TEDxIfe

Speakers

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• Adesegun Fatusi

  Adesegun Olayiwola FATUSI is a public health physician and a Professor of Community Health at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (OAU). He is currently the Provost, College of Health Sciences, OAU. Prior to that, he was the Director of OAU’s Institute of Public Health (IPH). In addition, he has been serving as the Director of Population and Reproductive Health Programme (PRHP) – a partnership programme of OAU and Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA – since 2008. He is a Pastor at the Chapel of Grace, OAUTHC, Ile-Ife, where he oversees the Youth and Teen Ministry, among other responsibilities.

• 'Yemi Adamolekun

  ‘Yemi currently serves as the Executive Director of Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE), a coalition of individuals and youth-led organizations committed to instituting a culture of good governance and public accountability in Nigeria through advocacy, activism and the mobilization of the youth population as responsible citizens. EiE leverages technology to increase awareness and engagement around governance issues among Nigeria’s youth (18 – 35 year olds) which make up 50% of its population.

• Cynthia Mosunmola Umoru

  Cynthia Mosunmola Umoru is the Founder & Chief Implementation Officer of Honeysuckles PTL Ventures a company engaged principally in farming, food production, processing and distribution, a company she started right out of college. Ms. Umoru is a Zoology graduate from the Lagos State University (L.A.S.U). She is an Agrobusiness Entrepreneur who is extremely passionate about Food, Farming and the Community, proudly calling herself “A farmer”. The company runs its first flagship retail outlet under the Farmshoppe™ in Ikeja, Lagos. The companies’ products are a wide range of fresh farm products which includes poultry products like Chicken (broilers), smoked chicken, Turkey, eggs, snails, catfish (smoked and live) and vegetables.

• Tunji Lardner

  Mr. Lardner holds a Bachelor degree in Philosophy from the University of Lagos, and over the last twenty-five years gathered wide international experience including serving as an Adjunct Professor, Centre for New Media at the Columbia University School of Journalism (1996-8) and as a Research Fellow, Freedom Forum Media Studies Centre (1992-3) also at Columbia University. Mr. Lardner was also a Reuter Scholar/Knight Fellow with the Department of Communications at Stanford University (1988-9). Mr. Lardner is an Internet savvy and globally recognized media and communications expert, having managed complex communications advisory services for various countries including Nigeria, as well as a sought after public policy analyst with a deep and broad understanding of the uses and impact of new information technologies and communications paradigms in the process of good governance in transiting democracies. He is a TED Fellow and the Executive Director of WANGONeT a technology-based non-profit he founded in 2000. He currently sits on the board of Orun Energy, a promising business start-up focusing on providing alternative power for the Telecommunications sector in the developing world.

• Chude Jideonwo

  Chude Jideonwo was named by Forbes as one of Africa’s 30 best entrepreneurs under 30, His career is centred on using the media as an active tool to galvanise a generation of Africans to action. He is Managing Partner of RedMedia Africa, owners of The Future Africa Awards Africa & Summit, Y! Africa, and YNaija.com; and founding Executive Director of The Future Project, which empowers young people across Africa through leadership and enterprise. In 2010, he convened friends and colleagues to hold the historic EnoughisEnough protests and co-founded EnoughisEnough Nigeria, which has become the country’s foremost good governance group for young Nigerians.

• Maneesh Garg

  Maneesh Garg was born on 29th April 1971 in Nairobi Kenya. His family moved to Nigeria in 1975 and he did his early schooling in Lagos. Later on he went to the UK for further studies and obtained his degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford, UK. Subsequently He obtained his Master’s Degree in Economics at the North Western University, US. He had a brief stint at the World Bank, Washington DC before coming back to Nigeria in order to pursue his life long dream of entrepreneurship.

• Marek Zmyslowski

  Marek Zmyslowski, 28 years old, is the Managing Director of Jovago.com, Africa’s No 1. Booking Portal. He established the first branch of the company in Africa in August 2013. Before that, he successfully co-founded and exited online ventures in Poland. Being an enthusiast of African culture and economic development, Marek moved to Nigeria to become a part of the continent’s online revolution. He is an internet geek, fashion enthusiast, and sports addict. Marek is also a former snowboard instructor, holding a racing license.

• Ore Ajewole

  Ore Ajewole has been described as having a penchant for words. She is a fourth year student of psychology at Obafemi Awolowo University. She is from Ondo State and is the second of two children having never agreed to being called the last born. While reciting memory verses in front of her church audience at a young age, Ore discovered she was a lot more comfortable in front of a crowd than she ever was playing with her inanimate dolls. She has since gone on from reciting memory verses to interviewing Professor Wole Soyinka and starting her own talk show, The Ore Ajewole Show, in Obafemi Awolowo University.

• Richard Akinboyewa Akindolani

  AKINDOLANI, Akinboyewa Richard is a young man with a mission to reach out to many youths of this generation sharing the message of hope and self-discovery. He is a multiple award winning programmer. He is an I.T consultant and also a contract engineer to several I.T companies in Nigeria. He currently heads the software engineering section of Centre of Excellence in Software Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

• Adesegun Olayiwola Fatusi

  Adesegun Olayiwola FATUSI is a public health physician and a Professor of Community Health at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (OAU). He is currently the Provost, College of Health Sciences, OAU. Prior to that, he was the Director of OAU’s Institute of Public Health (IPH). In addition, he has been serving as the Director of Population and Reproductive Health Programme (PRHP) – a partnership programme of OAU and Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA – since 2008. He is a Pastor at the Chapel of Grace, OAUTHC, Ile-Ife, where he oversees the Youth and Teen Ministry, among other responsibilities.