Dennis Oghenerobor Agelebe was an Associate Professor of Law at Jindal Global University, India, currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Open Africa Innovation Research Network in the Center for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa, Canada, a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Law Centre of the University of Cologne and a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the Centre in Germany. He is also an Associate Member of the prestigious think-tank research centre, the Global South Studies Centre of the University of Cologne.
He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from the University of Calabar, Nigeria, and an LLM in International Human Rights Law and Environmental Protection from Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic. He also earned a Doctorate in Law, specialising in Environment and Trade Law, from the University of Cologne. Besides the Czech Republic and Germany, he has research experience in New Zealand as a University of Canterbury Scholar and in India as a DAAD visiting scholar. Before going into academia, after his call to the Nigerian Bar as barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he practised as a lawyer at different times in Abuja, Nigeria. In 2020, he led the UNDP/GEF-funded project for de-risking renewable energy investment in interconnected mini-grids in Nigeria while working as a Senior Fellow with SD Strategies in Berlin.
Expert in African law, he convened the first African Environmental Law Conference in the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Cologne and the lecture series on Climate Ethics in Africa. He is a recipient of several research scholar awards, including the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Scholars Award. He is also an editor for the International Journal for Health, Education, and Environment and has published academic research papers in several international journals. His research interests include emerging technology, sustainable development, renewable energy investment, environmentally friendly trade practices, and foreign direct investment with environmental ethics in developing countries.