Experience

Bayero University, Kano

• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• • Mar 2023 - Present

• • Oct 2021 - Present

• • Oct 2018 - Present



Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria

• Kano

• Associate Professor

  • Apr 2014 - Present

  Commission Member: IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Appointed December 2018. Member of Roster of Experts– of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)  Environmental Advocate for Ecosystem Restoration and Conservation of Trees on Abuja-Kano Dual Carriage Way Rehabilitation project by the Julius Berger Nigeria Plc. 2015-2018 – Expert/Lead Author - Intergovernmental Platform for Science and Policy for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – IPBES Chartered Town Planner (No. 107197), Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), London, United Kingdom. 2018 - Contributor, the UN Habitat Guiding Principles for Urban-Rural Linkages to Advance Integrated Territorial Development. 2014 - World Social Science Fellow (Sustainable Urbanisation), appointed by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) 2013--Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project (Future Earth), (http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org). Director West Africa Node, Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) affiliates with Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York . City Contact Person for PhD Class on Cities and Climate Change for the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Boston, Focal point /coordinator for Bayero University’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning/UNI, the partnership between UN-Habitat and universities Member of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Accreditation Panel for Urban and Regional Planning programmes at University of Lagos, Akoka and Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, November 2019.  Chapter Scientist, (Chapter 4: Land Degradation) IPCC Special Report on climate change and land, Team Member, Global Land Programme (GLP) https://glp.earth/ Lead Author, Special Report on SDG 11 and Land Restoration Chapter. Appointed by International Resource Panel of the UN Environment (2018). Show less



Royal Town Planning Institute

• United Kingdom
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chartered Town Planner

  • Feb 2020 - Present



Academia.edu

• • 2015 - 2016

• • 2015 - 2016



World Bank Institue

• course participant

  • 2014 - 2014

  Street adresing Street adresing



Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

• Malaysia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD

  • 2012 - 2014

  Teaching undergraduate and graduate students, leading science and policy interface in urban and environmental change, doing collaborative research with co-investigators from different national, regional, international research institutions and organisations Teaching undergraduate and graduate students, leading science and policy interface in urban and environmental change, doing collaborative research with co-investigators from different national, regional, international research institutions and organisations



Earth System Governance Project

• researcher

  • 2010 - 2012

  Research Fellow Research Fellow