Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo

Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo is a Professor of Law and Technology at Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom. Her expertise sits at the intersection of academic scholarship and high-level international policymaking.

She currently serves as the Advisor to the African Union Advisory Group on Artificial Intelligence for Peace, Security and Governance (AI-PSG). She is also the Vice-Chairperson of the African Union Cyber Security Experts Group (AUCSEG) and was as an African Union delegate to the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime negotiations and the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on ICTs Security. She has supported capacity building on cybersecurity, data governance and electronic evidence in AU Member States, as well as the training of judges in various African countries.

She has led in other capacities including as the Chair of the Cybercrime Working Group of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE). She was a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University (2022-2024). She was a member of the International Law Association Steering Committee which delivered a White Paper on Digital Challenges for International Law.

She co-authored Women and Cyber Rights in Africa, which explores the challenges faced by African women in cyberspace, addressing gendered cyber-criminality and inadequate gender-sensitive policies through Afro-feminist theories. She frequently publishes scholarly articles and policy papers on digitalisation, contributing to global debates on digital governance, cybersecurity, and the regulatory frameworks shaping the digital transformation.

In June 2024, she addressed the United Nations Security Council on the debate of ‘International Peace and Security in Cyberspace’.