Abdourahamane Idrissa

I am a Nigerién political scientist, born and brought up in Niger. I studied Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Dakar, in Senegal, before moving to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship. I obtained a PhD from the University of Florida in 2009. Postdoctoral work at the Universities of Oxford and Princeton, as a Global Leader Fellow (2^nd Cohort), have helped me to develop expertise in the political economy of West Africa. This is supported by my earlier focus on African democratization, political Islam and political theory. I have published several book chapters and journal articles in both English and French, primarily on Niger and the Sahelian region. I am currently working on West African regionalism, security governance and political Islam. I am based in Niamey, where in 2014 I established a think tank on political economy and governance in the Sahel and West Africa.