Elorm Mawuli-Kwawu
Email Address
elorm@foreignafrica.org
Location
Accra, Ghana
Elorm Mawuli-Kwawu is an Africa-focused-International-Relations-and-Development-Policy Researcher whose work covers African regional integration, diplomacy, institutional development, and policy implementation. With over a decade of experience across research, multi-country programming, and international cooperation, Elorm combines policy and practice, focusing on how African institutions translate regional and continental ambitions into effective partnerships, programmes, and development outcomes. As Head of Global Engagements at Foreign Africa, he leads institutional building, research and strategic partnerships, anchoring the organisation’s external positioning and policy work across Africa and internationally.
Elorm has coordinated programme delivery across multiple Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States with Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), aligning implementation with regional policy frameworks and strengthening governance systems for planning, risk monitoring, and reporting. He also delivered multi-country political economy and security risk analysis under the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK-FCDO) Sahel Initiative, producing high-level briefs for senior decision-makers and improving programme coordination through structured tracking and reporting systems.
In 2022, Elorm led cross-regional facilitation as Africa Engagement Lead for the Saudi-funded Misk Foundation, coordinating partnerships across Africa and the Gulf and supporting leadership teams. Elorm previously served as Consulting Head of Research and Communications at the All-Africa Students Union (AASU), directing research and policy engagement across a pan-African network, coordinating multi-country programmes, and producing institutional outputs for engagement with the African Union (AU) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs).
Earlier, as a Research Assistant in Ghana’s Parliament, he produced policy briefs and analytical reports to support legislative decision-making and coordinated stakeholder engagement. Alongside his policy work, Elorm serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Media, Arts and Communication (UNIMAC), where he teaches and supervises students.
Elorm is a NUPI-certified Trainer of Trainers (ToT) with the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) in South Africa, delivering capacity-building programmes in governance, negotiation, leadership and strategic facilitation. Elorm contributes to academic and policy discourse through publications, conference presentations, and collaborative research on governance and regional integration. His work has been presented at international forums across Africa and Europe. In recognition of his contributions to cross-regional engagement and policy dialogues, he was awarded the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant in 2025 to support his participation in a high-level Africa–Europe Cooperation forum at the Khel University of Applied Sciences in Germany and policy engagements at the European Union (EU) Parliament in Strasbourg, France.