Professor Temitayo Ogundipe is the Chairman of the Governing Board of the National Universities Commission (NUC), the regulator of Nigeria's university system. He is the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos and a Professor of Botany in the Faculty of Science at the University of Lagos, with an extensive academic and research background.
He is a fellow of several leading scientific academies and learned societies, including the Linnean Society of London.
At Blockfest Africa 2026, he joins us as a special guest, bringing decades of academic and administrative experience to the conversations shaping what's next in Africa's frontier tech.