Akingbolahan Adeniran is a Non-Resident Fellow at the NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) and a Regional Coordinator in the Secretariat of the African Alliance for People-Centered Justice.
He provides technical support to this coalition of governmental, non-governmental, and intergovernmental organizations advancing the understanding and use of people-centered justice across Africa.
Previously, he served on a task team advising the Justice Action Coalition on its structure to accelerate the global delivery of people-centered justice and progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16. He also served as a subnational attorney-general and a national rule of law advisor in Nigeria. In these roles, he developed and supported people-centered justice initiatives to address gender-based violence, improve access to justice for people with limited financial means and suspects in detention, and expand government-established, community-based alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services.
He is a co-author of The Principles and Opportunities for People-Centered Justice in Africa, and From Justice for the Few to Justice for All: A model for high-ambition action to deliver the SDGs. He graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Lagos and holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.