Professor Engobo Emeseh

Professor Engobo Emeseh

Professor Engobo Emeseh is a leading scholar of environmental and energy law. Professor Engobo is currently a Professor of Environmental and Energy Law and Head of the Department of Law and Criminology at the University of Aberystwyth University. A distinguished academic with extensive experience in higher education within and outside the United Kingdom, she was featured in the 2020 Phenomenal Women project celebrating the contributions of Black women professors in UK academia. Professor Emeseh holds a PhD from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee; an LLM (Distinction) from the University of Wales, Cardiff; an LLB; and a First-Class qualification from the Nigerian Law School. She is a former British Council Chevening Scholar and Ford Foundation (IFP) Doctoral Fellow and is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Her scholarship focuses on environmental law and policy, particularly environmental regulation and enforcement, environmental justice, corporate social responsibility, and governance of the extractive industries in Africa. She is widely published, has presented at major international fora, and holds several editorial board roles, including serving as the Founding Managing Editor of the Nigeria Yearbook of International Law (Springer). Professor Emeseh is actively engaged in capacity building and policy development across Africa and globally. She has worked with a wide range of organisations, including UNECA IDEP on minerals law and policy, the African Capacity Building Foundation on natural resource governance, Oxfam Mozambique on climate change policy, and the African Community of Practice (AfCoP) on governance and social responsibility. She was part of the international drafting team for the Declaration on Climate Change and Human Rights, submitted to the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (2015). She currently serves on the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission, chaired by Lord John Sentamu, which released its landmark 2023 report An Environmental Genocide. Her professional memberships include the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA), the Society of Legal Scholars, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the UK Environmental Law Association, the Nigerian Bar Association, and the Editorial Board of the NIALS Journal of Natural Resources, Energy and International Waters Law.