Prof. Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim

Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, is a Nigerian politician , who was minister of Communications and Digital Economy from 2019 to 2023. He also was director general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) of Nigeria from 26 September 2016 to 20 August 2019, before he was nominated as minister and sworn into office on 21 August 2019.

Career
Pantami was a lecturer at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi in Information Technology before joining the Islamic University of Madinah at the new faculty of Computing and Information Systems as Head of Technical Writing in 2014.

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy
After President Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected and his cabinet reshuffled in 2019, Pantami was appointed to become the first Minister of Communications and Digital Economy after the renaming of the title to include “Digital Economy”.

Pantami is a fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and the Nigeria Computer Society (FNCS).

Pantami assumes Chairmanship of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum in May 2022. This followed the inauguration by the Secretary General of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at Geneva, Switzerland.