Chinny Francis is a Policy Programs Manager at Meta, leading AI, innovation, and wearables programming across Africa, the Middle East, and Türkiye. Over five years at the company, she has built and scaled some of Meta’s most impactful regional programs, from digital literacy initiatives that trained tens of thousands of young people and educators across eight countries, to economic empowerment efforts that reached millions of small businesses. She played a foundational role in Meta’s innovation and metaverse work in the region, and continues to drive AI adoption and advocacy among developers, startups, and policymakers.
