Clement Sefa-Nyarko

Clement Sefa-Nyarko (born December 1977), is a Ghanaian academic and senior 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. He 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.

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 senior lecturer at the African Leadership Centre (ALC), King's College London, where he teaches and conducts research on resource governance and energy transitions.

In September 2025, the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) 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.

Selected publications