About Jake Effoduh

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Jake Okechukwu Effoduh was born in Nigeria and grew up there. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws in 2010 from the department of Public and International Law at the University of Abuja and subsequently advanced to the Nigerian Law School in 2011 where he qualified to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Effoduh holds two master’s degrees in international law from the University of Oxford in the UK, and from York University in Canada respectively. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Osgoode Hall Law School and a recipient of the Vanier Scholarship, the most prestigious doctoral award in Canada. He is conducting research on the legitimization of artificial intelligence in Africa. Effoduh serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Frontier Risks working to identify key future shocks for the next generation and proposing policy opportunities that will build resiliency in the face of global risks.

Effoduh has been a human rights lawyer for over a decade, with a demonstrated history of advocacy across domestic, regional, and international human rights systems including the ECOWAS, the African Human Rights Commission, and the United Nations Human Rights Council. Effoduh anchored two nation-wide radio programmes in Nigeria for twelve years, which aired on over 150 stations and earned him several national and international awards for his radio advocacy. He has gained programmatic, research and academic experiences from working across 30 countries.

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