David Sengeh

Activist, Artist, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Inventor, Musician, Technologist

David Moinina Sengeh is the minister of basic and senior secondary education and chief innovation officer for the government of Sierra Leone. He holds a bachelor’s and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Harvard College and MIT respectively. He is a TED Fellow, WEF Young Global Leader, Obama Foundation Leaders Africa Fellow and was included on the 2013 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Sengeh serves as Chairman of the Global Education Monitoring Report to UNESCO. Radical Inclusion is his first book (link below).

Public Service, Education, Technology

Cabinet decisions should be informed by applied data analytics and interactive visualization

Artificial Intelligence, Governance, innovation, Learning, Mechanical Interface Design, Prosthetics

I am a 2014 TED Fellow and 2018 Senior TED Fellow. I was on the advisory committee for TEDGlobal 2017 and spoken at various TEDx events. My wife and daughter are also TED attendees, it runs in the family

Designing my own clothes, writing lyrics and rapping (hip hop), playing ping pong, scrabble...