Maruf Sanni

Maruf Sanni is a Deputy Director of Research at the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), an agency of the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Nigeria. He has a PhD in Public Policy from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. His research examines economic activities at the intersection of technological change and environmental sustainability. Specifically, his field of research includes low-carbon innovation development pathways, climate-resilient development and climate change policy. He served as a research fellow at the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), Accra, Ghana and International Centre for Science and High Technology of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Trieste, Italy (ICS-UNIDO). He has also worked as home-based intern with the United Nations Development Program, Climate Change Adaptation Facility. He recently completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European Institute of Economics and the Environment (EIEE), Milan, Italy. He is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions National Contact Point for Nigeria under Horizon Europe projects. He is currently the head, Technology Management Education and Training Department at NACETEM.