Mahuna Akplogan

Minister of Digital Transformation & Innovation, Republic of Benin (appointed May 2025); PhD in AI, University of Toulouse (2013); Co-Founder, iSHEERO. The newest and most significant AI appointment in West Africa — Benin's first minister with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. Responsible for Benin's National AI Strategy. Founded iSHEERO (2019), a data science and AI community, and co-founded Finco Digital (2024). Signals a bold African AI-first governance approach.