President of both the Steering Committee and the Network.

Prof Abdou Khadre DIOP holds a PhD in Public Law from Laval University in Canada and the University of Bordeaux in France (specializing in public international law) and is an associate professor of law (CAMES). He is a lecturer and researcher at the Cheikh Hamidou Kane Digital University (Senegal) and head of the Legal and Political Science Pedagogical Unit of the said university.

Prof. Diop is the President of the Network of Expert Lawyers on Migration in West and Central Africa and as such is also the President of the Steering Committee of the said network bringing together members of civil society, academia, and IOM.

Prof. Diop is also a founding member, with other colleagues from Senegal and Canada, of OMIRAS (Observatory on Migration, Statelessness and Asylum) and President of the Senegalese Association of Constitutional Law (ASDC).