Oswald Osaretin Guobadia is a digital strategy and policy architect with 30 years of experience shaping infrastructure, innovation ecosystems, and policy frameworks across Africa and beyond. As Managing Partner at DigitA and former Senior Special Assistant on Digital Transformation to the President of Nigeria, he has led major initiatives including UNDP Africa’s timbuktoo policy approach, Sierra Leone’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policy, and the Nigeria Startup Act — widely recognised as an international best-practice model. A seasoned board member and author of Beyond Transformation Towards Digital Evolution and In Pursuit: Journeys in African Entrepreneurship, Oswald is a sought-after speaker at TEDx, the United Nations, BBC Africa, CNBC, and Wharton. His work is driven by a powerful conviction: the next startup to impact the world will start in an African village.