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Tamilore is the Project Administrator for the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy.
Tamilore has over nine years of experience in program management across technology, policy, and social impact, delivering a range of projects focused on technology-enabled economic opportunity and inclusive urbanism. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government and is currently producing a video podcast series on solutions to unemployment in Africa as part of the Future of Development programme at the Oxford Martin School.
Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, she started her career with degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from Covenant University and the University of Kent. She spearheaded urban resilience and development projects in local nonprofits supported by international organisations like Heinrich Böll Foundation, Open House Worldwide and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). Realising the urgency and far-reaching effects of economic inequality, she transitioned from the built environment to focus on economic development. From 2019 - 2023, she led strategic giving in Emerging Markets across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region on Google’s technology-focused philanthropic team. She managed a USD 40M+ grants portfolio focused on projects that improve economic well-being in underserved communities.
Her work includes initiatives such as setting up a COVID-19 relief fund that supported 115,000 beneficiaries at the height of the pandemic, delivering 50,000 digital skills scholarships in 20+ countries across EMEA, supporting skills acquisition interventions for 60,000 farmers in rural Kenya, providing cash grants and entrepreneurship training to 1,000 African women entrepreneurs, a grant harnessing AI and satellite data for water reuse in the Middle East and North Africa, and funding the launch of the African Scholars Program under the Jobs and Opportunity Initiative at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).