Olawunmi Opeyemi Obisesan, PhD

Olawunmi Opeyemi Obisesan, PhD is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Juris Vision Nexus (JVN), a growing global platform advancing law, technology, and governance from the Global South. Her work sits at the intersection of digital health governance, artificial intelligence policy, clinical legal education, and legal innovation — fields she believes will shape how societies protect human dignity in the twenty-first century.

With a background in legal scholarship and a commitment to institution-building, Obisesan is contributing to international conversations on how African and Global South jurisdictions can move from rule-takers to rule-shapers in the governance of emerging technologies. Her research interests span algorithmic accountability, patient data governance, and the ethical deployment of AI in health and public-sector contexts.

Her vision for clinical legal education reimagines how lawyers are trained — not only as technicians of precedent, but as problem-solvers equipped to navigate complexity, engage with technology, and serve communities with rigour and empathy. Through JVN, she is building learning infrastructure that connects theory to practice: virtual simulation environments, mentorship connections, and open-access knowledge that narrows the distance between scholarship and everyday practice.

Obisesan founded JVN in 2026 with a simple conviction: that the most consequential legal and policy questions of our era should be engaged not only in the traditional centres of global policy, but also in the cities and communities across Africa and the wider Global South where billions of people live, work, and seek justice.