​Dany Komla Ayida is Senior Program Adviser at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) in Doha, Qatar. He was previously Senior Resident Director of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he led the Institute's programs across Central Africa. Before joining NDI, he founded Africa Label Group, an international development consulting firm, where he was Managing Director and Senior Consultant and provided strategy and management advice. He has led projects in many African countries and worked with major international partners, including the World Bank, the European Union, ECOWAS, USAID, UNDP, IFES and International IDEA. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration from the European Institute of Applied Science and Management (EIASM), a Master of Science from HEC Paris and a diploma in Public Law from the University of Lomé, Togo. He is also the author of a political essays on democracy and development in Africa and of several collections of short stories and plays.​