QUEEN ELIZABETH SCHOLARS

Abdelhamid Benhmade

Abdelhamid Benhmade is a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa and a Queen Elizabeth Scholars – Advanced Scholars Fellow with Open AIR. His...

Angela Yeboah-Appiah

Angela Yeboah-Appiah is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa and a Queen Elizabeth Scholars - Advanced Scholars Fellow with Open AIR. Her Doctorate research...

Anthony Onunekwu Oguguo (Tony)

Anthony Oguguo is a legal scholar and currently a Doctoral Candidate in Health Law and Governance Policy at the University of Ottawa, Canada and a...

Bertha Vallejo

Bertha Vallejo is a science and technology policy analyst, with a focus on innovation studies and the key role that technological changes promoted in...

Calory Larr (Larry) Onyango

Larry is a post-doctoral research fellow at the SARChI Chair in Transformative Innovation, 4IR, & Sustainable Development at the University of Johannesburg, where he...

Chijioke Okorie

Chijioke Okorie is an NRF C2-rated researcher and principal investigator of the Data Science Law Lab, a group advancing legal research to provide evidence...

Dennis Oghenerobor Agelebe

Dennis Oghenerobor Agelebe is a Queen Elizabeth (QES) II Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa, he is leading a research project on digitalizing...

Desmond Oriakhogba

Desmond Oriakhogba is an Associate Professor in the Department of Private Law at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). He holds a PhD...

Dianah Byaruhanga Ajuna

Dianah Byaruhanga Ajuna is a PhD in law student and research fellow with Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) Network, at the Faculty of...

Dominique Diouf

Dominique Diouf is an Open AIR Queen Elizabeth Scholar - Advanced Scholars (QES-AS) Fellow with a strong expertise in corporate sustainability-oriented innovation. He has...

Dr. Volviane Saphir Mfogo 

Dr. Volviane Saphir Mfogo is a Queen Elizabeth Scholars – Advanced Scholars Fellow with Open AIR, specializing in AI and cybersecurity. She holds a PhD in AI...

Elvis Avenyo

Elvis Korku Avenyo is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Competition, Regulation, and Economic Development (CCRED). Before joining CCRED, Elvis was a Research...

Emile Salomon Zambo Assembe

Emile Salomon Zambo Assembe is a PhD researcher in Comparative Higher Education at the University of Montreal where he is a Queen Elizabeth Scholars –...

Esther Adekunbi Mobolayo

Esther Adekunbi is a researcher in Education, specialised in Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment. She is a Queen Elizabeth Scholars - Advanced Scholar Fellow...

Ghati Nyehita

Ghati Nyehita is the 2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the SARChI Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Development at the University of Cape...

Ghazaleh Jerban

Ghazaleh is a PhD Candidate at University of Ottawa and a Queen Elizabeth Scholars - Advanced Scholar with the Centre for Law, Technology and...

Jane Ezirigwe

Jane Ezirigwe is an Open AIR Postdoctoral Fellow on Global Data Governance for Food and Agriculture. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at...

Marie Laure  BELOMO ONGUENE

After obtaining her Baccalaureate in 2011, she opted for higher studies at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Yaoundé II...

Mnena Abuku

Mnena Abuku is associate professor of Drama and Theatre. She is a consultant in Development Communication and a social justice writer. She has facilitated...

Ofonmbuk Esther Ekong

Esther Ekong is an IP Examiner at Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Canada. Esther obtained her PhD (Law) at the University of Ottawa, Canada...

Philda Maiga

Philda is an Open AIR Queen Elizabeth Scholar – Advanced Scholars Fellow and a lawyer with over 10 years’ experience in the field of...

Professor Norris Igbinosa Erhabor

Norris Igbinosa Erhabor is a lecturer in the Department of Health Safety and Environmental Education at the University of Benin, Nigeria, and a Queen...

Sileshi Hirko

Sileshi Bedasi Hirko just recieved his PhD under the co-supervision of Professors Chidi Oguamanam and Jeremy de Beer at the University of Ottawa. His...

Stephen Kehinde Medase

Kehinde is a trained economist who values knowledge generation and transfer in its different facets. He believes in a just and sustainable society. His...

Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou

Thomas Mboa just received his PhD at the Université Laval in Québec City. His PhD explored makerspaces in francophone Africa. His thesis fieldwork was partially funded by Open AIR, resulting a comparison...

Uche Ijoma

Uchenna Ijoma is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, and a Queen Elizabeth Scholars – Advanced Scholars Fellow. Uchenna has an LLM...

Uchenna Ugwu

Uchenna Felicia Ugwu is a lawyer and academic researcher with over ten years’ experience extensively investigating the relationship between Intellectual Property (IP) norms, innovation...

Yobare YENTIARE

Yobare YENTIARE is a research collaborator at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Africa and the Middle East (CIRAM) at Laval University (Canada), a research...