Jennifer Aghaji
Communications Specialist

Profile

Biography

Jennifer is a Communications Specialist at SEI York and has a wealth of experience acquired over a decade of working in the development sector. She will be working with our researchers on the INGENIOUS and Peatlands projects.

She has worked in Nigeria and Ethiopia with international development organizations including the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Media Rights Agenda, USAID projects with Chemonics Inc., and Save the Children. In the latter, she was pivotal in developing and implementing a national strategy for communication and continuity during the Covid-19 pandemic. She also served on the Nigerian Federal Government Freedom of Information Act Technical Committee in 2012, where she worked on the 2013 Guidelines on the Implementation of the 2011 Freedom of Information Act for Ministries, departments, and agencies.

Jennifer was an Oxford-Annenberg Media Fellow (2016) and has contributed to various media reports, co-edited several newsletters, and assisted the editorial board of the African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Science. This builds on expertise developed through her Masters in International Law and Diplomacy (University of Lagos) and her BA in Political Science (University of Ibadan).