Dr. Wale Osofisan

Wale Osofisan is the senior director of the Governance Technical Unit at the International Rescue Committee (IRC).  He leads the unit’s team of directors, senior advisers, technical advisers, and specialists overseeing program support to 40 IRC country offices. Wale has over two decades of professional experience researching and working on humanitarian, development, conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and the intersection between climate change, conflict, and displacement.

Before joining the IRC, he worked with Plan UK, HelpAge International UK, and UNDP Nigeria in various roles from technical assistance to research, policy influencing, and advocacy. Wale holds a PhD in Post-war Recovery Studies from the Department of Politics, University of York, UK, and a master’s degree in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies from the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a member of the editorial board Journal on Conflict Transformation and Security and a member of the Advisory Board, Department of Government, University of Essex, UK.