Dr Adeoti Dipeolu

Adeoti Dipeolu is a Research Associate at the African Leadership Centre (ALC), King’s College London. She is also the coordinator of the ALC’s Leading Practitioners Programme, Leading Feminist Voices in Africa project, and the African Global Leaders Engagement Series. 

Adeoti is an experienced researcher with a specialised interest in diaspora and transnational actors, youth and women’s rights issues within the security – development and policy nexus. Her recently completed PhD thesis is titled: For Peace and For Motherland: The US Liberian Diaspora in the Politics of Leadership and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding.

She has also contributed to several organisation wide research projects including an International Development Research Centre (IDRC) funded the project, ‘Reframing Narratives of State-building and Peacebuilding in Africa'; a Humanitarian Dialogue Centre funded joint research project on Ethiopian diaspora actors in conflict, amongst others. She has, in addition, contributed to other research work on gender and youth for several international organisations.  

Adeoti has good knowledge of and significant experience in programme coordination.

She holds a PhD in Leadership Studies with Reference to Security and Development from King's College London, and an MA in Public Policy from the University of East Anglia.