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Conference Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Conference Committee supports each conference and comprises the people appointed for the roles depicted below, who are responsible for a given area of the conference. Subject to the conference needs, these roles may be modified and other roles may be created or appointed by UNU-EGOV in concurrence with the Local Organiser.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\n Conference Chair, Opening Ceremony Speaker<\/h9>\n

Tshilidzi Marwala<\/h4>\n

Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations<\/p>\n

United Nations University<\/p>\n

South Africa<\/p>\n

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\n Conference Chair<\/h9>\n

Bosun Tijani<\/h4>\n

Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy<\/p>\n

Federal Republic of Nigeria<\/p>\n

Nigeria<\/p>\n

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\n PC Chair, Roundtable Speaker<\/h9>\n

Adegboyega Ojo<\/h4>\n

Professor and Canada Research Chair (Governance & AI)<\/p>\n

Carleton University<\/p>\n

Canada<\/p>\n

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\n Closing Ceremony Speaker, Panellist, PC Chair<\/h9>\n

Olayinka David-West<\/h4>\n

Dean<\/p>\n

Lagos Business School<\/p>\n

Nigeria<\/p>\n

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\n PC Chair, Track Chair<\/h9>\n

Zoran Jordanoski<\/h4>\n

Senior Research Analyst<\/p>\n

United Nations University (UNU-EGOV)<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/p>\n

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\n PC Chair, Roundtable Speaker<\/h9>\n

Rislan Kanya<\/h4>\n

Board Member<\/p>\n

Cosmopolitan University<\/p>\n

Nigeria<\/p>\n

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\n UNU Communications Chair<\/h9>\n

Fl\u00e1via Barbosa<\/h4>\n

Communication Consultant<\/p>\n

United Nations University (UNU-EGOV)<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/p>\n

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\n Roundtables Coordinator, Track Chair<\/h9>\n

Tupokigwe Isagah<\/h4>\n

Lead Research Associate<\/p>\n

United Nations University (UNU-EGOV)<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/p>\n

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\n Closing Ceremony Speaker, Local Organisation Chair<\/h9>\n

Mohammed Kumo<\/h4>\n

Director of the Research and Development (R&D) Department<\/p>\n

NITDA<\/p>\n

Nigeria<\/p>\n

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Aristotle Onumo<\/h4>\n

Director of Corporate Planning & Strategy<\/p>\n

NITDA<\/p>\n

Nigeria<\/p>\n

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\n Workshops Coordinator<\/h9>\n

Eliane Torres<\/h4>\n

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United Nations University (UNU-EGOV)<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/p>\n

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Conference Committee The Conference Committee supports each conference and comprises the people appointed for the roles depicted below, who are responsible for a given area of the conference. Subject to the conference needs, these roles may be modified and other roles may be created or appointed by UNU-EGOV in concurrence with the Local Organiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2706","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2706\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}