I am an Associate Professor of Environmental Forestry at the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN); I am also the Chief Operating Officer at Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium (GET) from 2017 till date. GET comprises a pan-African group of concerned academics and policymakers in collaboration with international partners who are focused on reducing Africa’s vulnerability to biosecurity threats. I was a Research Officer at the African Technology and Policy Studies Network (ATPS) in Nairobi, Kenya. I am a scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, USA, and a post-doctoral scholar at the West Africa Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Competency Centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.