POLITICAL SCIENCE WEBINAR: From Planetary Crisis To Disease Pandemics: The Challenge of Global Governance in A Turbulent World
Obijiofor Aginam, Ph.D.
Dr. Aginam has held senior positions in the United Nations as Senior Research Fellow & Chief of International Cooperation and Development in the United Nations University-Institute for Sustainability and Peace, UN University headquarters in Tokyo (2007-2013), and Deputy-Director and Head of Governance for Global Health, United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2013-2019). He is currently a Principal Visiting Fellow at UNU-IIGH, Adjunct Research Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and Visiting Research Fellow at UN University-Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium. Dr. Aginam has served as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) on trade and food safety involving field missions to Bangladesh and Laos. He was a member of the United Nations Inter-agency Taskforce on Non-communicable Diseases (2014-2019), and a visiting professor at the University for Peace, Costa Rica. He serves on the editorial board of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm. He is the author of Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World.