Previously was director of Knowledge management and ICT services at the Association of African Universities based in Accra, Ghana where Dr Hoba also served as Coordinator of the Europe-Africa quality Connect project and the Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) programme from which he is credited for initiating the Open Access process with the DATAD programme as a regional repository center. Before he joined AAU he worked as programme officer at ADEA/IIEP/UNESCO Head office in Paris France.
With over 18 years’ experience in Higher Education, Dr Hoba has served on a number of Africa-wide initiatives and boards such as the ICT Advisory Committee of the Pan African/Indian e-Network Project at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa; and the Executive Committee of the Pan-African Leadership Institute for Library;
He has authored several scientific papers on strategic information for decision making and edited a number of books including: The Contribution of Higher Education to National Educational Systems: Current Challenges for Africa published in 2007; Agents in Development, African Higher Education Networks and Policy Entrepreneurship published in 2010; Why Should We Worry About Brain Drain Journal of the European Higher Education Area, 2011, No. 4 www.ehea-journal.eu 21 Sturdy report: Sub-Saharan Africa Higher Education Leadership Development, published-Jan 2013 Rebuilding Higher Education Institutions institution in post conflict context published 2015.
He graduated from Law school of Aix en Provence, France he also holds a Masters Degree and PhD in Scientific and Technical Information from the University of Marseilles in France where he also worked as Lecturer and researcher at the faculty of sciences.