Dr. Bawo James (MD), is from Benin City, Nigeria. He holds postgraduate qualifications in psychiatry, epidemiology, and management. Since 2010, he has worked as an addiction psychiatrist at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Benin City, where he heads the Drug Abuse Treatment Education and Research (DATER) Unit. His role includes clinical care, program oversight, training, and research. Dr. James is a Humphrey Fellowship alumnus, a master trainer for TREATNET, and national trainer for the Universal Treatment Curriculum (UTC). He is also an executive of ISSUP, Nigeria Chapter as well as the Nigerian Society for Addiction Medicine (NSAM). Recently, he assumed the role of Director of the Nigeria International Technology Transfer Centre (Nigeria ITTC) focused on systems change to improve the efficiency of Nigeria’s drug prevention and treatment efforts.