Njoya Tikum is the Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Sub-Regional Hub for West and Central Africa (UNDP WACA) and Resident Representative of UNDP Senegal. As head of UNDP WACA, he leads and coordinates UNDP’s regional policy and programmatic efforts, fostering collaboration among regional institutions and development partners and providing dedicated support to 24 country offices in West and Central Africa.
For decades, Njoya has championed initiatives that foster good governance, peace and security, anti-corruption, regional cooperation and sustainable development.
Before his current role, he served as Manager and Head of the Regional Office for East and Southern Africa at the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, where he led the UNV's East and Southern Africa organisational transformation and established an entirely new and effective regional team and operation in 23 countries.
Njoya has also served in Ethiopia, Liberia, South Sudan and at the United Nations Headquarters in the United States of America.
Before joining UNDP, Njoya worked as an attorney and was a Senior Human Rights Fellow at the Human Rights Institute, Columbia University School of Law. He also served as a Legal Associate at the African Services Committee and as Co-Founder and Director for the Centre for Public Interest Law in Cameroon.
Njoya is a Maurice Greenberg World Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, USA and holds an LLM in International Contracts and Human Rights Law from Columbia University School of Law, an LLM in International Business Law from the Central European University, and a Licence and Maitrise en Droit from the University of Yaoundé II SOA.
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