Biography
Dr Hoffmann is an associate fellow of the Africa programme and project consultant for the programme’s Social Norms and Accountable Governance (SNAG) project.
She is also an honorary senior fellow of the EverGreening Global Alliance and a member of the International Advisory Board of SOS SAHEL. She was a technical advisor on food security and agricultural policy to the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).
Her research focuses on informal institutions, regional integration, Nigeria’s political history, gender, food security and trade. As project consultant for the Africa programme’s SNAG project, she is currently involved in researching informal institutions, corruption and governance in Nigeria.
Leena has worked as an investigator for Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Commission and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
She received her doctorate in African Studies from the University of Birmingham, MA in International Relations from the University of Lancaster and BSc. in Sociology from the University of Jos, Nigeria.
Past experience
| 2016 - 2020 | Technical adviser to the Executive Secretariat of the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) Oaugadougou |
| 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 |
