Richard Folly
Founder And CEO at African Geospace
Lomé, Maritime Region, Togo
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Folly is a founder and CEO with eight years of experience building space and geospatial ventures that apply satellite data to climate resilience, agriculture, mining, and urban planning across Africa. He leads African Geospace to democratize high-resolution satellite analytics while also convening the continent’s space community as Managing Director of Space Forum Africa and serving on the board of lunar education nonprofit LunARC. His work blends public-sector experience — including geospatial project leadership at Togo’s Ministry of Digital Economy and a disaster-risk stint at NASA — with hands-on product and partnership building for governments, development agencies, and private industry. A Mandela Washington Fellow and Alibaba eFounders alum, he is as comfortable presenting at global conferences as he is designing data-driven systems that link early warning to early action. Less obvious: he combines academic grounding in geography with leadership training from ASU to translate technical satellite capabilities into policy-ready, locally owned solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership Institute, Leadership Institute at Arizona State UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Université de Lomé
French, ewe, English
Github Skills (3)
par6
open-data3
animation2
Github contributions (1)
datactivist/OpenDataMedias2
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 1 day
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