Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie
Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie is Professor of Development. He joined the Department of Agricultural extension and Rural development since 2006. Victor is a distinguished academic, researcher, and leader with a broad range of international and local experiences in leadership, teaching, mentoring, and academic administration. He holds a joint PhD in Development of the University of the prestigious Wisconsin-Madison, USA, an M.Phil(Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology) as well as a Bachelor of Agriculture (Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology) Second Class Honors, Upper Division of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. His research and administrative leadership traverse the continents of Africa, Europe and America. Victor is the Global Fellow of the Center for Human Right and Humanitarian Studies, Brown University, USA. He was the fellow of the World Academy of Sciences Italy, a postdoctoral fellow at institutions such as the University of the Free State and North West University in South Africa as well as a laureate of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal. Victor has been a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany; the International Social Science Council, France, the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes, Brown University, USA; and at the International Research Exchange Board, Washington DC, USA as well as an international visiting scholar at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA as well as at the University of Florida Gainesville, Florida USA. He was a and is an alumnus of the African Peacebuilding Network, a program of the Social Science Research Council, USA. He was a Carnegie fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York USA .
He has research interests address issues in areas such as rural development, gender, agriculture, and the political economy of food and water security in developing countries, particularly in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. His research has been supported by many grant funding institutions and agencies such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; the United Nations African Institute of Economic Development and Planning, Dakar, Senegal, World Council of Social Sciences, France & Global Change System for Analysis, Research &Training, USA; Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) New York, USA; Brown International Advance Research Institute Alumnus, Brown University, USA ; Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal; National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences and the South African BRICS Think Tank, South Africa ;Tertiary Education Training Fund, Nigeria; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Medical Research Council, the UK; Center for Advance Research Training in Africa(CARTA): and a partnership of the National Research Foundation South Africa, Sweden International Development Agency Sweden, SGCI, IDRC, DFID, UKRI, &FRQ. He also reviews grants for some funding agencies across the globe and has over one hundred publications.
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