Obiozo Ukpabi joined PLAAS in July 2008 as part of the Connecting Research and Policy Making on Land, Fisheries and Poverty in South Africa programme. She will work with PLAAS researchers and key role players in the relevant sectors (researchers from other universities and research organizations, policy makers, practitioners, and civil society-based advocacy groups) to enable more fruitful engagement and encourage real dialogue between them.

Obiozo holds an MA in Economic and Social History from the University of Amsterdam and an MPhil in Political Studies from UCT. She was a project manager for the African Studies Centre in Leiden and for a political and cultural centre called De Balie in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She has also worked as a freelance journalist in Nigeria and The Netherlands.