Charlie Martial Ngounou
President of AfroLeadership NGO, Coordinator of MyData Africa Network President of AfroLeadership NGO, Coordinator of MyData Africa Network
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Founder of AfroLeadership, a civil society organization promoting Democracy, Technology and Human Rights in Africa. I am an activist for Digital Rights, Internet Access, Open Governance, Accountability & Participation. As an international public finance expert (Worldbank, Expertise France, European union delegation), I lead a team of public finance experts for the Association Internationale des Maires Francophones (AIMF), as we implement a Public Finance Management System in Countries and Local Governments in francophone Africa. I am an Open Budget Survey Researcher for the International Budget Partnership (IBP) in Cameroon and Central African Republic. I am the focal point of International Observatory for Participatory Democracy (IOPD) in Central Africa. I am a member of the Board of Directors at People Powered, as we promote participatory democracy and participatory budgeting globally ; member of the Governing Board of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) ; member of the Independent Review Panel of Accountable Now ; member of the Stakeholder Advisory Group of the International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID) ; member of the High Level Scientific Board of the Africa Smart Cities Investment Summit (ASCIS).