Engobo Emeseh, LLB, LLM, MSc (Econ), PhD, PGCTHE, FHEA

Engobo Emeseh is a professor of Law and Head of the School of Law, University of Bradford. A seasoned academic with extensive experience in higher education both within and outside the UK.  In 2020, she  was recognised as one of only a few female black professors in the UK in a project titled Phenomenal Women. Her area of expertise is around environmental law and policy broadly defined, particularly within the context of the regulation and governance of the extractives industry in Africa. She holds various editorial board membership of academic journals, including being the founding Managing Editor of the Nigeria Yearbook of international Law (Springer).

Professor Emeseh has a keen interest in capacity building, and policy development both within and outside academia, often working with civil society groups, intergovernmental organisations, governments and their agencies. This includes UNECA IDEP on minerals law and policy (negotiations) in Africa, the African Capacity Building Foundation on natural resources governance and management, Oxfam Mozambique on Climate Change policy, and African Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (AfCoP) on Governance and Social Responsibility in Natural Resources Exploitation. She was a member of an international team that produced a Draft Declaration on Climate Change and Human Rights (on behalf of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and Environment), to feed into the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris 2015. She is currently a member of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission chaired by the  immediate past Archbishop of York Lord John Sentamu which recently (May 2023) published its report: An Environmental Genocide: The human and environmental cost of Big Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria

Professor Emeseh obtained her PhD from the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee. She graduated with first class from the Nigeria Law School and Distinction from the University of Wales Cardiff. She is a former British Council Chevening Scholar, and a Ford Foundation (IFP) doctoral fellow. Prior to her academic career, she practiced as a barrister and solicitor in Nigeria.