Presley Ifukor (PhD, Osnabrueck, Germany) is the founding Chair and Research Director of ABCFED. In January 2011, he represented the African Good Governance Network (AGGN) in the Dutch Parliament, the Hague, the Netherlands, at the public hearing of the Economic and Agriculture Committee and the Committee for Foreign Affairs on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in West Africa.

In November 2011, he secured funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (German: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) to organize and execute a workshop in Lagos, Nigeria on the theme of "Enabling Youths and Women for Civic Engagement". His academic publications on the affordances of social media in elections in Nigeria are highly regarded. He is an expert reviewer for many academic journals.

He is a competent multilingual and proficient in English, German, Yoruba, Edo, Ukwuani (an Igboid language) and Nigerian Pidgin. He has a basic knowledge of French. His linguistic competence has been an asset to his professional and academic work.

His previous work experience at a homeless shelter in Edmonton ensures that he has first-hand knowledge about the challenges confronting vulnerable and marginalized populations in Alberta and Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Ms. Temitope Onitiri is a member of the Advisory Board. Temitope has over 19 years experience working in one of the big four accounting firms. Her role as an Audit Partner includes setting the direction and taking overall responsibility for the successful execution of audits, liaising with different stakeholders, motivating her team and providing leadership to solve complex business problems in a systematic manner. She has a deep understanding of the client's business and their industry. This also includes a deep understanding of the processes, controls, corporate governance and key risk areas relating to financial reporting.

She has worked with companies in various sectors including Consumer goods, industrial markets, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, property development, Media/Advertising, Aids and Development, Quick Service Restaurants, shipping and telecoms. Her clients also include owner-managed, local corporates, large multi-nationals and Bi/Multi-lateral donor agencies. She is also the Head of CSR in her organization. She was entrusted with this responsibility based on her passion for CSR and her experience working for clients in the Aids and Development sector which helped develop her understanding of key project/program objectives and how activities are aligned to have outcomes that meet these objectives. Under her leadership as the Head of CSR, she has achieved initiatives that have improved employee engagement, encouraged and rewarded individual employee CSR initiatives and fostered collaboration and partnerships with other organizations.

Temitope is a graduate of accounting from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is a current Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) student of Said Business School, UK. She is a mother and happily married.

Dr. Quan-Haase is a Full Professor and Associate Dean of Sociology and Information and Media Studies at Western University. She is the director of the SocioDigital Media Lab and her work focuses on social change, social media, and social networks, with a keen interest in novel methodologies.

She engages in interdisciplinarity, knowledge transfer, and public outreach. She is the coeditor of the Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (Sage, 2022), coeditor of the Handbook of Computational Social Science (Routledge, 2022), coauthor of Real-Life Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2020), and author of Technology and Society (Oxford University Press, 2020). Dr. Quan-Haase has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Quan-Haase is past chair of the Communication, Information Technology, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association and past president of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Through her policy work she has cooperated with the Benton Foundation, Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Canada's Digital Policy Forum.

Dr. Quan-Haase is also a frequent expert commentator and resource for mass media outlets including The Globe and Mail, CBC, Vice, CTV, Global News, Financial Post, The Huffington Post, and many others.

Dr. Joseph Dele Atoyebi is an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts, Business, and Science, University College of the North, The Pas campus, Manitoba. Dr. Atoyebi earned his doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Leipzig, Germany. His research areas include the documentation / preservation of endangered or lesser-known languages.

He is currently a co-researcher on a SSHRC-Canada-funded Partnership on University Plagiarism Project (PUPP). As part of his community service, Dr. Atoyebi is on the advisory board of The Pas Immigration Service. He also gives public workshops on the roles of the talking drum in the Yoruba culture, especially in February during Black History Month.