Dr. David Moinina Sengeh - Leveraging Innovation and Technology to Accelerate Africa's Development

Name: Dr. David Moinina Sengeh - Leveraging Innovation and Technology to Accelerate Africa's Development
Start: 2024-03-11T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-03-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: The Danish Society of Engineers

David Moinina Sengeh is the Chief Minister of the Goverment of Sierra Leone and an engineer with a Ph.D. in bio-mechatronics from the MIT media lab.

He is visiting Denmark to kick off the development of the Danish government's new approach to partnership with African countries.

Dr. Sengeh was appointed as Sierra Leone’s first Chief Innovation Officer in 2018 at the age of 31 and became Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education the following year - the youngest ever in Sierra Leone's history.

As Minister of Education, he spearheaded the government's flagship program investing more than 20% of the goverment budget in education and championing youth involvement through a Youth Advisory Board. His first book, Radical Inclusion, tells the story of how he fought to overturn the ban on pregnant girls attending school – the ban was lifted by the President of Sierra Leone in 2020. In 2022 he was named the World's Best Minister at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

He has also given a TED Talk about his work developing 3D-printed prostheses for the survivors of Sierra Leone's civil war, and he went viral during the corona lockdowns when he took a Zoom meeting with his daughter on his back. Prior to joining government, he co-founded the NGO Global Minimum with the mission to foster a new generation of African leaders. Dr. Sengeh studied his undergraduate degree in engineering at Harvard College after completing the International Baccalaureate at Red Cross Nordic United World College.

Dr. Sengeh is an exceptional global leader and we are very privileged to be able to host him at the Danish Society of Engineers.

Lecture
In this exclusive lecture, Dr. Sengeh will share his journey into government as an engineer and his vision for a new era of international cooperation based on investing in education, leveraging technology and including young people in political processes.

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The Lecture will be held at the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA) on Kalvebod Brygge 31-33. It is a free lecture but registration is necessary. Spaces are limited and allocated on a first come first served basis.

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Dato og tid Mandag d. 11. marts 2024 kl. 17:00 til 18:00

Tilmeldingsfrist Mandag d. 11. marts 2024 kl. 15:00

Sted The Danish Society of Engineers
Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
1560 København V

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