| citizenship = [[Ghanaians|Ghanaian]]
| citizenship = [[Ghanaians|Ghanaian]]
| education = [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]
| education = [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]
| alma_mater = [[La Trobe University]]; [[School of Oriental and African Studies]];[[University of Ghana]]
| alma_mater = [[La Trobe University]] [[ ]][[University of Ghana]]
| employer = [[King’s College London]]
| employer = [[King’s College London]]
| awards = [[UK Research and Innovation|UKRI]] Future Leaders Fellowship (2025); Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Researcher Award (2020)
| awards = [[UK Research and Innovation|UKRI]] Future Leaders Fellowship (2025); Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Researcher Award (2020)
Ghanaian academic
Clement Sefa-Nyarko (born December 1977)[citation needed], is a Ghanaian academic and lecturer in security, development and leadership with the African Leadership Centre at King’s College London.[1]
Sefa-Nyarko was one of 77 early-career researchers awarded the 2025 Future Leaders Fellowship by UKRI.[2][3] Two other King’s College London researchers, Timothy Neate and Sarah Morgan, were also selected for the £120 million interdisciplinary research scheme.[2][3]
Early Life and education
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Born in Ghana in December 1977, Sefa-Nyarko studied sociology and religious studies at the University of Ghana earning a BA and an MA in related disciplines.[4] He later completed an MA in Conflict, Security and Development at King’s College London and a doctoral degree at La Trobe University in Australia critically appraising the natural resource curse discourse through a political theory lens.[4]
Sefa-Nyarko’s work focuses on research design, political methodology and natural resource governance, with an emphasis on energy transition and climate-related policy in Africa and Australia.[4]
He has conducted research in Ghana, Kenya, South Sudan and Nigeria, and has provided analysis for international media outlets such as the BBC and The Ghanaian Chronicle.[1][5][6]
His academic work includes publications on institutional design, natural resource governance and political accountability in journals such as Energy Research & Social Science, Third World Quarterly and African Evaluation Journal. One of his publications (2020) received the Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Researcher Award at La Trobe University.[1][7]
Sefa-Nyarko is a lecturer at the African Leadership Centre (ALC), King’s College London, where he teaches and conducts research on resource governance and energy transitions.[1][4] He is also an alumnus of the ALC, which maintains a continental network of fellows and alumni working on security, development and leadership in Africa.[8]
In September 2025, the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced that he was among 77 recipients of the Future Leaders Fellowship, a £120 million programme supporting interdisciplinary research across health, energy, technology, social sciences and creative fields.[2]
Selected publications
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Sefa-Nyarko, Clement (2024). “Ghana’s National Energy Transition Framework: Domestic aspirations and mistrust in international relations complicate ‘justice and equity’“. Energy Research & Social Science. 110 103465. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103465.
Sefa-Nyarko, Clement (2024). “The crisis of leadership in minerals governance in Ghana: Could process leadership fill the void?”. The Extractive Industries and Society. 18 101470. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2024.101470.
Sefa-Nyarko, Clement; Agbe, E.; Afram, A.; Hodor, R.; Ofori-Davis, L.; Bediako, A.; Owusu, E. A. (2024). “Unpacking locally led research and evaluation through the lens of collaborative autoethnography”. African Evaluation Journal. 12 (2): 1–14. doi:10.4102/aej.v12i2.730.
Sefa-Nyarko, Clement (2022). “Institutional design of Ghana and the Fourth Republic: On the checks and balances between the state and society”. Third World Quarterly. 43 (8): 2006–2224. doi:10.1080/01436597.2022.2079487.
Sefa-Nyarko, Clement; Okafor-Yarwood, Ifesinachi; Boadu, Emmanuel S. (2021). “Petroleum revenue management in Ghana: How does the right to information law promote transparency, accountability and monitoring of the annual budget funding amount?”. The Extractive Industries and Society. 8 (3) 100957. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2021.100957.
Sefa-Nyarko, Clement (2022). “The liminality of institutional design of petroleum governance in Ghana: Political will, political settlements and contentions as defining factors”. Energy Research & Social Science. 92 102799. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102799.
Sefa-Nyarko, Clement (2020). “Ethnicity in electoral politics in Ghana: Colonial legacies and the Constitution as determinants”. Critical Sociology. doi:10.1177/0896920520943263.
Sefa-Nyarko, Clement (2016). “Civil war in South Sudan: Is it a reflection of historical secessionist and natural resource wars in “Greater Sudan”?”. African Security. 9 (3): 188–210. doi:10.1080/19392206.2016.1208476.
