Constance Agyeman - The intersection of innovation and international development in Africa.
Constance is Founder of GSTEP; Co-Founder of Partnership Bureau (Innovating collaboration); Associate Director at Challenge Works and Project Lead at Engineers Without Borders UK.
Constance has over 20 years-experience in the voluntary sector developing national and international programs which engage communities in addressing the issues that affect them. She has designed and delivered programs with the likes of USAID, World Bank, Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Cabinet Office.
She provides strategic innovation guidance and has delivered over 25 challenge prizes in fields such as agriculture in South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Social Innovation across Europe, UK prizes focused on Waste Reduction and Ageing populations, as well as youth focussed digital enterprise challenges.
At the heart of her work ethos is a practice of co-creation with communities and innovators, building effective stakeholder networks across a range of sectors to strengthen the market potential of products, technologies and services for sustainable and impactful change that help communities thrive.
Constance is engaged in a number of judging and speaker panels and was on the board of Trustees for Youth Music, serving disadvantaged youth. She also demonstrates her entrepreneurial spirit by running her own micro business.