Executive DirectorAfriLabs Foundation
Anna is the Executive Director of AfriLabs - a network organisation of 400 technology and innovation hubs spread across 52 African countries and the diaspora; She leads the AfriLabs community to achieve its vision of a thriving innovation economy in Africa and heads a pan-African team to develop initiatives and build multi-stakeholder partnerships that support African innovation hubs and other stakeholders in raising high potential entrepreneurs that stimulate economic growth and social development in Africa.
Anna is an international speaker, trainer, innovation ecosystem builder, and mentor. She is also an advisor in several advisory roles; she is a member of the Africa-Europe Foundation Digital Strategy Task Force, and she is also engaged in a High-Level Policy Dialogue on the Science, Technology and Innovation working group AU-EU Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the future of technology policy.
Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, West and Central Africa