Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies

Tom Ogada has over 30-year experience in teaching, research, policy, administration, private sector, IGO and civil service. He is currently the Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies, which is an intergovernmental STI think tank mandated to support African countries and institutions to harness STI for sustainable development. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Kenya National Innovation Agency, and the immediate former chairman of the Board of the National Commission for Science, Technology, and Innovation Commission (2017-2020), a former County Minister for Trade, Industrialization, and Investment (2013-2013 and a former Managing Director of the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (2006-2009). He taught energy and environmental engineering courses in Moi University Kenya for 18 years (1988-2006). He has been a consultant of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) since 2000 on issues of intellectual property (IP), technology transfer and commercialization of R&D outputs. On this, he has supported several African countries to put in place National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategies including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria.  Prof Ogada holds an MBA strategic Planning, PhD degree in Chemical Engineering, and MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering.