Director General of the National Identification Agency (ANID)

Chef de bataillon Silété Roselin DEVO

Since 2020, Major Silété Roselin DEVO has headed Togo’s National Identification Agency. He leads the country’s national biometric identification programme (e-ID), carried out under the regional WURI programme, which is building sovereign digital public infrastructure. A senior officer in the Togolese Armed Forces, he has served in an operational unit, at Army headquarters and in peacekeeping operations. In 2018, he joined the General Secretariat for Administration of the Ministry of National Defence as chief of staff and special adviser. He thus combines a security culture with experience in leading major state transformation projects. A graduate of the Saint-Cyr Special Military School, he holds a master’s degree in international law from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Nantes. He is also a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Strasbourg (Sciences Po Strasbourg) and of the École nationale d’administration (now the Institut national du service public), after academic studies in Togo and France. He is also an ID4Africa Ambassador. His areas of expertise cover digital identity and digital public infrastructure, biometric systems, personal data protection, cybersecurity governance and public administration modernisation. They also extend to international law and defence and security issues.