Ayansina Ayanlade

Ayansina Ayanlade is a Research Fellow in Department of International Relations (INTR). Before joining the CEU, he was Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and as a researcher in University of Vienna, Austria. He holds a PhD degree of  King’s College London, University of London, UK.  I have a wide range of academic experience in Nigeria, Kenya,  the USA, Norway, Austria and the United Kingdom, and have worked at the highest levels of professional politics and policy. He has engaged and contributed to research in the areas of climate change impacts assessment, adaptation options and mitigation strategic studies in Africa. His research interest in aspects of the Anthropocene, focusing on critical issues on climate change ; understanding of observed climate change impacts, indigenous and local knowledge of climate change and the influence of both national and international climate change negotiations; and application of Remote Sensing and GIS to land-atmospheric interactions.

He participated as Lead Author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, for the 6th Assessment Report (AR6) in chapter 9: Africa. He contributed considerably to some sections of the AR6: As Lead author and Cross-Chapter (CC) Author. In Chapter 9. He contributed also to the Vulnerability Synthesis (CH 9) and Food Systems sections (CH 9). As CC Author, he contributed on the role of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge in understanding and adapting to climate change (CH 18);  gender, climate justice and transformative pathways (CH 18); Climate change and  COVID-19 (CH 7);  and food, fibre, and other ecosystem products (CH 5).

He has successfully led several research projects on climate change impacts assessments, adaptation options and mitigation strategic studies in Africa.  He has a long and engaging experience in climate change and explores spatiotemporal changes in climate and how to enhance sensitivities to climate change impacts and adaptive capacities of smallholder farmers through climate-smart agriculture in Africa. He is an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports, Nature.