Professor Landry Signé is a world-renowned professor, award-winning author, innovative educator, distinguished futurist, and extraordinary global leader who has won over 80 prestigious awards and distinctions, authored over 200 diverse publications and manuscripts, and delivered over 1,000 keynotes and thought leadership engagements, including testimonies before the United States Senate and the U. S. House of Representatives. He has extensive and impactful experience at top institutions such as Stanford University, the University of Oxford, Brookings Institution, Georgetown University, and the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and co-chaired initiatives for the World Economic Forum, among others.
He is widely recognized for his bold strategies bridging ideas and actions to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges while seizing opportunities related to the global political economy; global governance and multilateralism; the Fourth Industrial Revolution, AI and emerging technology, and how they transform governments, industries, and societies; the future of technology policy; global business and emerging markets; and the political economy of development and Africa, building inclusive prosperity and sustainability worldwide.
He was named one of the World Economic Forum’s “top [50] foremost future-oriented leaders” in the world, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for “finding innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues,” one of the “100 Most Influential Africans in the world” and “Thought leader extraordinaire” by New Africa Magazine, one of the “most creative thinkers” (Carnegie Corporation of New York), and one of “Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential Academics in Government” in the world, among others.
He is Executive Director and Professor at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Washington, DC, as well as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University, Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Regional Action Group for Africa, Co-Chair of the WEF Friends of the AfCFTA, and member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Technology Policy, among others. He is also a Senior Adviser to top global leaders (presidential, ministerial, and C-suite levels) and the author of numerous books published by the world’s #1 ranked academic press in the field (Cambridge University Press).
As the world converges for COP28, Africa stands at a critical juncture in its fight against climate change. At COP27, the resounding call echoed across the continent and beyond: bridging ...
Transformative change is underway in the African automotive industry as trade begins under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
The COVID-19 pandemic brushed away any doubt as to the importance of functioning and productive pharmaceutical industries.
African logistics have struggled to cater to the country’s growing population and dynamic private sector for far too long. New research suggests that is about to change — and the benefits...
Agriculture accounts for roughly one-third of the African continent’s GDP, provides a livelihood for 50% of the population and feeds hundreds of millions of people on the continent and be...
At a time of multiple, overlapping global challenges – from climate change to energy shocks to rising inflation and a cost-of-living crisis – the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFT...
From pandemic to global conflict, misinformation to inflation, climate change to culture wars - the world is facing a period of broad structural uncertainty. Amidst these less certain, mo...
Although technology regulation is evolving rapidly in today's world, such regulation remains greatly fragmented across national and regional divides. Agile governance can potentially solv...
A new report from the Brookings Institution explores how agile governance can help promote innovation in precision medicine while protecting the public from unintended consequences. Preci...
At a time when the United States, once a standard bearer of multilateralism, is embracing protectionism, Africa has taken a bold step in the opposite direction, creating the world’s large...
African leaders have just signed a framework establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, the largest free trade agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organisation.
Since 2000, at least half of the world’s fastest-growing economies have been in Africa. And by 2030, Africa will be home to 1.7 billion people, whose combined consumer and business spendi...
