STEM and Digital Access Enthusiast I TedX Speaker I Director at TechQuest STEM Academy I
Dr. Itoro Emembolu is a Director at TechQuest STEM Academy, a non-profit technology education provider in Nigeria that has delivered digital skills & capability building programs across Africa, impacting over 35,000 people (https://tqstem.org/).
She has over 18 years cognate experience in in the areas of Research and Education, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluations (Impact and Process Evaluations), Programme Design and implementation, Business Strategy, Knowledge Management and Data Analysis.
Itoro has facilitated collaborations and project implementations with different industry organisations, organisational bodies and government bodies and institutions
She holds a B.Eng (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria; an MSc (Honors) in International Business, Energy & Petroleum from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland; an MPhil in Management (Strategic Management) from Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University, Nigeria; and a PhD in Computer Networks and Security from Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom. She is interested in reducing the digital skills gaps in Africa and getting more people to access technology and be technology enabled where needed.
Excellent teamwork and communication skills demonstrated by regional, international and multi-cultural collaborations with academics, practitioners and subject specialists resulting in multiple STEM workshops and 14 publications
Self-motivated, forward-thinking individual with learning capabilities demonstrated by continuous proficiency acquisition in new research areas and relevant technologies resulting in 7 certifications
Effective leadership and Project Management skills as evidenced by supervision & team coordination for the successful delivery of engineering projects
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Itoro-Emembolu
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