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I'm an AI governance and enterprise risk practitioner working across advisory, research and teaching. I help organisations in Africa and MENA turn AI regulation into governance their people can run, and I help them ship the AI it governs.
IAPP AIGPDAIGI AmbassadorCairo, Egypt
I trained as a civil engineer at KNUST, and I still think like one. A structure is only as good as the parts that carry the load, and the same is true of governance: a policy that nobody operates carries nothing.
I spent nine years at GCB Bank in Accra. I started in maintenance, where I co-wrote the bank's maintenance policy and rebuilt vendor management. I moved into process analysis, writing SOPs for more than ten departments, then into data science, building the churn and customer-value models that contributed to the bank's 25.3% profit growth in FY2024.
As Automation Engineering Lead I set up the bank's Centre of Excellence for intelligent automation and shipped its first enterprise GenAI assistant to 3,500+ frontline staff. The bank had no AI governance at all, so I built that too: an ISO/IEC 42001-aligned framework with risk, compliance and internal control gates at the point where ideas come in, not at go-live.
That work taught me that most AI risk is decided early, by whoever writes the first intake form. In 2026 I left the bank to do this work across the continent: as a Senior Practitioner at AlgoViva, as a peer reviewer and co-author on the African AI Governance Index methodology, as a DAIGI Ambassador, and from Cairo, leading the Egypt arm of a free Arabic-language AI safety course for MENA. I write about what I see on Substack, and when the IAPP's global AI tracker had Kenya out of date, I sent corrections that it adopted in October 2026.
To help organisations in Africa and MENA turn AI regulation into governance their people can run, so they can adopt AI with confidence and answer for it when asked.
An Africa where AI is adopted on its own terms: governed by the people who use it, accountable to the people it affects, and written into rules the continent helped shape.
A control only counts if someone operates it. I design for the person who will be audited on it, not for the shelf.
I'm a numbers person. Every claim on this site traces to a result I can show, and I hold my clients' AI to the same standard.
Global frameworks are the starting point. Ghana's Act 843, Kenya's AI Bill and Egypt's Law 151 are where the work actually lands.
High-risk decisions need a person with real authority to override the model, and a clear way for the people affected to seek recourse.
The record
In the press
A Q&A on credit scoring, algorithmic bias and human oversight in African banking: oversight scaled to risk tier, recourse for the people affected, and why bias and drift thresholds belong at the design stage.
“You cannot govern what you do not own.”Read the feature ↗
Advisory, fractional governance lead roles, research, training and speaking.