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ASSN has a 13 member Executive Committee that provides strategic leadership to the network. The Executive Committee is elected by the General Assembly to a three year term.
| Prof Eboe Hutchful - Chair |
 Eboe Hutchful is the chair and Interim Executive Secretary of the ASSN. He is a professor of Africana Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and has taught at several other universities in Africa and North America, including the University of Toronto, Trent and Waterloo Universities in Ontario, 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 following international organs: the International Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF); the UN International Policing Advisory Council (IPAC); the Governing Board of the Global Consortium for Security Transformation (GCST); and the Advisory Group of the (erstwhile) Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) in the UK.
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Prof Medhane Tedasse
Horn of Africa Regional Coordinator |
 Medhane Tadesse is a specialist on African Peace and Security. He has taught at various universities in Ethiopia and abroad and 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 the pertinent issues of regime stability, vulnerability to conflict, ethnic conflict, armed violence, globalized security and diplomacy, militarization, governance and humanitarian crisis in Africa. Prof Tadesse has served as a consultant to several African governments, international and inter-governmental organisations on issues relating to peace and stability. He runs the Peace and Security Studies Directorate at the Centre for Policy Research & Dialogue (CPRD) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is also a columnist and frequent commentator on global and regional security issues, and editor of The Current Analyst, an online journal that examines issues relating to African peace and security.
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Dr 'Funmi Olonisakin
West Africa Regional Coordinator |
 'Funmi Olonisakin is the founding Director of the African Leadership Centre (ALC), as well as the Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG) at King's College London.Prior to this, she worked at the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (OSRSG/ CAAC), as Adviser on Africa. She has held research and visiting positions at the University of Lagos (Nigeria) and the Institute of Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria (South Africa). Dr Olonisakin is an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Training for Peace (TfP) Programme. She is also a co-founder and Trustee of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD).
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Prof Gavin Cawthra
Southern Africa Regional Coordinator |
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 Gavin Cawthra is the Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Management of the University of Witwatersrand, which coordinates a network of Southern African institutions engaged in education and research in the areas of security, peacekeeping and peace building. He teaches policy studies and security studies at the Centre. He has previously been the Director of the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of Witwatersrand, as well as the Coordinator of the Military Research Group, Director of the Committee on South African War Resistance, and Research Officer at the International Defence and Aid Fund (UK). Prof Cawthra has lectured in over 20 countries, both in Africa and further afield, and has received a number of international scholarships, research grants and awards. He periodically consults for governments, international organisations and NGOs.
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Lt Col (Rtd) Jerry Kitiku
East Africa and the Great Lakes Regional Coordinator |
 Jerry Kitiku is the Director of the Security Research and Information Centre (SRIC-Kenya), a non-profit think tank that provides data and information on human security and the security sector in Kenya, the wider Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa. He is a retired Kenya Navy officer who served for many years as a security attaché in various Kenyan diplomatic missions abroad.
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Dr Niagalé Bagayoko-Penone
Member |
 Niagalé Bagayoko-Penone is the Programme Manager for the Maintenance and Consolidation of Peace Programme of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF). She has conducted extensive field research in several francophone African countries, much of it anchoring on the interface between security and development. She has been a lecturer at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) - University of Sussex (UK) and the Institute of Political Studies in Paris; an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Research and Education on Strategy and Technology (US-CREST); and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in France. In 2003, she won the Prize for Scientific Research awarded by the French Ministry of Defence. She has also been a consultant for the African Union; the Department for International Aid (DFID); the International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT); the Centre for Study of the Social Science of Defence (C2SD); and the French Ministry of Defence.
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Dr Sandy Africa
Member |
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 Sandy Africa is an Associate Professor in Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Prior to this she held several senior appointments in the South African security services. From 1995 to 2001, Africa headed South Africa’s civilian intelligence services’ Academy. From 2001 – 2004, she served as Deputy Director-General Corporate Services of the South African Secret Service.
And from 2004 – 2007, she was the Chief of Staff in the Ministry for Intelligence, after which she formally left the service to pursue an academic career. Recently, on the request of South Africa’s Minister for State Security, Africa was involved in the reorganization of the country’s civilian intelligence agencies into a single State Security Agency. Her publications include Africa, S and Kwadjo (eds), 2009. Changing intelligence dynamics in Africa, published by the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR), University of Birmingham, and Africa, S. 2009. Well kept secrets: the right of access to information and the South African intelligence services, published by the Institute for Global Dialogue and the Friedrich Ebert Stigtung.
