Dr. Margaret Nyambura Ndung’u is a distinguished ICT expert with close to three decades experience spanning public, private, and development sectors. She has shaped key strategies and policies, in the digital space. She is a Senior Associate and the lead Kenya Partner for Research ICT Africa.
She is a founding member of the Network of African Women in Cybersecurity and actively participates in global digital policy discourses at the internet Governance Forum. She is a member of the Policy Network of Meaningful Access (PNMA). She seats in the Digital Innovation Board of the ITU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Alliance for Digital Development and the DPI Safeguards Advisory Board.
Through the Policy and Regulation Initiative for Digital Africa (PRIDA), she supported countries to establish Internet Governances (IG) systems and process and coordinated development of a contextualized IG curriculum that was used by over 30 Schools of Internet Governances at the national and regional level between 2020-2023.
Dr. Ndung’u holds a PhD in Information Systems; University of Nairobi and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa.