Mustapha Jammeh is a GPAC2 Ph.D. fellow at UNU-MERIT. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Diplomacy and International Affairs from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky; and a Bachelor of Arts (Summa Cum Laude) in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from the Kentucky State University.

Mustapha currently works as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist in Development and Humanitarian Affairs. He previously worked in Legislative/Parliamentary Affairs and also worked with an NGO on Local Governance and Decentralization of Public Institutions. His research interests include Food Security, Vulnerability Analysis and Migration.