Femi Longe
Global Bitcoin Lead at Human Rights Foundation
Femi Longe is a serial social entrepreneur, innovation consultant, service designer, learning scientist and startup coach. He is currently works on the Financial Freedom team at the Human Rights Foundation. In his role as Global Bitcoin Lead, he leads strategy and execution of the HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund.
Previously, Femi was the CEO of QALA Africa (recently acquired by Btrust), an engineering training programme that helped African software developers transition to a career in Bitcoin & Lightning development, which was acquired by Btrust & transformed into Btrust Builders.
Prior to joining the Bitcoin ecosystem, Femi co-founded & remains a non-executive Director at Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), Africa’s leading social innovation centre and tech hub. For 9 years, he served as CcHub’s Director of Innovation, leading corporate innovation & social innovation engagements that brought clients (multinational corporations, SMEs, non-profits & multilateral agencies) into deep engagement with the African startup ecosystem to create new value and tackle interesting problems. Femi has an MSc in EdTech/Learning Science from Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI) at Universite Paris Cite.
