Our people
Leadership & Governance
AIC is delivered by a team combining rigorous academic training, international development expertise, and lived experience of the communities we serve. The platform is an initiative of HYRIN — Holistic Youth Resilience & Innovation Network, a registered Nigerian non-profit (CAC RC 8729824). Each profile below is publicly verifiable on the HYRIN website.
Dr. Luqman O. Afolabi
Founder & Director
Ph.D. International Economics & Development
Architect of the AIC platform and the HYRIN integrated development model. 30+ peer-reviewed publications in development economics, poverty, and applied econometrics.
Dr. Yusuf Hammed Agboola
Lead Development Economist
Ph.D. International Economics
15 years of expertise in programme economics, labour-market analysis, and development finance across West Africa.
Dr. Abdulmalik O. Salau
Director of Financial Governance
CPA Australia · Ph.D. & MSc Accounting
Oversees financial controls, audit readiness, and donor compliance to international NGO governance standards.
Azeezat Gbadamosi
Public Health & Impact Monitoring
M.Sc. Public Health
5+ years in health programme monitoring and community-based impact evaluation across Nigerian NGO and government health systems.
Dr. Toluwalope Ogunro
Senior Advisor, Environmental Health
Ph.D. Environmental & Public Health
Horizon 2020 researcher. Leads the green economy and climate-resilience strategy across the Oke-Ogun corridor.
From the founder
Message from the Director
Welcome to the African Intelligence Cloud.
Africa stands at a pivotal moment in its development journey. Governments, universities, national statistical offices and research institutions are producing unprecedented volumes of high-quality data. Yet much of it remains fragmented, underutilized, and difficult to translate into timely policy decisions.
The African Intelligence Cloud was established to bridge that gap.
AIC is built on the belief that evidence should drive development. By combining trusted African datasets, advanced analytics, geospatial intelligence, artificial intelligence and collaborative research tools, we aim to reduce the distance between data collection and policy action.
We invite researchers, institutions, governments, development organizations and technology partners to join us in building a future where African data generates African solutions for African challenges.
Together, we can transform data into knowledge, knowledge into policy, and policy into sustainable development.