Alagaw Ababu Kifle is a research fellow and head of fellowship at the African Leadership Centre, Nairobi Kenya. Alagaw holds BA degree in Political Science and International Relations from Addis Ababa University and two MA degrees in Peace and Conflict Studies and Conflict Security and Development (distinction) from Addis Ababa University-University for Peace, and King`s College London, respectively. Alagaw is the 2023 first ever Joint PhD graduate of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and King`s College London in Leadership and Security Studies. Alagaw has over ten years of teaching and research experiences, and has widely published both academic and policy-oriented works. His areas of research and publication traverse leadership and the formation of developmental coalitions, political settlement, and peace building conversations in Africa, International Financial Institutions, and their engagement on fragile and conflict affected African states, Ad hoc security arrangements and peace building in Africa, and localized conflicts and statebuilding in Africa. Alagaw is a 2022-2023 APN Individual Research Fellow.