Jonathan is a Senior Communications and Events Officer at the International Growth Centre (IGC). Previously, he was with the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA) as a research and programme officer. There he also managed FLIA’s flagship event, the LSE Africa Summit. Prior to this, he was with GIZ's Liaison Office to the German Ministry of Environment in Berlin, as well as the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (based at the United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security) in Bonn.
Jonathan has an MSc in Environment and Development from the LSE and a BA in Social Sciences from Jacobs University Bremen.
His personal research interests include political ecology, decolonial approaches to development, urban (participatory) planning, displacement, and climate change adaptation and mitigation, particularly within the African context.