Maruf Sanni

Maruf Sanni is a Deputy Director of Research at the National Centre for Technology
Management (NACETEM), an agency of the Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and
Innovation, Nigeria. He has a PhD in Public Policy with focus on Environmental Sustainability
from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. His research examines economic
activities at the intersection of technological change and environmental sustainability.
Specifically, his field of research includes low-carbon innovation development pathways,
climate-resilient development, climate change policy. He served as a research fellow at the
United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, Accra, Ghana and
International Centre for Science and High Technology of the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization, Trieste, Italy. He recently completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions fellowship at the European Institute of Economics and the Environment, Milan, Italy.
His project, ECO-innovation and the Dynamics of External Knowledge Sourcing (ECO-DEKS),
examined the dynamics of alliance portfolio for eco-innovation in the manufacturing and service
sectors in the developing countries. He investigated points of departure or convergence between
the two sectors in open eco-innovation studies. Maruf is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
National Contact Point for Nigeria under Horizon Europe projects. He is currently the head,
Technology Management Education and Training Department at NACETEM.

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