Professor Dr Olinga Taeed

The world’s first blockchain professor at Birmingham City University

In March 2024 Olinga Taeed (PhD FIoD) was appointed Exec Chair of a US$ 200m ESG project in Kenya, Asili Coffee, curated by the country’s #2 retailer with 7000 staff and 60 supermarkets. He is Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance, the world’s leading not-for-profit think tank on the Movement of Value with over 220,000 members, and is Expert Advisor and Council Member of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s ‘Blockchain E-Commerce Committee’. He was the world’s first blockchain professor at Birmingham City University, and is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Blockchains (Switzerland), a peer review academic journal with 400+ editors. He is Chair of Arbor Verification Tech (ESG - London), MiMeta.Life (Metaverse), Bureau of Media Data and Ideology (Media – New York), and AizaWorld (Gaming – Hanoi); most recently he was appointed Chair of AITEA (AI - Beijing) populated by staff from tech giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. He has spoken at The Vatican which attributed him with the “God Metric – the fastest adopted social impact metric in the world”, and is Advisor to Wildcat Petroleum Plc, a London Stock Market listed company