Clement Sefa-Nyarko

Clement Sefa-Nyarko, is a Ghanaian academic and lecturer in security, development and leadership with the African Leadership Centre at King's College London.
Sefa-Nyarko was one of 77 early-career researchers awarded the 2025 Future Leaders Fellowship by UKRI. Two other King's College London researchers, Timothy Neate and Sarah Morgan, were also selected for the £120 million interdisciplinary research scheme.

Early Life and education

Born in Ghana in December 1977, Sefa-Nyarko studied sociology and religious studies at the University of Ghana earning a BA and an MA in related disciplines. He later completed an MA in Conflict, Security and Development at King's College London and a doctoral degree at La Trobe University in Australia critically appraising the natural resource curse discourse through a political theory lens.

Sefa-Nyarko's work focuses on research design, political methodology and natural resource governance, with an emphasis on energy transition and climate-related policy in Africa and Australia.
He has conducted research in Ghana, Kenya, South Sudan and Nigeria, and has provided analysis for international media outlets such as the BBC and The Ghanaian Chronicle.
His academic work includes publications on institutional design, natural resource governance and political accountability in journals such as Energy Research & Social Science, Third World Quarterly and African Evaluation Journal.
Sefa-Nyarko is a lecturer at the African Leadership Centre, King's College London, where he teaches and conducts research on resource governance and energy transitions. He is also an alumnus of the ALC, which maintains a continental network of fellows and alumni working on security, development and leadership in Africa.
In September 2025, the UK Research and Innovation announced that he was among 77 recipients of the Future Leaders Fellowship, a £120 million programme supporting interdisciplinary research across health, energy, technology, social sciences and creative fields.