Gedion Onyango

Gedion Onyango, PhD, is a Senior Advisor & Research Director at Civic Sphere Advisory, a Governance advisory firm that works with Governments and Institutions in Africa on policy and development programmes. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA), United Kingdom. In addition, he is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Moreover, he is a co-national investigator for Afrobarometer (Kenya). As a seasoned academic and researcher with a career spanning almost two decades, Gedion works within diplomatic cycles, research groups, and academic networks on areas of public policy, African politics, AI for Government, and Digital transformations. He has taught at the University of Nairobi (Kenya), where he served as a senior lecturer, and has also been a guest lecturer at other universities across Europe, Canada, and Africa. He is an expert in various funding bodies, research organisations, and international networks. He is also an associate editor for the Evidence & Policy Journal and sits on the editorial boards of many other international journals.