Abi Jagun is a Research Fellow in the Department of Management Science at the University of Strathclyde Business School. She gained her PhD from the University in 2006 following research into telecommunications and the structure of economic organisations, focusing in particular on the textile sector in Nigeria.

Abi worked until recently with the Association for Progressive Communications, as Africa Policy officer, and as a lecturer in the Institute for Development Policy Management at the University of Manchester. She has also worked in the Nigeria office of the international consultancy firm Accenture. Her research interest is in the impact of technology on society, particularly the ways in which mobile communications devices impact on socio-economic development.