23-25 June 2026
Copenhagen
Stephen Little
Director, Centre for Pan-African Studies
Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies
Trustworthy AI and Data summit
Stephen Little is the founding Director of the Centre for Pan-African Studies, Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies, Lausanne and Adjunct Professor, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.
He holds a BSc in Architecture, an MSC in applied psychology from Aston University, UK and a PhD on the organisational impact of computer aided design from the Royal College of Art, London.
He has held full-time appointments in Information Systems at Griffith University Queensland, the University of Wollongong NSW, and Manchester Metropolitan University UK and in Knowledge Management at the Open University, UK. where he headed the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise and was a co-director of the cross-faculty Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development.
As Chair of the Asia Pacific Technology Network from 2008 to 2016, he participated in DTI High-Technology Fora between the UK, China, Japan and Sount Korea. As a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association and a Life Member of the International Sociological Association his research includes collaboration with the Atlas Experiment at Cern, Geneva and BHP Steel and Australian National Railways on knowledge management and knowledge-based systems and Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria on innovation systems.
He has written or edited eight books, published sixtyfour book chapters and journal articles and presented at over 100 academic conferences in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
He holds a BSc in Architecture, an MSC in applied psychology from Aston University, UK and a PhD on the organisational impact of computer aided design from the Royal College of Art, London.
He has held full-time appointments in Information Systems at Griffith University Queensland, the University of Wollongong NSW, and Manchester Metropolitan University UK and in Knowledge Management at the Open University, UK. where he headed the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise and was a co-director of the cross-faculty Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development.
As Chair of the Asia Pacific Technology Network from 2008 to 2016, he participated in DTI High-Technology Fora between the UK, China, Japan and Sount Korea. As a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association and a Life Member of the International Sociological Association his research includes collaboration with the Atlas Experiment at Cern, Geneva and BHP Steel and Australian National Railways on knowledge management and knowledge-based systems and Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria on innovation systems.
He has written or edited eight books, published sixtyfour book chapters and journal articles and presented at over 100 academic conferences in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.