Executive Director

Jacob O. Sule is the Founder and Executive Director of iRead To Live Initiative.

He is a doctoral researcher in Comparative and International Higher Education at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, where his research focuses on higher education governance, cross-border partnerships, and accountability frameworks in African higher education contexts. He is the originator of the Governance Symmetry Model, an analytical framework being developed to diagnose coordination failures in Nigerian higher education governance.

Jacob holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law from the American University Washington College of Law and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Osun State University Nigeria. His legal training informs iRead To Live’s distinctive approach to policy analysis, which combines statutory interpretation with comparative governance research.

He serves as a Program Coordinator at IREX in Washington, DC, managing international exchange programs funded by the U.S. Department of State, including the Community Solutions Program and the Community Engagement Exchange. This professional experience informs his understanding of how international education policy is designed and implemented.

Jacob’s public commentary on Nigerian higher education appears in TheCable Nigeria and on The Jacob’s Ed, his Substack newsletter on education policy. He has written on JAMB reform, NYSC policy, the Coventry University Nigeria partnership, and NUC regulatory governance.

He founded iRead To Live Initiative in 2012 in Nigeria, beginning with community literacy advocacy before evolving the organization toward higher education policy research and think tank operations.