Mariam Temitope Masha is the senior special assistant to the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on humanitarian interventions. Prior to that appointment, she served as the senior special assistant to the president of Nigeria on internally displaced persons.[1] She has also served as a strategic advisor to the vice president on North-East interventions. She is a member of the five-person board of trustees for the North East Children's Trust (NECT), where she serves as executive secretary,[2] and a visiting lecturer at the African Leadership Center (ALC) of King's College London.[3]