Robert Tama Lisinge

Director, Technology, Innovation, Connectivity and Infrastructure Division (TICID)
Robert Tama Lisinge
Cameroon
Director, Technology, Innovation, Connectivity and Infrastructure Division (TICID)

Robert Tama Lisinge is an Engineer and a regional infrastructure development strategist. He is also a trade and transport facilitation specialist and a leading road safety expert in Africa. With over 20 years of experience in undertaking research, providing technical assistance and advising African countries and organisations in these areas, Mr. Lisinge’s Division is responsible for the ECA’s work on energy, transport and digital transformation. The Division’s work is situated at the intersection of frontier technology and economic transformation. It also deals with issues related to science and innovation.

Prior to his current position, he was the Chief of the Energy, Infrastructure and Services Section of ECA. He has also been the Chief of the Operational Quality Section of the Strategic Planning and Operational Quality Division of ECA.

Since 2000, Mr Lisinge has been actively involved in major infrastructure development initiatives in Africa, including the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), NEPAD Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative, and infrastructure and services flagship projects of African Union’s Agenda 2063, including the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM). He played a leading role in articulating the African Road Safety Action Plan (20211-2020) and the continent’s post-2020 Road Safety Strategy. He has represented the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in the Steering Committee of PIDA and Executive Board of the African Transport Policy Programme (SSATP); and is the Commission’s Focal Point for the United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund (UNRSTF). He also represents ECA in the Task Force created to develop a global Action Plan for the Second UN Decade of Action for Road Safety (2021-2030) and is a member of the FIA High-Level Panel Experts Group. 

Mr. Lisinge has made inputs to ECA’s flagship publications, published in peer-reviewed journals and delivered courses on transport infrastructure development at the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning in Dakar, Senegal. 

He holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Transportation Engineering. He also holds an MPhil and a Doctor of Business Administration Degree from the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands.