Stephen Khan is the Student Enterprise Program Manager at African Leadership Academy. He holds an MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the University of Edinburgh, where he was a Mastercard Foundation Scholar, and a BA in International Business and Trade from African Leadership University, where he was a Mandela Centennial Scholar.
Before joining ALA, Stephen spent more than three years at ALU, most recently serving as Entrepreneurship Lab Faculty and Operations Lead at the Centre for Entrepreneurship. In this role, he designed and delivered entrepreneurship curriculum across 12 cohorts reaching more than 900 students, mentored more than 300 aspiring founders, and led the establishment of ALU’s Fabrication Lab to support hands-on product innovation.
Stephen has also organized and judged entrepreneurship competitions and hackathons across social innovation, health, and technology, including initiatives with JA Africa. His wider experience includes operations consulting on nature finance with FSD Africa, innovation consulting on the Scottish Government’s data maturity program, and founding Asili Group, a management consultancy serving clients across South Sudan, Rwanda, and Kenya. In 2023, he represented South Sudan as a youth delegate at the UN LDC5 policy negotiations in Doha.
