Professor ¡®Funmi Olonisakin is Vice-President and Vice-Principal International and Professor of Security, Leadership and Development, at King¡¯s College London.
She was founding Director of the African Leadership Centre (ALC), which aims to build the next generation of African scholars and analysts generating cutting-edge knowledge for security and development in Africa, and Director of the Conflict, Security, and Development Group (CSDG) at King¡¯s College London from 2003 to 2013. She previously worked in the Office of the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict.
In 2015, Prof. Olonisakin was appointed by UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon as one of seven members of the Advisory Group of Experts (AGE) on the Review of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture. She also is a member of the Advisory Group of Experts for the UN Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security; a board member of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; and Chair of the International Advisory Council of the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (TMALI).
In 2016, the University of Pretoria appointed her as an Extra-Ordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences in 2016.