Fonteh Akum

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Fonteh Akum is Executive Director at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS Africa), where he previously headed the Lake Chad Basin Programme. Before joining the ISS in 2017, he worked in research, research management and policy communication at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the Africa Programme of the United Nations University for Peace and also at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington DC. He has published on the future development trajectory of the CEMAC region, and violent extremism, governance and human security in the Lake Chad Basin. Fonteh has a PhD in Politics and international studies from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.