Meet Our Team
Governed by an independent board, advised by world-class AI researchers, and run by a small, focused team building the evidence layer for African AI.
Governance Board
Prof. Jonathan Shock
Associate Professor, University of Cape Town · Director, UCT AI Initiative · Board Chair
Dr. Gilles Hacheme
Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft AI for Good Lab
Dr. Shikoh Gitau
Founder & CEO, Qhala
Dr. Tajuddeen Gwadabe
Programs Lead, Masakhane African Languages Hub
Chris Emezue
Founder, Lanfrica · PhD Researcher, Mila – Quebec AI Institute · Secretary
Lanfrica
Chris Emezue
Executive Director
Rachael Wambua
Marketing and Communications
Esther O. Adenuga
Researcher, Lanfrica Insights
Advisory
Yoshua Bengio
Turing Award Laureate · Co-President & Scientific Director, LawZero · Founder & Scientific Advisor, Mila
Andrew Bredenkamp
Chair of the Board, CLEAR Global · CEO, CLEAR Tech · Founder, Acrolinx
Emmanuel Klu
Iterative Horizons · former Research Engineer & Manager, Google Research