Samuel Edet is the founder of Colloq Initiative and a doctoral researcher at IMT School for Advanced Studies, Italy. His research interest spans economics of innovation, industrial organization, business strategy and machine learning in finance. He is a 2017 Nominee of the Thomson Reuters Excellence Award for student research in data science.

Professionally, he worked with Siemens as a business developer. He has a diploma in finance and investment from London Institute of Management and a business management certification from European School for Management and Technology (ESMT) business school.

He is keen on creating the right narrative of Africa; and interested in the leadership, education and industrial development of Africa.