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 * Uyoyo Zino Edosio, Principal Innovation & Digital Expert at African
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UYOYO ZINO EDOSIO, PRINCIPAL INNOVATION & DIGITAL EXPERT AT AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
BANK GROUP

Kemi Ajumobi

March 22, 2024

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Uyoyo Zino Edosio is passionate about driving digital transformation and
economic development in Africa. She spearheads AfDB’s digital transformation
action plan, guiding investment strategies across the continent to harness the
digital economy for social inclusion and economic growth.

With over 12 years in development finance and policy, she specialises in
crafting policies, strategies, and projects that drive digital economies,
innovation, startup investment, and youth empowerment.

She is currently managing a pan-African portfolio exceeding $600m, and her work
includes: Technology infrastructure, with total portfolio of $127m. For example,
leading the bank’s $47m technology park project in Cabo Verde, and diversifying
the economy from tourism to an international tech center.

Another is startup and entrepreneurship, where she is leading projects with the
governments of Rwanda and Nigeria totaling over $300m, setting up
sovereign-backed venture funds to invest in startups, driving policies such as
startup acts, and empowering over 1 million youths with digital skills.



On policy support for STI & Digital trade, she is partnering with the African
Union and Smart Africa Secretariat to reimagine innovation in higher education
and harmonise digital trade policies across 10 countries.



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Uyoyo is ensuring proper strategic partnerships, where she is driving
partnerships between the African Development Bank and the US Government,
facilitating collaborations with industry leaders like Google, Intel, Microsoft,
and Mastercard.



She has designed and is ardently leading the execution of a comprehensive
five-year digital transformation strategy detailing investments and
interventions in digital infrastructure, skills advancement, and policy-driven
innovation.

As former Senior Innovation Expert in Human Capital Development at AfDB Group,
Cote D’Ivoire, the investment project she handled included: Managing and
designing sovereign and non-sovereign loans and grant projects across eight
countries with a combined portfolio of $68 million, she supervised over 30
project staff and consultants, oversaw various projects and initiatives,
including: projects with the African Union Commission to establish innovation
centers of excellence at African Universities ($45 million) in Cameroon, Kenya,
and Nigeria.

Furthermore, she also supervised grant projects with ECOWAS to support the
Nelson Mandela Institute for Science and Technology ($20 million) in Nigeria,
Tanzania, and Burkina Faso, and also managed non-sovereign projects with Ghana
Education Fund and El Sewedy Education Group in Ghana and Egypt.

Through her Master’s degree in International Social and Public Policy
(Development) at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),
Uyoyo will be sharpening her hands-on experience (at the African Development
Bank) with theoretical frameworks, practices and approaches to address
challenges in public policy and social development.


Kemi Ajumobi

ASSOCIATE EDITOR, BUSINESSDAY MEDIA LIMITED.

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