Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies
Dr. Akinola Olojo is a senior researcher in the Transnational Threats and International Crime Programme at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria, South Africa. Before this, he was a visiting scholar at the Institut d’Études Politiques (SciencesPo) in France where he taught on violence and terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa. Akinola was also a visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in The Hague. He has a PhD from the Université Paris Descartes and he is an alumnus of King's College London.
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