Professor Temu is a Tanzanian academic and development professional with an extensive research portfolio spanning institutions such as Sokoine University of Agriculture and the International Food Policy Research Institute. He has served as a visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, Illinois, Urbana Champaign and worked for the Capacity Building Unit of the Communication Department at the International Food Policy Research institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC, from 2003 to 2005.

He is an entrepreneur who worked with two other partners to establish what is now a profitable firm called Diligent Consulting Ltd (DCL). DCL is a highly reputed Tanzanian Development Consulting firm dealing with agriculture and agribusiness enterprises, SME development, and management of development projects and programs. Andrew Temu enjoys inspiring people to make progress in their businesses, professional and academic endeavours.

He has written and published on a wide variety of topics including those focused on participatory research and facilitation methodologies. His facilitation skills are not only endowed with great sense of humour but are also focused at involving learners as activity players in their own learning process. As a keen lover of African beat and reggae music, he part-timed as a disc jockey during his youth age and has volunteered as a Master of Ceremonies during social gatherings including a number of weddings. He cherishes the skills harnessed from such social undertakings and deploys them tactically in technical professional meetings.