Emmanuel is a multidisciplinary environment, social and legal researcher, with a personal and professional passion sustainable development research and practice in Africa. His recent research, including working on the £3.3 million DFID/ESRC funded “Urban Africa Risk Knowledge”, and the £7.2 million GCRF funded “Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality” have focused on studying the interplay of environmental and planning legislation, policies and informal practices, and their effect on social vulnerabilities and inequalities, disaster risk, climate adaptation and resilience in low income countries. As well as exploring innovative participatory processes for policy formulation and implementation. Emmanuel has significant in-country research and advisory experience in a number of African countries including Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and The Gambia working closely with community groups, researchers, higher education institutions, and various levels of decision-makers to explore innovate ways of collaborative learning about urbanization and sustainable development processes.

Lecturer in Development Planning for Diversity at UCL with 15+ years experience of working with international NGOs around diversity and inclusion in community development. Research interests in urban risk, resilience, housing, displacement, and intersectional approaches to participatory urban development.

I have worked for over 25 years in public policy-making, starting in the US inside the US House of Representatives with Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly and later in Brussels at the European Parliament when I worked for Sir Ken Collins, MEP and Chairman of the Environment and Public Health Committee. In the US Congress, I helped design policy innovation for inner city families through the Freedom from Want Act. For the European Parliament, I co-designed policy innovation on drinking water, the water framework and public health. I earned a Masters in the Management of Sustainable Development from Erasmus University and then became a senior policy adviser (law firm Hammond Suddards and public affairs firm Fleishman-Hillard) and guest lecturer on decision-making in the EU (United Business Institutes, Erasmus University, College of Europe at Bruge and the Missouri School of Journalism). While doing my PhD at the University of Surrey on public policy-making in Greece under external influence, I lectured as adjunct professor with the Hellenic American University. I have also worked as a lead trainer for Pinnacle PR in Europe and the Middle East preparing hundreds of professionals for speeches and media interviews, strategic public affairs & advocacy campaigns. Finalizing doctoral research on how the IMF influenced national decision-making in Greece on a health policy called "e-prescription". Looking forward to leveraging my US and EU policy-making experience.

I am a lecturer in public policy at the University of Tasmania, Australia, specialising in NGOs and private governance.