Advisory Board

Dr. Christopher Kolade CON - Founding Patron/Chairman of the Advisory Board

Dr. Christopher Kolade, Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), is the Founding Patron and a Director of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative. He is the Pro-Chancellor, Pan-African University and a member of the governing council.

Dr. Kolade was the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2002-2007).  He was also the Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) as well as the Chief Executive, Executive Chairman and Chairman (non-executive) of Cadbury Nigeria Plc.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, Fellow, Society of Nigerian Broadcasters, Fellow, Institute of Directors (Nigeria) and has held the Presidency of these and many other professional bodies to which he belonged.  He also sits on the Board of several organisations including the Christopher Kolade Foundation (CKF); Transparency in Nigeria and the Convention on Business Integrity.

Segun Aganga – Founder

Segun Aganga, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Board of the Bretton-Woods Institutes, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs London. Prior to joining Goldman, Segun was at Ernst & Young for 22 years where he established and led the European Alternative Investment Management Practice.
Segun has been the Chairman of the London Investment Banking Association’s prime brokerage committee and the Alternative Investments Managers Association’s hedge fund committee.  He also sits on a number of boards including Technoserve.  He is the founder of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI).

Aminu Umar Sadiq – Associate, Denham Capital Management, UK

Asue Ighodalo – Managing Partner, Banwo & Ighodalo

Bola Adesola - Executive Director, Lagos Directorate, First Bank Nigeria

Dr. Titi Banjoko - Managing Director, Africa Recruit and Find a Job in Africa

Bridget Itsueli - Certified Counsellor and Mediator

Dapo Olagunji – Head, Group Treasury, Access Bank Nigeria

Dele Olojede – Executive Chairman, Timbuktu Media

Jacobs Ajekigbe - Former M.D & Chief Executive, First Bank

Jimi Morgan – Chartered Accountant and Financial Analyst

Maryam Uwais – Principal Partner, Wali-Uwais & Co

Nasir El-Rufai - Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Nigeria

Prof. Femi Oyebode – Head of Department of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham

Prof. Jacob Olupona – Prof of Arts and Sciences and Divinity School, Harvard University

Senator Udo Udoma – Former Chief Whip, Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria


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