Dr. Yahaya Hashim is the Co-founder and Coordinator of Development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC - www.drpcngr.org), a Nigerian social enterprise dedicated to fighting marginalization and social exclusion by building capacity and social capital for participatory development. Prior to working at the Centre, he was a Co-founder and the first Executive Director of the Centre for Research & Documentation, a pioneering nonprofit formed by social movement activists to protect academic freedoms and human rights. He has served as adviser or board member to several CSOs, as well as a member of steering committees of major national development programs.
Dr. Hashim is a social entrepreneur, with an MBA earned in Nigeria and master’s degree and PhD earned in the Netherlands. He has worked in different fields throughout his professional life, ranging from investment analysis to Nigerian and African trade unions. Dr. Hashim has also taught and assisted at several universities in Africa and Europe, and has undertaken researches, programming studies, and community rapid assessments for international development organizations and NGOs. His current intervention interests are in development research, public health (especially reproductive health), education, governance, state-society relations, and social conflicts.