Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae

Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae (born 25 May 1960) is a Nigerian comparative politics professor and the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), the country's think tank on foreign policy and international affairs.

Education
Between 1965 to 1969, he attended Christ Anglican Primary School in Benin City, Nigeria. Between 1970 and 1974, he attended Egbosa Anglican Grammar School, and from 1974 to 1976, he attended Edo College in Benin City. He received his Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 1979, his Master of Science in Political Science in 1981, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science in 1986, all from the University of Ibadan.

Career
He was Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Okada, Nigeria's finest private university, for a record fourteen years (2004 to 2018). He was a tenured Professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan. Professor Osaghae holds the 2019 Claude Ake Chair at Uppsala University in Sweden and is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies, STIAS. He served as the Van Zyl Slabbert Professor of Politics and Sociology at the University of Cape Town in 2017 and as the Emeka Anyaoku Visiting Chair of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London in 2014. In April 2014, his Anyaoku Chair Inaugural Lecture, A State of Our Own: Second Independence, Federalism, and the Decolonization of the State in Africa, became the University of London's first inaugural lecture by a Nigerian.

He was a Rockefeller 'Reflections on Development' Fellow (1989/90) and a MacArthur Fellow. Professor Osaghae was the Chair of the Panel on Quality Assurance Assessment at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa from 2011 to 2012, and he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Consortium for Development Partnerships, a successful model of North-South intellectual collaboration that included institutions from North America, Europe, and Africa between 2005 and 2012. He is a member of numerous learned societies and sits on the editorial boards of several prestigious social science journals. Professor Osaghae has published widely in books and journals on ethnicity, federalism, governance, and state politics, and has attended over 300 conferences, workshops, and seminars in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is married to Veronica Amen (née Jatto), with whom he has children and grandchildren. The Bishop of Benin Diocese (Anglican Communion), Rt. Rev. P.O.J. Imasuen, ordained him as a Reverend of the Anglican Church in December 2008.

Personal life
He is married to Veronica Amen Osaghae, and has four children.

Membership
He is a member of the South African Political Studies Association, the Nigerian Political Science Association, the Association of African Political Scientists, the Ethnic Studies Network (Northern Ireland), the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Educators Program (USA), the Institute for Security Studies (South Africa), and the Africa Institute of South Africa.