Jimson Olufuye, fncs, ficma, PhD
Dr Jimson Olufuye has more than 30 years experience in the national, regional and global Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) industry. He is the Chairman/Principal Consultant at Kontemporary® Konsulting Ltd, an ICT solution company based in Abuja, Nigeria. He is also the Founder/1st Chair of the concerned private sector-led and over 35-nation strong Africa ICT Alliance – AfICTA (2012-2018). He is currently the Chair of the Advisory Council of AfICTA.
He has distinguished himself at the United Nations Commission for Science and Technology for Development Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and on the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation on public policy matters pertaining to the Internet (2010-2018) as one of the five (5) global business representatives. (He represented business in the developing world in the Commission.) He was also one of the five (5) global business leaders appointed by the UN Secretary-General into the UN Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) for the IGF, 2010-2012. He was formerly the President of the Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria (2007-2011) and Vice-Chair of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) (2009-2012).
He also served as the Chair, Finance, and Operations at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Business Constituency (ICANN-BC) (2014-2020). He was a board member of the Internet Governance Forum Support Association (IGFSA) (2015-2021). He has handled many World Bank, ECOWAS, the Federal Government of Nigeria, and many other entities’ projects.
He is the ICT Consultant for the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation, Nigeria (OAuGF) since 2013. He is also the Lead Consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on Cybersecurity for Development in the 4th Industrial Revolution, 2022 - .
He is a PRINCE2 certified Project Management Professional, a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA); a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and a Certified Risk & Information System Control (CRISC) professional. He holds a BSc in Applied Mathematics & Statistics (UniLagos), MTech Computing (FUTMinna) & PhD Strategic Management (IUBS, Dublin). He is a member of ISACA, USA; an alumni of the UK Telecom Academy, London; and of the prestigious Haggai Institute of Advanced Leadership, Hawaii, USA.