Bio
Leslie Nii Lantey Mills is a research associate on the Negotiating Africa’s Digital Partnerships policy research project, led by Folashadé Soulé, hosted at the University of Oxford and supported by CIGI. Previously, he worked in the cabinet of the Togolese minister of digital economy and transformation, where he contributed to major public digital projects, including a pioneering digital cash transfer system that leveraged artificial intelligence and mobile payments to deliver shock-responsive social protection to vulnerable segments of the population. He earned an M.P.P. from the Hertie School in Berlin, where he served on the student advisory board of the Centre for Digital Governance and co-founded the Africa Policy Club. His research focuses on digital transformation and economic growth in developing countries. Currently, he works on policy communications at the Global Solutions Initiative, a global collaborative enterprise that proposes policy responses to major global issues addressed by the G20, G7 and other global governance fora.