Fellows
NLI currently has over 40 fellows; senior leaders and influencers in Nigeria and the Diaspora. This group is led by a 3-member Executive Board.
Fellows-Led Executive Board
Asue Ighodalo is founding and managing partner of Banwo & Ighodalo, a multidisciplinary firm with offices in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria which provides first-class legal advice on numerous aspects of corporate and commercial Nigerian law. He has a degree in economics from the University of Ibadan, another in Law from the London School of Economics and was admitted into the Nigerian Bar in July 1985. Asue sits on the boards of public and private companies and NGOs including the Christopher Kolade Foundation, Dangote Flour Mills Plc, FATE Foundation, Main Street Technologies Limited, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and Union Bank UK Plc.
Dr. Titi Banjoko is a Senior Research Associate at UK’s Foreign Policy Centre, member of the Migrant Advisory Board of the European Commission-United Nations Joint Migration and Development Initiative and Director of the AfricaRecruit programme. She sits on numerous boards including the selection panel on the International Health Links Funding Scheme (UK), the Department for International Development, the Global Poverty Action Fund, as well as a steering group on the Africa-UK project. She is also currently a healthcare manager in the NHS on the 2012 Olympic-Paralympics in London. Dr. Banjoko has over 15 years experience working on capacity building and diaspora initiatives.
Jinmi Morgan is a chartered accountant who has worked in the UK and Nigeria, with 15 years experience working on employment programmes and on capacity building initiatives. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Black Londoners School Governors and Parents Forum, the Greenwich Strategic Local Partnership, Shoreditch Business Forum (City Fringe) and Haggerston Community Forum. He is a member of the Reconstituted Presidential Task Force on Customs Reform, Nigeria. Jinmi currently works as founding member of Temple Crest, a financial services advisory and assurance boutique. Prior to that he worked at 3T Consulting and Ernst & Young. He was awarded a life membership of the Society for Aid to the Disabled, an NGO to assist disabled soldiers of the ‘Biafran’ war, at the end of his National Youth Service Corp year. Jinmi has initiated mutually beneficial engagement between Africa and Asia, one of which is CABS – China Awareness and Business Seminar.
