Tobi Kasali

Tobi is a Senior Analyst at the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies, where she supports global digital cooperation initiatives with a focus on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), digital transformation, and capacity-building in digital transformation and artificial intelligence.

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In her current role, Tobi  leads capacity-building initiatives on AI and digital transformation, including work with a regional focus on Africa to accelerate digital transformation in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. She also stewards the DPI Safeguards multi-stakeholder Working Groups to develop a universal DPI Safeguards Framework and supporting knowledge products to help countries address risks such as exclusion, discrimination, and privacy harms in DPI implementation.

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Before joining the United Nations, Tobi worked in the energy sector as a Digital Transformation Analyst, where she led the development of data-driven solutions for predictive maintenance and production operations using machine learning and artificial intelligence. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Lagos, a Master’s degree in Computing Information Engineering from Robert Gordon University, where she graduated top of her class, and a Master’s degree in International Affairs and Public Policy from Columbia University.

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