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WASHINGTON, DC - Paul Fagan is the Director of the Human Rights and Democracy program for the McCain Institute for International Leadership. Paul is a world-renowned expert of human rights and African affairs - specifically Central Africa and the Congo. Previously, Paul worked as the Executive Director of the Eastern Congo Initiative and the Director of the International Republican Institute’s Africa program. He can be reached for comments at [email protected].

Landry Sign茅 is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He joins the Africa Growth Initiative where his research focuses on the political economy of growth, sustainable development, governance, fragile and failed states, regional integration, and business in Africa.

Professor Sign茅 is a distinguished fellow at Stanford University鈥檚 Center for African Studies, chairman of the Global Network for Africa鈥檚 Prosperity, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, a 2016 Woodrow Wilson Public Policy Fellow, and a professor and senior adviser on international affairs to the chancellor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He serves as special adviser to world leaders on international and African affairs.

Professor Sign茅 has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for 鈥渇inding innovative solutions to some of the world鈥檚 most pressing issues鈥� and as a Tutu Fellow. Previously, Professor Sign茅 served as president of a strategy firm and as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. He also served on the board of AMPION Catalyst for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Africa, Citizens Governance Initiative, and the United Nations Association of Canada鈥揗ontreal, and was appointed by a United Nations Undersecretary-General to serve on the Global Network on Digital Technologies for Sustainable Urbanization.

Professor Sign茅 has authored many academic and policy publications focused on Africa, the global political economy, the politics of economic reform and foreign aid, emerging and frontier markets, institutional change, political regimes, state capacity, service delivery, and governance. Among those publications are "Innovating Development Strategies in Africa: The Role of International, Regional and National Actors" and the forthcoming "African Development, African Transformation: How Institutions Shape Development Strategy," both published by Cambridge University Press. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Harvard International Review.

Professor Sign茅 holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science as well as a master's in Political Science from Jean Moulin Lyon III University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Montreal. Additionally, he attended Stanford University for Postdoctoral Studies in Political Science, attended the Executive Program in Leadership at the University of Oxford, and studied Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century at Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education.

Danzell teaches courses in international/domestic terrorism, US national security, intelligence ethics, anti-money laundering, research design and writing for intelligence analysis, and intelligence theory.
His research focuses on international/domestic terrorism, military interventions, African conflict, intelligence theory & application, and a range of conflict processes. He uses quantitative and qualitative methods to develop and test new theoretical insights on these themes. 
Danzell earned a bachelor's degree in political science and history at Cameron University, a master's degree in political science at Kansas State University and a doctorate in security studies at Kansas State University. 

Prior to his role at UP’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, Prof Adebajo was the Director of the  at the  and was Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the . He served on  missions in South Africa, Western Sahara and Iraq, and was Director of the Africa Programme at the  in New York.
He is the author of ten books, including Building Peace in West Africa, UN Peacekeeping in Africa, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Afro-Arab Prophet, Pharaoh, and Pope. He is co-editor or editor of 11 books on Africa’s international relations including From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations. A graduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts, US, he obtained his doctorate from Oxford University in England.