The International Advisory Council is a body of high-level political and thought leaders committed to providing strategic intelligence, foresight, and influence to support and promote Afrobarometer internationally. The council’s role is to inspire and energize policy makers, funders, other key audiences, as well as Afrobarometer staff by advocating for our shared mission to make African voices count in public policy and development.
IAC members:
- Ambassador Johnnie Carson (Chair), former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs and former ambassador to Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Uganda
- H.E. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Lord Browne of Ladyton, member of the UK House of Lords
- Dr. Willy Mutunga, former chief justice and president of the Supreme Court of Kenya
- Margot Wallström, former minister of foreign affairs of Sweden
- Zeinab Badawi, international broadcaster and education leader
- Prof. Nic Cheeseman, professor of democracy at Birmingham University, author and newspaper columnist
- Prof. Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University
- Prof. Larabi Jaïdi, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South
- Abdoulie Janneh, former UN under-secretary general
- Prof. Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, former chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission
- Peter Kellner, political analyst and scholar, former chairman of YouGov
- K. Riva Levinson, president and CEO of KRL International, author and columnist
- Prof. Bhekinkosi Moyo, director of the Africa Centre on Philanthropy and Social Investment, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Dr. Monde Muyangwa, director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center
- Dr. Gerard Salole, social anthropologist and independent consultant
- Thomas P. Sheehy, distinguished fellow in the Africa Center of the United States Institute of Peace
IAC special guests:
- Dr. Vera Songwe, UN under-secretary general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa
