Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw is currently the Chairman/Information Commissioner, Right to Access Information Commission and Associate Professor in Mass Communication and Journalism at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.  Before  he joined the Right to Access Information Commission in Sierra Leone in October 2018, he worked as Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics at Northumbria university in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK since September 2011.  He is the author of five books, including Human Rights Journalism (2012) and over 40 boo chapters and journal articles.  He was Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) between 2012 and 2016 following his election at the organisation’s biennial conference in Japan on November 24-28 2012. In 2013, 2015, and 2016, he was nominated Best Lecturer for student-led teaching by the Northumbria Students Union, and in 2014 for an award for Communication for Social Change run by the Centre for Communication for Social Change at Queensland University, Australia.

Tel: 079-101314/00232/30359669; Email:  ibrahim.shaw@raic.gov.sl; shawibrahim@hotmail.com; web: http://www.ibrahimseagashaw.com/index.php