Abdul Karim Ibrahim is a Ghanaian broadcast journalist and researcher with experience in development collaboration and global policy engagement. He has worked in various capacities including as Africa Regional Consultant for the UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health, based in Lisbon. His expertise covers policy research, legislative mobilization, and global health diplomacy. He has successfully supported collaborations with global partners including the World Health Organization (WHO), Global Fund, Africa CDC, Wellcome Trust, UNITAID, and engagements linked to the World Health Assembly, contributing to the advancement of African priorities within global health governance processes.
He is a recipient of the CODESRIA African Research in Indigenous and Alternative Knowledges (AFRIAK) Fellowship for early career researchers. His research interests span cultural infrastructure in African cities; the politics of football as a lens for understanding post-independence development trajectories; youth and platform-based work in Ghana; and questions of state capacity and social protection.
In 2023, he was affiliated with the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, where he contributed to a transregional research project on decolonization in higher education. He is also a contributor and Africa Regional Editor to The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Politics and Representation in Higher Education (2024).
Karim is a member of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar. He is also a longstanding member of Speech Forces, where he has trained over 5,000 students across secondary and tertiary institutions in debate, critical thinking, and public communication across multiple African countries.