Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile Is Now a Lifetime Member Of the US Council On Foreign Relations

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile Is Now a Lifetime Member Of the US Council On Foreign Relations

Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, a Nigerian Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is now a lifetime member of the United States Council on Foreign Relations. Uche Ofodile’s election as a lifetime member makes her one of the few Africans and Arkansans to rise to such a position in the organisation.

The newly elected joins a prestigious organization whose members are among the most distinguished and most prominent leaders in the foreign policy scene, including renowned scholars, top government officials, business executives, journalists, lawyers and nonprofit professionals. Some of the Members of the Council include former President William J. Clinton, former U.S. secretaries of state Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice amongst other prominent figures.

As a lifetime member, Uche Ofodile vows to lead awareness about some pertinent issues relating to food, nutrition and water insecurity, corporate social responsibility, accountability, global governance and more.

The US Foreign Relations Council is one of the leading foreign policy organisations globally. Since it was established in 1921, the organization has been concerned with publishing the widely circulated and well-regarded international affairs magazine – Foreign Affairs. The council also handles the David Rockefeller Studies Program, which influences foreign policy by making recommendations to the presidential administration and diplomatic community and testifying before Congress.

A former secretary-general of the African Society of International Law, Uche Ofodile is currently a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law in Hong Kong and an affiliated professor of African and African American Studies at the U of A’s Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. She researches and writes in the areas of intellectual property law, international trade law, international investment law and international dispute settlement. 

Uche Ofodile has published various articles including journals at Yale, Michigan and Vanderbilt, among others. She is currently working on two books, one of which is with Oxford University.  She is also on the Editorial Advisory Committee of International Legal Materials and currently serves as a book review editor for The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals. 

Uche Ofodile has received several awards including those from the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the Albert Einstein Institution, the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the Southeast Association of Law Schools and the American Bar Association Section of International Law. 

Congratulations Uche Ofodile on being elected a lifetime member of the United States Council on Foreign Relations.