Sarah Egbo is a gender and development expert with over six years of experience in the non- profit sector. She has a master's in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, United Kingdom. She is also a Chevening Scholarship alumna. She emphasizes that her educational experience at Sussex taught her invaluable knowledge and skills. The ongoing support from the university's dedicated staff and alumni network, sets it apart from studying elsewhere.
Marketing Team
Marketing Team
Shola Amoo
Shola studied at The National Film and Television School. His debut feature film, A Moving Image, had its World Premiere at The LA Film Festival 2016 in competition for the World Fiction prize, received The Special Recognition Award at The Blackstar Film Festival and won the 2017 Screen Nation Award for the best independent production. Shola is currently developing a feature film called The Last Tree with the BFI.
Stephen Oke
Legal Practitioner
Cherish Ibeh
CherStunner
CherStunner is a FashTech brand that creates unique designs with the beauty of the woman in mind. Her aim is to flaunt the uniqueness and confident in every woman with comfortable, simple and trendy designs. As an advocate of body positivity and inclusiveness, her clothing line will use digital modelling to ensure sustainable consumption and production.
Chiamaka Chinwendu
Chiamaka is a certified project management professional and social sector manager with a background in Consulting and Development. Currently serving as Project Manager, Nigeria at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she coordinates nationwide projects and drives Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives across the Africa team. She has also implemented programs like LEAP Africa across Africa. She holds a master’s in development economics and policy from the University of Manchester.
Lampe Omoyele
Managing Director, 141 Worldwide
Lampe Omoyele is a respected marketing expert with over 25 years’ experience gained with leading multinational companies.
Mr. Omoyele has held numerous leadership positions such as marketing director roles at Cadbury, Airtel, PZCussons and Glaxo SmithKline and Managing Director, Nielsen West Africa. He is currently Managing Director, 141 Worldwide and Co-creator, the Lucent Consulting Company
Oladotun Olatunji
Business Analyst, Mobile Money & Special Projects (Digital Channels)
Oladotun holds MSc Sustainable Development from University of St Andrews. His MSc dissertation focused on enhancing market access for rural smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. He dreams of a time when there is collective effort by all global stakeholders, through result-driven actions, in the implementation of pro-poor policies which the poor become economically active, enable generation of sustainable income for households through agriculture and enhance accessibility to quality food.
Tolu Alalade Mosunmola
Educator, Lagos City Senior College, Sabo-Yaba
Tolu Alalade Mosunmola #WorldOfThanks story was selected as outstanding. Her story was written in appreciation of her Biology teacher in secondary who impacted her in her teenage years and whose lessons are now an inspiration for her now as a Biology teacher.
Read her full #WorldOfThanks story here
Victoria Thomas
Victoria is a filmmaker based in the UK with a filmography that spans across both short and long form content across fiction and documentary which have screened at festivals internationally, broadcast on TV and garnered awards and nominations including BAFTA Scotland. Her film discovery app, which she founded in response to the difficulties faced by independent filmmakers to get their films to audiences won the first ever Canon Innovation award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Blessing Omakwu
Policy Consultant/Blogger, www.blessingomakwu.com
Blessing Omakwu, Esq. works as a Policy Consultant. She has completed projects for The Presidency, The Nigerian Permanent Mission to the UN, The National Planning Commission, The National Human Rights Commission and UNDP Nigeria. She also runs a blog where she explores the intersection of gender equality with public policy, popular culture, religion and literature. Her global vision for change is 'A world where gender equality is achieved and women’s rights are upheld'.