Abraham Ekoko-Esseau

Abraham Roch Okoko-Esseau is the Permanent Representative of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) to the African Union and Head of the ECCAS Liaison Office in Addis Ababa. Before that, he spent more than five years as Senior Political Adviser to the President of the ECCAS Commission. He has also worked at the African Union (AU) Commission as Governance and Democracy Senior Expert seconded by International IDEA and the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) as Secretary and Member of the Governing Committee. He holds master's degrees in political philosophy (University of Yaoundé, Cameroon), political science (Sciences Po Paris), public law (Université René Descartes, Paris) and leadership and negotiation (Universidad Europea de Valencia, Spain). His long-standing interests are conflict transformation and the links between governance, peace and security, and development.