She has also published several book chapters and other articles on the subject of intelligence governance, mainly on South Africa’s experience of reform in this sector. Africa holds a Masters degree in African Politics from the University of South Africa and a PhD in Management from the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Prof Boubacar N'Diaye
Member |
 Boubacar N'Diaye is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Pan-African Studies at The College of Wooster, Ohio. He is a widely published scholar specializing in civil-military relations, security, and democratization. He is the author of numerous journal articles and academic papers on these subjects. He is also the author, co-author or co-editor of several books, including The Challenge of Institutionalizing Civilian Control (2001), Not Yet Democracy: West Africa's Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism (2005), Challenges of Security Sector Governance in West Africa (2008). He has been a consultant to African, US and international agencies and organizations such as SIPRI, ACSS, ECOWAS, AU, UN, World Bank and the SSRC's Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. Prof N'Diaye is currently involved in the Civil-Military Training of the Trans-Saharan Symposium and is a member of a number of International Advisory Boards. He also contributes to various academic and advocacy initiatives designed to reform security establishments and institutionalize democratic governance in the security sector of African states.
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David Pulkol
Member |
 David Pulkol is the former Director-General of Uganda's External Security Organisation (ESO), as well as the former Executive Chairman of the African Leadership Institute (AFLI), a public policy think tank based in Kampala. Mr Pulkol has also served in the past as a minister in the Ugandan government, an elected Member of Parliament and a UNICEF Deputy Director in charge of East and Southern Africa.
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Anicia Lalá
Member |
 Anicia Lalá was previously Deputy Director for Africa at the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform project (GFN-SSR), based at Cranfield University in the UK. She has held a lecturing position in Conflict and Peace Studies at the Higher Institute for International Relations in Mozambique. She also worked at the Mozambican Ministry of Defence with responsibilities in the fields of international cooperation, elaboration and revision of legislation, and was part of a commission appointed to establish a Military Academy. She is currently working on her PhD at Bradford University in the UK. Anicia is a member of the Southern Africa Defence & Security Management Network (SADSEM).
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Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim
Member |
 Jibrin Ibrahim is the director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), a regional research, advocacy and training NGO in West Africa. A political scientist and development expert with over thirty years of active engagement with the civil society, Dr. Ibrahim presently sits on the Nigerian Electoral Reform Committee and was the National Convenor of the Citizen's Forum for Constitutional Reform. He was previously the Nigeria Country Director of Global Rights, and before that, he was Director of Research at the Centre for Research and Documentation in Kano, Nigeria, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Ahmadu Bello University. He has also held Visiting Professorships at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the University of Toronto (Canada).
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Dr. Adedeji Ebo
Member |
 Adedeji Ebo is Chief of the Security Sector Reform Team at the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations. He joined the United Nations from the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), where he was a Senior Fellow and Head of the Africa Programme. Before this, he was an Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna, as well as a Guest Lecturer at the National Defence College in Abuja, Nigeria. He has been Consultant to the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD, West Africa); Small Arms Survey (Geneva); International Alert (London); and the Centre for Conflict Resolution and Peace Advocacy (Nigeria). He was for several years Country Researcher for Landmine Monitor, a publication of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL); Team Leader, Small Arms Research Unit, African Strategic and Peace Research Group (AFSTRAG); Guest Lecturer and External Assessor at the National War College, Abuja, Nigeria; and Guest Lecturer, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji-Kaduna, Nigeria.
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Prof Robin Luckham
Member |
 Robin Luckham is a political sociologist with 45 years of professional experience. He began his academic career in Nigeria and Ghana, over the years establishing himself as an authority on the politics, security and political economy of Sub-Saharan Africa, with special reference to Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Somaliland, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Liberia, Senegal and Mali. He has also held teaching positions at Manchester University, Harvard University and at the Australian National University. In 2006, he became the founding Chair of the Global Consortium on Security Transformation (GCST), and between 2002-2007 chaired the International Advisory Group of the Global Facilitation Network on Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR). Prof Luckham is currently a post-retirement Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex (UK). |
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