Abdul Karim Ibrahim comes with multidisciplinary experience spanning local, national, and global levels. He brings to his work a sharp analytical mind, strategic communication skills, and academic research with a commitment to centring African perspectives in global conversations.
Since 2022, he has served as the Africa Regional Coordinator for the UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health, based in Portugal, where he managed a portfolio of over 150 parliamentarians across the continent. In this role, he has led or supported strategic collaborations with major institutions including the World Health Organization (WHO), Global Fund, Unitaid, UHC2030, and Wellcome Trust. His efforts have helped to project African parliamentarians in major global health diplomacy spaces, including the World Health Assembly, UN High-Level Meetings, UNITE Global Health Summits and draft contributions surrounding the PPPR and the global Pandemic Accord.
Abdul Karim’s research interests span Social protection, Football and Development, Decolonization, and African Thought Systems. In 2023, he was selected as a Fellow of the ASA Engagement Global Programme (Germany), where he contributed to a joint transregional project on decolonization hosted by the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI), the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) at the University of Freiburg, and the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.
Currently an adjunct journalist Abdul Karim holds nearly a decade’s wealth of experience as a broadcast journalist. In 2020, he co-led a widely cited exposé that debunked the fraudulent “Dr UN” award scheme falsely linked to the United Nations in Ghana (an investigation verified by fact-checking organizations such as Dubawa Ghana (link).
His extensive work with the All-Africa Students Union and long-standing engagement with the Speech Forces Organization reflect his deep involvement in youth development, debate education, and democratic civic engagement. Through these roles, he has helped train thousands of university students across Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and South Africa) in critical thinking, argumentation, and civic engagement.
Abdul Karim Ibrahim has contributed to several academic workshops. He co-authored a chapter in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Politics and Representation in Higher Education offering a historical analysis of the All-Africa Students Union. He is a co-author of a forthcoming work that explores fee-free education policy in Ghana through an ideational and multi-stream policy lens.