Osai J. Ojigho is a lawyer, gender equality expert and human rights advocate. Ms. Ojigho is currently the Interim Director of the Pan Africa Programme at Oxfam GB where she provides leadership and management of the programme and coordinates continental campaigns that promote human rights and facilitates civil society participation in regional and continental policy spaces. She actively contributes to interventions on the African Union, promotes access to justice, human rights protection, women’s human rights and Africa led initiatives for peace and development. She heads the secretariat of the State of the Union Coalition (SOTU) and is a consulting editor with Open Global Rights, an online platform moderating debates on human rights.  She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and a life member of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU). She is also a founding member of the West African Women Election Observation (WAWEO) team. She previously was with Alliances for Africa (AfA), where as its Deputy Executive Director she coordinated the Gender Justice in Africa initiative and spearheaded strategic litigation of women’s human rights before regional and continental courts. She was a member of the human rights observation mission in Mali with the African Union and briefly worked at the International Criminal Court. Osai has travelled widely and published in her areas of interest with a particular focus on Africa. She holds a Law degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and a LLM degree from the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Follow her on twitter at: @livingtruely