SECRETARIAT
The ASSN has its main secretariat in Accra, Ghana. There is also a smaller office attached to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
Prof. Eboe Hutchful
Chair and Interim Executive Secretary
A Ghanaian political scientist, Prof Hutchful is the chair and Interim Executive Secretary of the ASSN. Prof Hutchful is a professor of African Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He has taught at several other universities in Africa and North America, including the University of Toronto, the University of Ghana and the University of Port Harcourt. Prof Hutchful is a long-time researcher on civil-military relations, security sector reform, and international development issues. He is the author of Ghana's Adjustment Experience: The Paradox of Reform (James Currey, 2002), co-editor (with Wuyi Omitoogun) of Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa: the Processes and Mechanisms of Control (Oxford University Press, 2006), and co-editor (with Abdoulaye Bathily) of The Military and Militarism in Africa (Codesria Books, 1998). He is a member of the UN International Policing Advisory Council (IPAC); the International Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF); and is the Chair of the African Leadership Forum's Experts Group on Security and Demilitarization in Africa.
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Ecoma Alaga
Senior Programme Manager
Ecoma Alaga specialises on Gender, Peace and Security with particular interest in security/ justice sector reform and governance. She has worked and consulted extensively for a number of international, regional and national organisations; including with regards the development of national action plans on UNSCR 1325 and establishment of gender management systems in ministries of defence and other security institutions. She is currently a core faculty member on the HMG Security and Justice Programme at the University of Birmingham and Senior Programme Manager at the African Security Sector Network (ASSN).
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Oulie Keita
Programme Manager/Gender & SSR Gender Advisor
Oulie Keita is a graduate of the University of Regis, USA, (Master's degree in NonProfit Management and Certificate in Program Management) and the University of Maryland, USA, (Bachelor of Science in International Relations). Over the years in her professional career, she has been active in various capacities, including project management, fundraising, proposal development, grant management, communications, advocacy, reporting, financial management, and research. She has managed programmes and did consultancies with international organizations, bilateral and multi-lateral organizations, private firms, and Non-Governmental organizations based in America and in Africa. Before joining ASSN some of the organizations that she has worked for and collaborated with include the Woodrow Wilson International Center-Africa Programme, USAID, the Millennium Challenge Account, the Millennium Development Goals Project, the United States Department of Agriculture, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNOWA, ECOWAS-Small Arms and Light Weapons Programme, Femmes Africa Solidarite, and the African Union. She has also prepared conference papers on Women and Children in Armed Conflict for the African Union Peace and Security Council, documents for the AU Experts meeting on peace and security, presented papers at the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW) in New York, Beijing +15 workshop, Pre-summit CSO meeting at the African Union. She has represented her various organizations in conferences, high level meetings, and training workshops. Oulie Keita is bilingual, fluent in both English and French. Her regional experience includes the Great Lakes, Mano River Union, Senegal, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad.
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Philip Emase
Information and Communications Officer
Philip is a journalist by profession and a native of Kenya. He began his career as an editor with a publishing firm in Nairobi and is a former associate editor with Newsfromafrica. He has also corresponded for various international news agencies including Nigrizia and Afronline. He was most recently the Head of Communications at Koinonia, an NGO with social development projects in Kenya, Zambia and Sudan. Between August 2008 and December 2009 he doubled as the coordinator of the organization's educational projects in Central Sudan. He has also worked as the project manager of The Big Issue Kenya, a charity media project supported by the International Network of Street Papers (INSP). Philip has a BSc degree in Information Science from Moi University, Kenya. He has attended additional trainings conducted by various media and development organisations, including Thompson-Reuters, ECHO, and the Slovakian NGO, PIPA. He speaks English, Swahili and French.
