Biography
Dr Leena Koni Hoffmann is an Associate Fellow in the Africa Programme at Chatham House and was the lead researcher for the Social Norms and Accountable Governance (SNAG) project (2015-25).
An anti‑corruption researcher, Leena’s current work focuses on transnational corruption and on how norms and networks shape corruption dynamics and public accountability.
She began her career as an investigator at Nigeria’s anti‑corruption agency, and has over 15 years’ experience as a research consultant and policy adviser, including roles as a Marie Curie research fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) from 2013 to 2015 and technical adviser on food security and agricultural policy to Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) from 2016 to 2020.
Leena is co-founder and President of Luxembourg for Transparency (L4T), a nonprofit organisation and serves on the International Council of Transparency International. She has consulted for the OECD, World Bank, US State Department, WFP, UK FCDO and the MacArthur Foundation.
She holds a PhD in African Studies from the University of Birmingham, an MA in International Relations from Lancaster University and a BSc in Sociology from the University of Jos.
Past experience
| 2016 - 2020 | Technical adviser to the Executive Secretariat of the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
| 2015 - present | Associate fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House |
| 2015-17 | Research consultant, Sahel and West África Club Secretariat, WAF Programme 2015-16, Paris |
| 2013-15 | Marie Curie research fellow, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Luxembourg |
| 2013 | ERANDA junior research fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House |
| 2005-07 | Postgraduate teaching assistant, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham |
| 2001-03 | Assistant superintendent of investigation, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Nigeria |
