Jimson Olufuye Ph.D. (Chairman, Advisory Council)
Dr Jimson Olufuye has more than 30 years of experience in the national, regional, and global digital ecosystem. He is the Chair/Principal Consultant at Kontemporary® Konsulting Ltd. Founder/1st Chair of the concerned private sector-led and over 40-nation strong Africa ICT Alliance – AfICTA. He is currently the Chair of the Advisory Council of AfICTA. He distinguished himself as one of the five (5) business representatives in the United Nations Commission for Science and Technology for Development Working Groups on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) (2011-2012), and on Enhanced Cooperation on public policy matters pertaining to the Internet, (2013-2014, 2016-2018), where he championed ice-breaking insights that enriched the multi-stakeholder dialogues. He was also a leading voice as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s IGF Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (2012-2013) and 2025. He was a
Board member of the Informal Multi-Stakeholder Sounding Board (IMSB) of the UN GA on WSIS+20 Review.
As the President of the Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria (2007- 2011), he connected the Nigerian ICT industry with the World Innovation Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA), where he was later elected as the Vice-Chair (2010- 2012). He also rejigged the ICANN Business Constituency as the Chair, Finance and Operations (2014-2020).
He was a member of the Netmundial+10 Steering Committee 2024 and leader of the AfICTA delegation to the UN Summit of the Future 2024, contributing the critical African private sector perspective to the Global Digital Compact. He also facilitated the Nigerian Side-event and Multistakeholder delegation (the 1st African Multistakeholder delegation) to the UN GA WSIS+20 High-Level Meeting,15-17 December 2025. He was the lead consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on Cybersecurity for Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and was responsible for its report, https://repository.uneca.org/handle/10855/50983. In addition, he is the architect of the new Tripod Cybersecurity Maturity Model, https://TCMM.africa.
