Country (Nationality)
Nigeria
Discipline
Policy Sciences
Bio
Dr. Pedi Obani is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She has garnered substantial experience in higher education from working as a lecturer in the University of Benin and the Edwin Clark University, both in Nigeria. Between 2019 and 2020, she worked with the United Nations University – Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) as a Research Fellow in Environmental Policy, developing and leading the workstream on knowledge for quality natural resource governance in Africa. Pedi regularly engages in mentoring and continuous professional development activities. She currently co-supervises a PhD candidate in the University of Ghana, Legon, on a research project that is focused on the sustainability of wood fuel production in the Afram Plains. She has keen interest in sustainability, particularly the science and policy interface and how this can be navigated to promote human rights standards and inclusive development across various levels of governance. She therefore collaborates extensively with academics from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in higher education institutions, even across Europe, North America, and Canada. Her research is focused on climate change adaptation and mitigation, the human rights to water and sanitation, and gender inclusiveness. She has authored several high impact peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and a thematic report on the interrelations between the rights to education, and water and sanitation which was presented to the UN General Assembly in October 2020. Pedi belongs to the editorial boards of reputable international academic journals, including Water International and Springer Nature Journal: Discover Sustainability.