Ibrahim Khalilulahi Usman (Khalil) is an award-winning journalist, climate communications expert, and publisher/editor-in-chief of Eco Media Africa.
Through engaging news, investigations, and articles, he simplifies complex climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity topics for non-science African audiences.
He has worked as a news producer, broadcast journalist, and managing editor at Zuria 88.7, where he led the Hausa news team and translated complex news stories into the Hausa language for non-English-speaking Ghanaians.
He specializes in long reads, narrative features, cross-border reporting, audio and podcasts, data sourcing, fact-checking, and open-source intelligence tools. He has trained over 300 student journalists on media and information literacy and conducted leadership training sessions in local schools.
He is also the co-lead for the Walking Library Project, which provides books and adaptive reading programs to children from underserved communities in the Ashanti Region, Ghana.
He is an alumnus of the Journalism and Innovation Program at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, the Next Generation Investigative Journalism Fellowship at the Media Foundation for West Africa, Ghana, and the African Presidential Leadership Program at the National Training Academy, Egypt.