Dr. Clement Sefa‑Nyarko is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Lecturer in Security, Development and Leadership in Africa at King’s College London. He has extensive experience as an international development practitioner, having worked across Africa and the Asia-Pacific on issues of governance, natural resources, and social policy.
His research focuses on critical minerals governance, theories of the state, environmental and social justice, leadership, and security. Dr Sefa‑Nyarko has designed and led multi‑country research and evaluation programmes in Ghana, Kenya, South Sudan and Nigeria, combining methodological innovation with participatory and community‑centred approaches.
His UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, ‘Justice in Critical Minerals Governance and Energy Transitions’, pioneers Hermeneutical Ethnography to examine how communities experience justice in mineral‑rich regions and to support more equitable governance of energy transitions.
He has produced a wide range of publications, policy briefs and public analyses, contributing to debates on extractive politics, natural resource governance, and state–society relations in Africa. His work continues to shape thinking on bottom‑up approaches to justice, leadership, and sustainable development.
