Regional Facilitator: Africa

Steve is the regional facilitator for the Africa region and lives in South Africa. His experience includes rural  development, private sector business development and numerous consultancies to government, private sector and donor organisations in innovation and entrepreneurship. He has also founded and grown two start-up companies, run an incubator, presented training programmes on incubation and marketing and has been elected as a board member of the South African Business and Technology Incubator Association for two terms. Steve has an M.Sc degree in the life sciences and an MBA in Strategic Marketing.

E-mail Steve at sgiddings(at)worldbank.org