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Janet H. Abubakar
Donor Liaison Officer
Janet's biggest dream is to see sustainable peace achieved across Africa. She holds an MSc in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies from the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Ghana. Before joining the ASSN, Janet was Assistant Registrar at MountCrest University College in Ghana. She has previously worked with Freedom from Hunger Ghana as the Programme Officer - Monitoring and Fundraising, and as the administrative officer of the Peacebuilding Project at the University of Ghana's Legon Centre for International Affairs (LECIA). Janet has also been a training and fundraising consultant for the ActionAid programme in Ghana. Among the trainings she has attended are: a Certificate Course in 'Civilian Peacekeeping and Peace building' organized by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) and ECOWAS in Abuja, Nigeria and a Certificate Course in 'Conflict Care and Reconciliation' at the Transcend Peace University in Romania.
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Elom K. Khaunbiow
Senior Programme Assistant
Elom is a Togolese national with a passion for pan-Africanism. He graduated in 2008 with an MA in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nantes and has a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin. Before joining the ASSN as Senior Programme Assistant, Elom worked for the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) in his country's capital, Lomé. He was a Programme Associate specifically assigned to UNREC's Regulation of Small Arms and Light Weapons Brokers in Africa Project and The African Security Sector Reform Programme. Elom's combined interest in international relations, human rights and African security sector affairs partly grew out of a series of internships he undertook at Amnesty International, the Togolese Association for the Defence and Promotion of Human Rights (TADPHR) and the Togolese ministry of foreign affairs. He speaks English and French.
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Prof Medhane Tadesse
Senior SSR Advisor to the African Union
Prof Medhane Tadesse is a specialist on African Peace and Security. Prof Tadesse has taught at various universities in Ethiopia and abroad. He has written extensively on African security and related topics, spawning four books, over 160 briefing papers, articles, commentaries and policy memos. A lot of his work has dwelt on pertinent issues like regime stability, vulnerability to conflict, ethnic conflict, armed violence, globalized security and diplomacy, militarization, governance and humanitarian crisis in Africa. He was seconded by the ASSN to help coordinate the African Union's effort to develop an SSR Policy framework for its member states. Aside from this role in the AU SSR Project, Prof Tadesse runs the Peace and Security Studies Directorate at the Centre for Policy Research & Dialogue (CPRD) in Addis Ababa. (CPRD is the ASSN's Regional Hub in the Horn of Africa.) Prof Tadesse is a columnist and frequent commentator on global and regional security issues. He has served as a consultant to several African governments, international and inter-governmental organisations on issues relating to peace and stability. He also edits an online journal titled The Current Analyst, which examines issues relating to African peace and security.
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Lina Imran
Intern
Work Experience
Lina is a graduate of Addis Ababa University, with an MA in Peace and Security Studies, a BA in Political Science and International Relations, and a Diploma in Management. She began her internship at the ASSN in March 2010 and has been the main Rapporteur for three important African Union SSR meetings in Addis Ababa, most notably two workshops on the draft AU SSR Policy in December 2009 and May 2010. Lina has been a member of the African Union Youth Volunteer Corps since July 2009. She is also a One Young World (OYW) Convening Ambassador for Ethiopia and an Oxfam International Youth Action Partner (OIYP). She has participated in a number of SSR workshops in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Sweden. In January 2010 she was a delegate to the One Young World international summit in London. Lina speaks fluent English and Amharic, fair Arabic and a smattering of French.
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Eleni Tafesse
Intern
Eleni worked for a number of reputable American corporations and health care institutions before joining the ASSN Office in Addis Ababa. She has a MS degree in Taxation from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Immediately before returning to her native Ethiopia from the United States, she had risen to the position of Controller at Platinum Health Care Inc. She also worked previously as an Assistant Controller at Horizon West Healthcare, Accounting Manager at C&L Financial, Tax Associate at Lautze & Lautze, Financial Analyst at VantiveCorp and in different positions at Stanford Property & Finance, Frank, Rimerman & Co. LLP. She is highly computer literate and experienced in the use of business and financial management systems. |
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