Ibrahim Idris Haroon

Nigeria

BCL, 2023
St Edmund Hall, Mitchell Scholarship
Funding: Oxford-Hoffmann

Ibrahim is a lawyer from Nigeria. He studied Law at the University of Ilorin and proceeded to the Nigerian Law School where he obtained his qualifying degree to become a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Before Oxford, Ibrahim was an associate at G. Elias, a leading full-service law firm in Nigeria. His practices focus on Commercial Disputes Resolution, Corporate Laws, Projects and technology. Ibrahim is the founder of two startups and a non-profit organisation. His startups, Droitware and Harib, are focused on reforming Africa's justice and legal systems with technology, and the teaching and practice of technology law respectively. With The Droit Foundation, his non-profit organisation, he focuses on advocating for the Right to Technology as an essential in the modern world, especially for remote communities and under-served territories. He plans to return to Nigeria to advance the objects of his organisations across Africa and the globe.