Dr Domnan Miri SFHEA @DFMiri

Delighted to attend the Celebrating Success event at Newcastle University, hosted by Vice-Chancellor Professor Chris Day, recognising achievements across teaching, research, student experience, and sustainability. I was especially honoured to be recognised for my Senior Fellowship of Advance HE (SFHEA), a milestone reflecting my ongoing commitment to higher education leadership and student experience. It was a pleasure to celebrate alongside colleagues from Newcastle University Business School. A memorable evening showcasing inspiring work and impact across the University, particularly in sustainability and positive change #newcastleuniversity #celebratingsuccess #sfhea

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Attended the Academy of International Business Africa Chapter Conference at Strathmore University in Nairobi. Great turnout, insightful conversations, and a pleasure connecting with people who share similar interests. #AIB #StrathmoreUniversity #Nairobi #NewcastleUniversity

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Took some time to reflect on a pathway for growth in my hometown, harnessing our rich agricultural resources to drive real value creation. Plateau State: From farm to value creation thecable.ng/plateau-from-f…

DOMNAN MIRI: "Development in Plateau state has often been discussed in terms of its natural advantages, its fertile land, favourable climate, and a long-standing culture of farming. Yet, despite this abundance, the economic reality for many farmers remains constrained. The issue is not production; Plateau state produces widely and well. The deeper challenge lies in what happens after production. Too often, crops leave farms as raw commodities, sold cheaply, wasted in transit, or left to perish due to a lack of structured markets." thecable.ng/plateau-from-f…

Plateau State: From Farm to Value Creation, by Dr Domnan Miri promptnewsonline.com/plateau-state-…

Plateau State: From farm to value creation platinumpost.news/2026/05/02/379…

Plateau State: From Farm to Value Creation, by Dr Domnan Miri promptnewsonline.com/plateau-state-…

Plateau State: From Farm to Value Creation thewhistler.ng/plateau-state-…

The Academy of International Business (AIB) Africa Chapter invites you to Nairobi for its Conference 2026, hosted by Strathmore Business School, 27–29 May 2026. Submission deadline: 2 Feb 2026 Details: lnkd.in/g6_GGj6j #AIB aib.world/event/aib-afri…

Are you a young graduate interested in international relations? Are you curious to learn more about work of a diplomatic mission and how the EU Delegation represents EU interests and values in Nigeria? EEAS eeas.europa.eu/delegations/ni…

Glad to be recognised by the @AdvanceHE as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy #SFHEA. This reflects my commitment to teaching excellence and innovation in Sustainability, International Business & Entrepreneurship at @UniofNewcastle. Grateful to colleagues & Students.

NEW REPORT: Who will vote in 2027? Our latest National Voting Intentions Survey shows 77% of Nigerians are ready to hit the polls, but 42% are held back by fear of violence. Candidate quality & security will decide the day. #NigeriaDecides2027 #VotingIntentions2027 #WatchingTheVote #NigeriaVotes

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In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.

President Emmanuel Macron says France decries US President Donald Trump's threat to impose levies on countries opposing his plans to seize Greenland. Speaking in Davos, Macron said: ‘we do prefer respect to bullies … and we do prefer rule of law to brutality."

Grateful to Critical Perspectives on International Business (#CPoIB) for the opportunity to serve as a reviewer in 2025, and for this kind recognition, a thoughtful touch that brought a smile to my face. Always a pleasure to support societally engaged scholarship.

This is to inform the general public that applications are now open for the 2026/2027 PTDF Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme. The application portal opened on Friday, 16 January 2026, and will remain open for six (6) weeks, closing on Friday, 27 February 2026.

Venezuela killed the US. Or rather, it revealed it was already dead. In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: the U.S. government has intervened to change governments in Latin America a total of 41 times (revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-states-…). What is unprecedented however is the brazenness, the unabashedly predatory nature of the intervention. Trump is not pretending this is about anything else than resource extraction. He explicitly stated "we're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground" and that this wealth would “go to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country." (npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s…). Stunningly, the US isn’t even insisting on regime change. They’re quite happy for the Chavista government to stay in place under acting president Delcy Rodríguez as long as she “does what we want,” (said Trump: edition.cnn.com/2026/01/04/pol…), vowing to bomb the country again if she didn’t. In other words, there is absolutely zero pretense there: submission to the U.S.’s will is the only variable that matters. Never before in its entire history has the U.S. been so nakedly… bad. This might sound almost trivial. “So what if they admit they’re bad, at least they’re not hypocritical about it anymore,” you might tell yourself. Some might even find that refreshing in its honesty. Quite the contrary. The story a nation tells itself is not trivial - it is everything. We, human beings, for better or worse, are structured by mythology and self-deception. Think about yourself, what drives your own behavior? You have, doubtlessly, ideals you want to live up to. If you have kids you have ideals of what a good parent ought to be. If you have a spouse you have ideals of what fidelity and partnership mean. If you have a job you have some conception of integrity. You probably fall short - we all do - but the ideals still structure your behavior. They give you something to reach for, they provide the terms in which you can be criticized - including by your own internal dialogue. They make it possible for you to do better tomorrow. The hypocrisy - the gap between ideal and reality - is not the problem. It's the proof that the ideal still has a hold on you, that you can still be called back to it. As the saying goes, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. Now imagine you renounce all this. Imagine you stop being a hypocrite in the sense that you abandon your ideals entirely, that you start owning up to your worst self and become comfortable with your vices. You cheat on your spouse and stop pretending it bothers you. You neglect your children and make peace with it. Have you thus become “refreshingly honest”? Maybe. But you’ve also died inside. You’ve become something deeply broken - beyond shame, beyond appeal. You’ve lost the internal architecture that makes moral life possible. The little light that said “this is not who I want to be” is extinguished. That is what the United States just did. The consequences of this are, frankly, terrifying. What happens when a nation stops telling itself it should be good? This is precisely what I try to answer in my latest article: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

My column on Venezuela in @TheEconomist “Prosperity does not come from oil, decrees or even benevolent rulers. It comes from rights. Rights create private property. Rights create security. Rights create debate. Rights allow people to invest, to innovate, to dream—and to transform reality. Take rights away, and society withers. Restore them, and recovery is possible.” economist.com/by-invitation/…

I'm 45. If I were in my 30s… Here are 10 resolutions I'd commit to in 2026 to completely level up my life: