Profile

Engobo is an active researcher, with an international reputation, in environmental law and policy broadly defined, particularly within the context of the regulation and governance of the extractives industry in Africa. She has a keen interest in capacity building, and policy development both within and outside academia, often working with civil society groups, intergovernmental organisations, governments and their agencies. She recently completed a four year-long project as a member of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission, which published its report in May 2023: An Environmental Genocide: The Human and Environmental cost of Big Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria. She holds various editorial board membership of academic journals, including being the founding Managing Editor of the Nigeria Yearbook of international Law (Springer).

Professor Emeseh obtained her PhD from the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee. She graduated with first class from the Nigeria Law School and Distinction from the University of Wales Cardiff. She is a former British Council Chevening Scholar, and a Ford Foundation (IFP) doctoral fellow. Prior to her academic career, she practiced as a barrister and solicitor in Nigeria.