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Dr. Leena Koni HOFFMANN Associate Fellow and Country Lead, Africa Programme, Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London

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 Dr Leena Koni Hoffmann is an Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House and the Nigeria Country Lead for the Africa Programme’s Social Norms and Accountable Governance Project (SNAG). She is also a technical advisor on food security and agricultural policy to the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and a member of the International Advisory Board of SOS SAHEL. Leena was recently appointed to the OECD's Sahel and West Africa Club's Gender and Youth Working Group. Her research focuses on regional trade, corruption and governance, African politics and security. Leena has worked as an investigator for Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Commission and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).