Travis L. Adkins

Mr. Travis L. Adkins is a lecturer of African and security studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. As an international development leader, he has two decades of experience working in governance, civil society, and refugee and migration affairs in over 50 nations throughout Africa and the Middle East. This includes serving as staff director of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, working with leading international nongovernmental organizations and think tanks, as well as within several branches of the UN system. Travis is an alumnus of the International Affairs Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of academic appointments from Carnegie Mellon and New York Universities. Mr. Adkins has served in numerous international election observation missions in Africa and the Middle East with the National Democratic Institute; is a contributor to Foreign Policy, The Grio, the BBC, and Al Jazeera on African affairs; and is the creator and host of the On Africa podcast, which engages diverse thought leaders in conversation on the continent's politics, history, and culture.