BIO-DATA OF PROFESSOR ABUBAKAR MOMOH, THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF

THE ELECTORAL INSTITUTE

Abubakar Momoh is Professor of Political Science and currently Director-General of The

Electoral Institute of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Until his appointment, Professor Momoh was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the
Lagos State University (LASU).

Momoh obtained his Ph.D in Political Theory and started his Lecturing career in 1988. He has
served on various Boards and scientific committees including those of the Centre for Democracy
and Development (CDD) and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
(CODESRIA). He was Vice President of African Association of Political Science (AAPS). He
was also the National Treasurer, Academic Staff Union of Universities (1991-1995).

Momoh has been a researcher and lecturer at many universities across the world, including being
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland;
Fellow, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden; Visiting
Scholar, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Guest Researcher,
Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden; Guest Lecturer, Summer Course on African Law, Catholic
University, Brussels, Belgium; Senior Fulbright Scholar, James Coleman African Studies Centre,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Guest Lecturer, African and African-American
Studies Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; Visiting Researcher and
Tutor, Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG), King’s College, University of
London; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, International Development Centre, Open
University, Milton Keynes, England, Post Graduate Research Supervisor, Bielefeld University,
Bielefeld, German, among others.

Momoh has served as External Examiner to the University of Lagos, University of Ibadan and
University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. He has also been External Examiner to the Nigerian
Defence College (NDC) since 2005.

Momoh has also served on several government technical committees including being member
and coordinator of “Foreign Policy” Subcommittee of Federal Republic of Nigeria “Vision
20:20” Technical Committee; he was also a member of the team that drafted the policy on
“Peace Support Operations (PSOS) for the Federal Government.

Professor Momoh has also been on several technical teams of the African Union Commission
(AUC), and most recently was involved in designing the African Governance Architecture
(AGA) and Elections Bench-marking for the African Union. He has also served as election
Observer to several African countries on behalf of ECOWAS and African Union. He has also
served as Election Observer to some European countries.