Idayat Hassan

• @HassanIdayat

Idayat Hassan is a Lawyer and Director of the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) in Nigeria. Her interests revolve around Democracy, Peace and Security, Transitional Justice and ICT for Development in West Africa. As an expert on Nigeria and West Africa, she regularly appears in various international and local media such as Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Financial Times or The Guardian, among others. As Director of the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), she has managed to rank this organization 11th out of a total of 94 think tanks in sub-Saharan Africa and number 1 in Nigeria, according to the Global Index report. Go To Think Tank 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania. Idayat Hassan has reinforced CDD’s position as a leader in civic technology with a portfolio of projects. Her research on social media has grown in popularity and has been cited by The Economist, the BBC, and various academic publications.