President Bola Tinubu recently approved the appointment of Dr. Opéyemí Délé-Àjàyí to serve as the President/CEO, Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) under the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy.
Education
Dr Opéyemí Délé-Àjàyí attended Christ School, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State between the 1999-2005, and later went on to bagged a Degree (B-tech in Computer Science) from the Prestigious Federal University of Technology Akure between 2006-2011.
Not satisfy yet, he proceeded to the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom where he bagged a Master of Science (MS), information Science between 2013-2014.
Shortly after that, Dr. Délé-Àjàyí capped his Academic pursuit with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), in Human and Computer interaction, between 2014-2017 from the prestigious Northumbria University, United Kingdom.
Career
The London base Opéyemí Délé-Àjàyí, based is currently a Research Lead – New Product Experimentation at Facebook, bringing experience from previous roles at Northumbria University, Stemres, Edtech Hub and Ekiti State Ministry of Education Science and Technology.
With a robust skill set that includes leadership, IT strategy, information technology, ITIL Service strategy, IT operations management and more, Dr. Opéyemí Délé-Àjàyí was a research fellow at the Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom between 201- 2019, he advanced to becoming a Senior Research Fellow in the same Organization.
He became an Assistant Professor in the University of Northumbria between february 2020- June 2021. From July 2021 till date he is a visiting Professor to the Northumbria University.
Beyond these, He has work has a UX Research Lead- New Product Experimentation, Manager, NPE Founders-in-Residence. June 2022-May2023.
Dr. Délé-Àjàyí as President/CEO of DBI
DBI: the International Centre for ICT Studies was established by the Nigerian Communications Commissions (NCC) established DBI – in May 2004, in the wake of the phenomenal worldwide growth of the Telecommunications (Telecoms) and Information Communications Technology (ICT) sectors.
Led by the successful auction of Digital Mobile Licensing by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) – the government regulator, and the subsequent roll out of mobile services, increased number of operators, and significant increased private capital investment, the sector as a whole has been challenged by a dearth of trained and suitably qualified human resources.
President Tinubu acknowledging the need to foster the rapid development and growth of the Nigerian Telecommunication marketplace appointed Dr. Délé-Àjàyí to bring his wealth of knowledge to bear to mitigate significant vulnerability that shortage of human resources could pose to the sector.
