Director, CIPIT, Strathmore University.

Dr. Melissa Omino is the Director of CIPIT at Strathmore University the leading Eastern African AI Policy Hub and Data Governance Policy Centre. Her research direction is focused on utilizing an African lens and a Human Rights lens. Part of the research conducted under Dr. Omino’s leadership involved mapping AI applications in Africa as the initial step in answering the question what determines African AI and the problems it aims to solve in Africa. Dr Omino is an intellectual property expert and has served as an Advisory Board member in several Projects that intersect between AI and IP including a National AI Strategy Process and leading the IP Advisory to global entity funding AI research in Africa.