Bonny Ibhawoh is the Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Expert-Rapporteur, United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, UN-OHCHR and Founding Director, Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice Bonny Ibhawoh earned his MA in History from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and a Ph.D. in History Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada.
His doctoral dissertation explored the tensions in imperial and anti-colonial discourses of human rights in Africa.
He was a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York,[1] Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
[2][3] Bonny Ibhawoh is currently the Vice Provost (International Affairs) and professor of Global Human Rights and African Studies at McMaster University.
Bonny Ibhawoh has published several books, academic journals and conference papers on global human rights, imperialism, peace and conflicts in top-tier publications.