Our alumnus Pius Nnahiwe obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2023, his research focused on farmers behaviour and extension workers job satisfaction in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
His career trajectory spans the academia (livelihoods research), UN system (UNECE and UNDP), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, European Union Trust Fund for Africa, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UKFCDO) and World Bank funded projects. Specifically, he gained familiarity with providing substantive support for implementation, policy coordination and evaluation functions in the delivery of the following funded development programmes and projects: GEMS4 (16.8 million GBP) and SuNMaP (89 million GBP) from UKFCDO across Nigeria, V4 EU (3 million EUR) in Kenya, YPARD across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean (1 million CHF from SDC with additional funding from IFAD) and HOPE project (ICRISAT, LCRI and IAR) across North East Nigeria.
Currently, he supports the UNDP ICPSD Resilience and Crisis Response team, contributing to the design and implementation of initiatives, projects, and programmes whilst proffering policy recommendations and climate resilience strategies within project frameworks as well as related capacity development to build the resilience of a wider category of businesses in disaster-prone, climate vulnerable, conflict-affected, crisis-stricken and fragile countries, states, cities, and communities in South-Central Asia, West and East Africa.