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UK FCDO’s Scientist Professor Charlotte Watts Visits Nigeria

Why UK FCDO’S Chief Scientific Advisor Professor Charlotte Watts Visited Nigeria

by Joan Aimuengheuwa
December 13, 2024
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UK FCDO's Chief Scientist Professor Charlotte Watts Visits Nigeria
(L-R) Knowledge Transfer Manager, KTN Business Connect, Chidubem Ejezie; CEO Hinckley Recycling, Adrian Clews; UK’s FCDO Technology and Innovation Adviser, West Africa, Chisom Udemezue; UK’s FCDO Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof. Charlotte Watts; Assistant Private Secretary, Thomas King; Countey Lead, KTN business connect, Joshua Adedeji; Knowledge Transfer Manager, KTN Business Connect, Sharon Rehoboth; and UK’s FCDO Research and Innovation Adviser, West Africa, Oluwasegun Adetunde in Lagos.

(L-R) Knowledge Transfer Manager, KTN Business Connect, Chidubem Ejezie; CEO Hinckley Recycling, Adrian Clews; UK’s FCDO Technology and Innovation Adviser, West Africa, Chisom Udemezue; UK’s FCDO Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof. Charlotte Watts; Assistant Private Secretary, Thomas King; Countey Lead, KTN business connect, Joshua Adedeji; Knowledge Transfer Manager, KTN Business Connect, Sharon Rehoboth; and UK’s FCDO Research and Innovation Adviser, West Africa, Oluwasegun Adetunde in Lagos.

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Reiterates the UK’s commitment to strengthening partnerships in innovation, research, and development to deliver shared prosperity and tackle global issues

Professor Charlotte Watts, the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence, arrived in Nigeria this week to see, firsthand, UK supported projects that are helping to strengthen Nigeria’s science, tech, and innovation ecosystem.

UK FCDO's Chief Scientist Professor Charlotte Watts Visits Nigeria
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UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence, Professor Charlotte Watts with the National Coordinator of the Presidential Initiative for Unlocking the Healthcare Valuechain (PVAC) Dr. Abdu Mukhtar, in Abuja.

During her visit, Professor Watts met with project stakeholders, innovators, and partners in Lagos and Abuja, to explore the transformative impact of these projects on economic growth, job creation, and societal challenges in Nigeria.

In Lagos, she visited the University of Lagos and Hinckley Recycling, beneficiaries of the UK-Africa Technology and Innovation Partnerships (ATIP) programme, funded by the Research and Evidence Directorate.

Hinckley Recycling, a UK e-waste recycling facility that developed second-life solutions for lithium-ion batteries.

While on site, Professor Watts reiterated the UK’s commitment to delivering on net zero in the UK and to work with Nigeria through companies such as the Hickley Recycling to save the environment while empowering livelihoods with clean energy to power their businesses.

She also met with Creative ecosystem stakeholders cutting across music, film and movies, content creation to discuss an ongoing study on Nigeria’s creative landscape commissioned with Evidence Fund by the West Africa Research and Innovation Hub (WARIH).

UK FCDO's Chief Scientist Professor Charlotte Watts Visits Nigeria
UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence, Professor Charlotte Watts and the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Uche Nnaji, flanked by his Technical Adviser, Ms. Ure Utah, his Special Adviser; Dr. Robert Ngwu and the UK’s West Africa Research and Innovation Hub (WARIH) team, in Abuja.

In Abuja, she met with Uche Nnaji, Nigeria’s minister of Science, Technology & Innovation, to hear about the Nigeria Government’s plans to develop a domestically funded Science Granting Council and met with Dr Abdu Mukhtar, the National Coordinator of the Presidential Initiative for Unlocking the Healthcare Value chain (PVAC).

Professor Watts’ visit highlights the UK’s commitment to strengthening partnerships in innovation, research, and development to deliver shared prosperity and tackle global issues and underscores the importance of the UK’s collaboration with Nigeria to promote innovation and research as drivers of sustainable development and economic growth.

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