Samuel Adeyanju

Samuel Adeyanju is a Vanier Scholar at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. He specializes in the political ecology of natural resource management in Africa. His doctoral research investigates the socio-political dimensions of natural resources management policies and programs on livelihoods and poverty alleviation in Ghana. Prior to starting his PhD, Samuel interned at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization HQ in Rome, Italy. He holds a Master’s degree in Forestry from UBC and his thesis on the preservation of sacred forests for biodiversity conservation in Southwest Nigeria was featured in Forbes (https://bit.ly/3K0ek6S). He was a Mastercard Foundation Scholar from 2017-2020 at UBC. He holds a First-Class Bachelor's degree in Forestry & Wood Technology from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Samuel has over four years of experience in climate change advocacy and has participated at high-level UN processes such as UNFCCC COP23, (Bonn, Germany 2017), and the 1st UN Secretary-General Youth Climate Summit (New York 2019). He currently serves on the Advisory Group of the Commonwealth Forestry Association, the United Kingdom.