Efosa Enoma Hillary is currently in the final phase of his advanced research MA studies at the International Centre for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, Germany, where he studies Global Political Economics and Development. His core research areas focus on core international development issues and global geopolitical tensions, Efosa is passionate about global cross-cutting issues on social accountability, social innovation and digitisation policy, humanitarian policy and international trade value chain analysis.

Apart from his academic research focus he has over 4 years of experience in international development work and has worked with foremost INGOs Oxfam-Novib working on case management projects for educational and skills training for local beneficiaries and the Norwegian Refugee Council where he contributed to ensuring rigorous data assurance, cleaning, and reportage to inform more empirical learning on large humanitarian data sets. This project encompasses 140 projects on economic inclusion, project evaluation and accountability learning in over 40 countries.

He recently founded Iwina Lab, a Nigerian social impact lab directed towards employing a diverse range of Sustainable and Innovative Global Standards, which can enable South-South Technical cooperation in the most needed international value chain optimization of Africa Agro Commodities Markets. He is also an amateur lead guitarist and currently also freelance for a corporate German NGO Educat.