About our principals
Dr Tunji Namaiko
Dr Tunji Namaiko has more than 18 years of experience in conflict, fragility and systemic peacebuilding across Africa and the MENA region. He is an international expert in conflict early warning systems, strategic conflict analysis (SCA), vulnerability/fragility assessments, humanitarian Assessments (HA), resilience building, mediation support processes, P/CVE, Infrastructures for Peace (I4P) and supporting complex transitions. He designs Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus (HDPN) programmes anchored on conflict sensitivity programme management (CSPM) tools. Tunji has worked, consulted and collaborated with a range of organisations, including the UNDP, UNMISS, UN OSRSG-CAAC, the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), GIZ, International IDEA, NIRAS International Consulting, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the AU, and various RECs. Tunji holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Leicester (UK).
Email: Tunji.namaiko@gmail.com
Dr Dimpho Deleglise
Dr Dimpho Deleglise is a seasoned international consultant and facilitator specializing in conflict and fragility management, inclusive governance and peacebuilding, and systemic local development.
She has worked for a variety of development and multilateral organizations, including USAID, GIZ, the World Bank, SADC, COMESA, and the African Union. She also works as a Senior Researcher with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) focusing on the Horn of Africa, and is a Research Associate of the United Nations University Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS).
Previously, she directed research and training programmes at the Institute for Security Studies Security (ISS) in South Africa, with a focus on regional conflict vulnerability and mitigation, early warning and resilience, inclusive governance, mediation, and peacebuilding in southern and eastern Africa.
Email: Dimpho.Deleglise@gmail.com
Prof Gilbert Khadiagala
Professor Gilbert M. Khadiagala has been a consultant on democratic governance, peace and security, regional integration, and the political economy of development for the past 34 years.
In 1990-1, he was part of a team in the Office of the World Bank’s Vice-President for Africa that articulated the centrality of governance in African development. In 2009-11, he was part of a team that conducted field research in Sierra Leone on the political economy of governance in the power and road sectors for the World Bank’s Public Sector and Capacity Building Unit.
In 2006-7 and 3009-10, he worked with the World Bank Institute (WBI) on a capacity-building programme for economic governance in post-conflict South Sudan. In 2007-8, he led consultants who conducted a study for the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) on major trends in regional integration in Africa.
He has also participated in a democracy and governance assessment in Tanzania for Management Systems International (MSI, 2003); a democracy and governance assessment in Liberia for the MSI (2005); a democracy and governance assessment in Uganda for the Associates in Rural Development (ARD, 2006); conflict and vulnerability assessments for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa countries (COMESA, 2010-13); a study of democracy and the management of diversity in East Africa for the UNDP, the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union (AU, 2013); a study of democracy and governance in Southern Africa for the UNDP (Pretoria, 2012); a study on strengthening the capacity of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) in Southern African for the AU Department of Political Affairs (AU DPA, 2009-10); a peace, security and governance study for the East African Community (EAC, 2021-22); a study of the implications of Covid-19 for democratic governance in Southern Africa for the AU and International IDEA (2020-1); a conflict vulnerability and resilience study of Zambia for the African Development Bank (AfDB, 2023); and a study of the political economy of transport corridors in Southern Africa for the AfDB (2024).
In 2009-13, Prof Khadiagala consulted on studies of managing electoral violence in Africa, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa and the North African uprisings to the AU Panel of the Wise. He also assisted the AU DP and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to write the AU’s transitional justice framework.
Besides his consulting work, Prof Khadiagala has had a robust teaching and research career in Kenya, the United States and South Africa.