Alfred Oduro

Alfred Oduro is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He specializes in African civil society, NGO membership in international organisations, global governance, pan-African norms, and politics of the African Union. As a former fellow of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), He has had the international experience of working closely on a number of research projects in Africa with renowned scholars from the field of IR. His dissertation project focuses on addressing the question of why some African NGOs pursue membership in international organizations such as the UN while overlooking their own regional IOs such as the African Union (AU). He is also a research coordinator for the NGO Data and GRNDS (Global Register of NonProfit Data Sources) project, helping to understand how global civil society organizations are regulated in their respective states.