User:Saidu Ahmed Enagi

Saidu Ahmed Enagi, (born, 27 March, 1987) is from Enagi, Edati Local Government, Niger State, North-Central Geo-political Zone, Nigeria.

He is a scholar and development policy strategist with a passion for international development. Saidu is the Deputy Coordinator Africa, for CNRJ International, an international affairs research organization with headquarters in Paris, France. He is a member, Young Leaders Commission, Geneva, Switzerland. West Africa Chapter Youth Envoy for Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP). He is also a Member, International Youth Diplomacy League, Saint- Petersburg, Russia. Global Youth Ambassador ( 2017-2018) at TheirWorld, London, UK.

Saidu has author two books and more than forty (40) articles/ several Policy Research Papers, his policy papers on United Nations Post-2015 SDGs has recieved commendation from OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Viena, Austria. His works include, " The Power of Infrastructure: How the Post-2015 Architecture of Development Assistant Will Shape the Future of African Economies(2017), Post-2015 SDGs and Economic Recession in Nigeria: Political Thoughts and Development Studies (2017), Why Africa is Still Poor (2015).

He has also deliver acclaimed papers in both national and international conferences, he was a delegate to the First National Conference of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Abuja, 2010.

He was interviewed by Vanguard Newspaper in 2010 and Daily Trust Newspaper in 2018.

Co-author of The Amman Youth Declaration that was later adopted by the United Nations Security Council as UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2250.

Saidu has met officially with global leaders, Parliamentarians and policy makers from the World Bank, UK-DFID, IMF, UNDP, International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nations Human Right, United Nations AIDs, IRC- United States Embassy, Kampala, Uganda.

He holds a Bachelors Degree in Development Studies (specializing in International Development & Political Economy), from Stafford University, Uganda. He also earned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University edX Certificate of Achievement in Financing for Development from the World Bank Group in 2017.