Ayo Omotayo is a Professor of Environmental Sustainability and the Director General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies.
[5][6] He contributes to the societal affairs of Nigeria through his writings on the environment, politics, ethics, policies towards sustainable national development.
[11] He also started his company, Netlynk Incorporated, a computer consulting firm in Atlanta-Georgia, developed Cashfast, a technology for international money transfer over the internet, and led the re-engineering of the IT system of Standard Trust Bank in Nigeria.
[12] Aside from academic endeavour, and environmental advocacy, Ayo is a serial entrepreneur and founder some companies which include Netlynk Incorporated, a computer consulting firm in Atlanta-Georgia after obtaining training and certification in Java programming, Novel Networking Engineering, and Microsoft Systems Engineering.
[13] He was nominated by Muhammadu Buhari and his appointment as the Director General of the National Institute was confirmed by the Senate of Nigeria.