Episode 95 – Africa Multilateral Financial Institutions
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Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about Africa Multilateral Financial Institutions with Professor Daniel Bradlow. Daniel Bradlow is a Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, Emeritus Professor at the American University Washington College of Law and a Compliance Officer in the Social and Environmental Compliance Unit, United Nations Development Program. He has worked as a Senior Special Fellow in the Legal Aspects of Debt and Financial Management Programme of the UN Institute on Training and Research, a Consultant to the World Dams Commission, the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute for Eastern and Southern Africa, Pole-Dette, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, UNESCO, the UK’s Department for International Development and the MacArthur Foundation. He also served as Head of the International Economic Relations and Policy Department for the South African Reserve Bank and as Chair of the Independent Review Mechanism for the African Development Bank. Professor Bradlow has lectured in the US and many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America on both the public and private aspects of international economic and financial law and the negotiating and structuring of international economic transactions, and the author of numerous publications on the global legal issues applicable to international financial institutions and on international development finance and human rights.
Professor Bradlow’s areas of expertise include global economic governance, international financial institutions, extractive industries and human rights, financial institutions and human rights, international development law, international economy and human rights, international trade and human rights, foreign investment law and human rights.
About the Podcast
The Conflict & Development in Africa podcast brings experts from Africa and the world as guests to discuss critical conflict and development issues that affect Africa. Our guests include practitioners, academics, journalists, researchers, policy makers and advocates that are renowned and are nationally and internationally recognized for their work, expertise and contribution to conflict and development issues in Africa. Our audience includes policy makers, governments, researchers, students, businesses and anyone that is interested in conflict and development issues in Africa.
About the Host
Dr Michael Nwankpa has an extensive experience spanning over a decade studying, researching, writing and consulting on conflict and development issues in Africa.
Michael Nwankpa has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He has held several research fellowships including as a Rice University Fellow and a terrorism research Fellow (past) at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. He is currently a fellow at the Royal United Service Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and a research fellow at the Geneva-based Centre on Armed Groups. Dr. Nwankpa has extensive experience studying counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies, advising relevant government development departments and security agencies, and consulting for multilateral organizations. Michael is the author of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, 1999-2021: A Militarized Democracy (Routledge 2022) and co-author of the seminal work on Boko Haram, The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Oxford University Press/Hurst 2018). He has written several articles and is currently working on three book projects.