Malik Samuel is a senior researcher at Good Governance Africa Nigeria, based in Abuja, Nigeria. Before joining GGA, he was a researcher with the Institute for Security Studies, specialising in the Boko Haram conflict in the Lake Chad Basin Region. Malik also worked as a conflict researcher with Amnesty International Nigeria. He was also a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders field communications manager in Northeast Nigeria. Before that, he was an investigative journalist at the Abuja-based International Centre for Investigative Reporting. Malik holds a Master's in Conflict, Peace, and Security degree from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).