Ugochukwu Ezeh
Nigeria
Law (MPhil), 2017
St Cross College, Oxford
Funding: Hoffmann
Ugochukwu Ezeh is currently a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford. His research interests lie at the intersection of Comparative Public Law, Critical Security Studies, and Constitutional Theory.
He holds an MPhil in Law and BCL (as a Weidenfeld-Oxford scholar) and an LLB degree, from the University of Lagos. He has worked as a Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, and as an Oxford Human Rights Hub Traveling Research Fellow (in Comparative Public Law) at Rhodes University, South Africa. Ugo was a speaker at the 2020 Global Roundtable of the International Association of Constitutional Law.
Ugo has worked on research projects commissioned by organisations such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom. He interned for the World Economic Forum on Africa in 2014, and also worked as an associate with Simmons Cooper Partners in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ugo seeks to foster greater respect for human rights, promote transparency and accountability in government, and help tackle some of the developmental challenges confronting our world today.
