Taiwo Adebayo

Taiwo Adebayo is an award-winning journalist, currently covering business and climate change in Africa for the global news agency, The Associated Press (AP). Among his recent accountability enterprise stories on climate issues are the staggering land deals for carbon offsets involving an Emirati company in Africa and the deforestation in the supply chains of the global chocolate industry. Previously, Taiwo was the editor and head of Investigations and Data at PREMIUM TIMES, where he led landmark investigations, including Pandora Papers and rampant child labour in the supply chain of a Dutch multinational dairy company, earning Nigerian Best Investigative Journalist awards in 2021 (DAME) and 2022 (Wole Soyinka). Taiwo has been active in the knowledge production and capacity building aspect of the media, training and mentoring hundreds of journalists on climate, illicit financial flows, natural resources governance, and conflict reporting over the years. Taiwo is also a researcher. In 2019, he was on the UK Global Challenges Research Fund project on the humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin region. Between 2020 and 2021, he was a research consultant at the Institute for Security Studies, conducting research on Boko Haram and the Economy of Violence in the Lake Chad Basin. He has also researched the Chinese capital inflow into Nigeria and, more recently, the expansion of Boko Haram groups. Taiwo has degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and the University of East Anglia, Norwich.