Dr. Henry Anibe Agbonika is the Founder and Executive Curator of Policy Delivery International Limited, a pan-African advisory platform that transforms policy ideas into measurable, lasting results. A governance and public policy strategist with more than 15 years of high-level experience, he operates at the nexus of institutional reform, trade and economic policy, and results-based development planning. He has advised both federal and subnational governments across Nigeria and engaged with international partners to design, implement, and track reforms that strengthen governance systems, drive economic transformation, and deliver tangible benefits to citizens.
Dr. Henry has led the delivery of high-impact initiatives, including The Dangote Playbook, the Corridors That Work series, the AGOA and Nigeria's Trade Diplomacy Reset strategy, and the China-Nigeria Trade (2014-2023) study. His reform portfolio covers the Niger State multi-tier development plans, and sectorial polices, support to the modernisation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), and the repositioning of the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON). For the NYSC, his scope of work included conducting an institutional assessment of the Corps' organisational design, human resources, logistics, and field deployment mechanisms; identifying structural bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and outdated operational procedures; and recommending a restructured service model that enhances effectiveness, digitalisation, and transparency.
Dr. Agbonika has facilitated subnational engagements for Nigeria's Medium-Term National Development Plan (2021-2025) and the Nigeria Agenda 2050, ensuring alignment of state priorities with national targets, and has provided technical support to the Bureau for Public Sector Reforms. Most recently, he led the nationwide Capacity and Needs Assessment of the Civil Service across Nigeria's 36 states and the FCT for ASCON, generating evidence-based insights to guide state-level reform and training interventions.
He has supported the Centre of Government in the design and implementation of Nigeria's Results Delivery Architecture and the Presidential Transition Architecture, ensuring national priorities are clearly defined, tracked, and achieved. He has provided capacity-building support to the National Economic Council Secretariat and played key roles in several Presidential retreats assessing ministerial performance and shaping federal reform priorities.
For the World Bank, he was instrumental in initiating the Externally Funded Output (EFO), supported by the Canadian and Australian International Development Agencies, which provided a critical stop-gap for Nigeria's solid minerals sector after the Bank's Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources Project. He served as Focal Person for the Canadian International Development Agency's Building Nigeria's Response to Climate Change (BNRCC) programme, which produced Nigeria's first National Adaptation Strategy and Plan of Action for Climate Change in Nigeria (NASPA-CCN), alongside other climate-focused projects. He has also served on Nigeria's inaugural National Committee on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), contributed to the review of Nigeria's trade policy, and contributed to negotiations on the ACP-EU Trade Partnership Agreements.
Currently, Dr. Agbonika serves as the Technical Lead for Priority 8 (Improved Governance for Enhanced Service Delivery) under the Presidential Deliverables framework, where he also assesses the performance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in line with the President's Renewed Hope mandate. He has held strategic committee roles, including Secretary of the Strategy & Technical Committee of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Member of the Strategy Committees of both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Women Affairs, and Secretary of the Steering Committee of the National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER) at the NESG. He has also served as a consultant on national security, law, and order to a leading Nigerian presidential campaign, contributing to the development of policy frameworks on security sector reform and governance.
A Dongfang Scholar at Peking University, Beijing, China, Dr. Agbonika holds a PhD in Leadership and Strategic Studies from the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. He is a Certified Livelihoods and Markets Professional from the Coady International Institute of St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada, and has been trained in Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His work is defined by strategic clarity, execution discipline, and a commitment to reforms that are politically realistic, data-driven, and institutionally sustainable.