Emmanuel K. Urey, PhD, MPH, MSc. BSc. Dr. Urey is an administrator and environmental and land tenure expert with a wide range of expertise in higher education administration, education policy, law and regulation. He has both qualitative and quantitative field-based research knowledge; program organization; project implementation and oversight; grant and proposal writing; customary/informal land tenure regimes; rural land governance; technical training programs; and large-scale concessions. With over 10 years of experience in the education and land tenure sectors, he has coordinated with stakeholders in the land and environmental sectors, offering commentaries on policy papers, draft land laws, and environmental and land governance strategies.

Dr. Urey’s interests focus on higher education, land administration, livelihoods and health; culture preservation; sustainable development; environmental issues; the management of common property; gender issues; impacts of large-scale concessions for rural people; and environmental and social justice issues. He holds a PhD in Environment and Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current research focuses on the history and impacts of large-scale agriculture concessions on rural people in Liberia. He is the main protagonist in the award-winning documentary “The Land Beneath Our Feet”.