Temidayo Oniosun is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. He is the founder and managing director of Space in Africa, a market intelligence firm in the African space and satellite industry. With about a decade of experience, Oniosun is an advisor to governments and commercial space entities across the industry value chain. He has spearheaded numerous strategic and policy consulting projects, including baseline studies for the African Union Commission on the four space segments, assessing the socioeconomic impact of establishing the African Space Agency, and developing a commercialization strategy for AngoSat-2 for the Angolan National Space Management Office. Oniosun’s contributions to the space sector have earned him recognition as a 2020 Karman fellow and a 2021 Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 honoree. His insights on African space and satellite programs have been featured on major media outlets such as the BBC, CNN, CNBC, CGTN, Al Jazeera, Forbes Africa, and Voice of America.

Oniosun holds a BTech in meteorology from the Federal University of Technology Akure in Nigeria, a master’s degree in satellite applications from the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom, and a PhD from the University of Delaware. Oniosun is a research affiliate at MIT Media Lab and a 2025-2026 member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Space Technologies. Before Space in Africa, he served as the African regional coordinator for the Space Generation Advisory Council.