Awalou Ouedraogo is a professor of international law and Chair of the Department of Human Rights and Equity Studies, at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is also a visiting Professor at Université Paris 2 Panthéon Assas, Université Lumière Lyon 2 and Université Thomas Sankara. Professor Ouedraogo holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His research interests include public international law; history, philosophy and theory of law; human rights and international humanitarian law, State formation and institutional reform in Africa. Professor Ouedraogo has authored several articles, chapters of collective books and monograph in French and English. He has co-edited with prof. Merle Jacobs, Race In-Equity: Intersectionality, Social Determinants of Health, and Human Rights. Toronto: APF Press, 2024. He is actively involved with the United Nations and several African Governments as human rights expert. Professor Ouedraogo is a Knight of the National Order of Burkina Faso.