Dr Olunifesi Adekunle Suraj is a New/Digital/Social Media Thought Leader, an ICT & Multimedia Consultant and a Knowledge/Intellectual Capital Management Expert who has been at the vanguard of promoting Internet Neutrality and Cyber Safety for the past 2 decades.

He is the Executive Director of African Center for Media and Intercultural Dialogue (ACMID) and founding executive member of Media and Information Literacy Coalition of Nigeria (MILCON).

He is one of the leading African scholars and thought leaders on Media and Information Literacy. He serves as a member of UNESCO/UN Global Expert Group on addressing hate speech through Education and UNESCO committee member on disinformation and fake new. Dr Olunifesi is the present National Coordinator of the UNESCO-initiated Universities Network on Media and Information Literacy (African Chapter), and also the UNESCO National Coordinator for Media and Information Literacy’s Curriculum intervention in Nigerian Universities.

He believes a critical understanding of the media will help moderate the vices in the social media while promoting the ideas of open society and liberal democracies. Also, Olunifesi has done extensive work in the areas of Media and Information Literacy especially in areas of Social media, Strategic Communication and freedom of expression. His work on ICT and Telecommunication policies emphasizes Broadband Infrastructure Investment Policies as a driver of national development, equitable digital access and citizens economic empowerment in achieving United Nations SDGs.

He has equally initiated a series of researches on knowledge / intellectual capital management as an alternative and effective means of managing service and knowledge intensive companies.

As an international expert, he is a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM), International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Global Knowledge Research Networks(GKRN), International Association of Knowledge Management for Development (KM4D) among others. He has also been appointed as the Research Consultant and Partner to Digital Bridge Institute, an international training arm of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) and Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information.

He has 31 publications (including 6 technical papers) published locally and internationally to his credit. He is a mentor, seasoned speaker, award winning consultant, and reviewer of top rated international journals.