Emmanuel Sulle

Emmanuel Sulle is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Aga Khan University’s Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Centre in Tanzania. He is a leading scholar in African agrarian studies and a contributor to the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa. He holds a PhD in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies from the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and a Master’s degree in Public Policy, specializing in Environmental Policy, from the University of Maryland (USA). His academic achievements include awards such as the Harvard University Doctoral Student Fellowship and the CODESRIA Doctoral Grant. Sulle currently holds a Global Faculty position at the University of Cologne (Germany), serves as an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University (Canada), and is a Research Fellow at the University of the Western Cape. Before joining AKU, he worked at the University of the Western Cape, where he led multidisciplinary research teams on complex projects across Eastern, Southern, Western, and Northern Africa. These include large-scale studies on women’s land rights in seven countries and development corridors in four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. His current research focuses on climate change, sustainable agriculture and food systems, policy analysis, the green economy, biodiversity, land tenure, and agrarian transformation in Africa