His Excellency Dr. Christopher Kolade, CON is Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. A veteran broadcaster and colonial era Education Officer, he has been, at different points of his career, Director – General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, Chief Executive and Chairman of Cadbury Nigeria Plc, and Lecturer in Corporate Governance and Human Resources Management at the Lagos Business School

Dr. Kolade has served in many national and international bodies, having been President of the Nigerian Institute of Management (1985- 88), the Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (1988- 93), the International Institute for Communications (1973 – 75) and the World Association for Christian Communication (1975-82). He received the medal of the Order of St. Augustine from the Archbishop of Canterbury (1981), and is also a Lay Canon of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in the Diocese of Guildford.

Born in Erin – Oke, Osun State in 1932, he completed his secondary school education at Government College, Ibadan after which he studied at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Prof. Alex Gboyega (Vice Chairman)

Prof Alex Gboyega is currently head of the department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan. He graduated from the University of Ghana, Legon with honours in Political Science and proceeded to obtain his doctorate also in Political Science from the University of Ibadan in 1975.

Professionally, he has consulted with a wide range of development organisations such as DFID, UNDP, World Bank on a vast range of state and national projects.

Prof. Gboyega has published many books and articles on the political scene in Nigeria and in Africa. He was born in 1946 and is married with three children.

Mrs Olusola Toyin Momoh

Olusola Toyin Momoh (Mrs), is a renowned Broadcast journalist with over twenty years experience in Television Journalism. Before Channels Television, Sola was at different times Reporter, Newscaster and Producer with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Africa’s largest Television Network.

It was at NTA that she produced several reports on oil spillage in the Niger – Delta communities. Her reports prompted the Federal Government to pay compensation to the restive victims of the area.

After NTA, Sola worked with International Merchant Bank where she established and headed the Corporate Affairs Department of the Bank. She also served in other departments of the bank including Treasury and Credit.

At Channels, where she works as Executive Director, Sola has continued to play a pivotal role in the formulation of policies and strategies that emphasise professionalism.

She is a director of several other companies including Mozes Nigeria Limited and Islanders Nigeria Limited. Olusola Momoh is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Nigerian Institute of Management and the Nigerian Britain Association

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo SAN

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN became the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State in 1999. Prior to that, he was a partner at the Law Firm of Osinbajo, Kukoyi & Adopaye, and Professor of Law and Head of Department of Public Law (1997 – 1999) at the University of Lagos. Prof. Osinbajo has served as the Special Advisor to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (1988 – 1991)

He has provided expertise and consulted with a wide range of development organisations such as the United Nations, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations/ United Nations Development Programme, United Nations African Institute for Crime Prevention and ECOWAS.

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is married and a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He and Mr. Olusoji Apampa founded INTEGRITY, the umbrella organisation of The Convention on Business Integrity.

Mr. Olusoji Apampa

Objectives

To advocate, participate in and lead development initiatives in Africa. To live a principled, disciplined life that is creative, productive, and visionary. To continuously review, refine or redefine what I do and who I am with respect to my mission.

Soji Apampa is currently CEO of RTA Intelligence Ltd, a business research, intelligence and ethical due diligence company. Prior to that he was managing director of SAP Nigeria Ltd, and Regional Manager (West Africa), for SAP where he worked for 8 years since early 1999.

Experience

2000-2006 SAP Africa Abuja
Managing Director (SAP, Nigeria)
Managing and controlling all SAP, Nigeria’s affairs.Promoting relationships with major development partners in Africa to reposition SAP from “Software Vendor” to “Development Partner” in the area of ICT supported reforms.

2001- 2006 SAP Africa Johannesburg
Solution Manager (Government, Utilities & Telecos)
One of the Pinnacle Award winners for over achievement in SAP Africa for 2002 as a whole.
Supporting the SAP regional offices in Africa as an expert resource in the above sectors: Lagos(West Africa), Nairobi ( Uganda, Kenya &Tanzania), Harare( Zimbabwe, Zambia & Malawi), Windhoek, Johannesburg( Angola & Mozambique) .

1995-To date INTEGRITY Lagos
Director
Acted as resource to the World Bank Institute on giving a Civil Society organisations’ insight into the role service delivery and service delivery surveys (especially at the local government level) can play in the PRSP process, during the September 2001, Africa PRSP conference in Dakar, Senegal.
Was chosen by the British Council Nigeria as one of the 13 participants from Nigeria and South Africa on the Africa Future Leaders Programme, in Manchester 2001.

Education
1984-1987 Sheffield University South Yorkshire, UK.
B.Eng( Hons) Civil & Structural Engineering.
1996 Alliance Francaise Lagos.
December 1996. Certificate Elementaire De Francais Pratique (C.E.F.P) and Diplomae de Langue (DL) from Alliance Francaise Lagos, Nigeria.

Hobbies
Keen interest as a participant in various equestrian sports (especially Polo).
Plays Acoustic Guitar. Speaks fluent English, French and some Swedish.

Ms. Ifueko Omoigui

Ms Ifueko M. Omoigui, MON, is the Chief Responsibility (Executive) Officer of ReStraL Ltd., a foremost leadership and management company. Ifueko has over twenty years experience in professional accounting, taxation, strategic management consulting, individual leadership experience and change management.

Ms. Omoigui is an active member of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group and serves on the board of several community and entrepreneurial development organisations.

She holds a first class honours in Accounting from the University of Lagos and a Master’s Degree in Management Science from Imperial College, England as a Commonwealth Scholar.

Professor Ladipo Adamolekun: Independent Scholar

Areas of professional competence and interest

Public sector governance and management issues including civil service and administrative reform, anti-corruption, decentralization, institutional development, international development management, federalism, and politics of development .

Education

University of Ibadan, Nigeria (B.A French); Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria (M.Phil. Public Administration), and University of Oxford, England (D. Phil. Politics)

Current Employment

Professor of Management (part-time, contract appointment) at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria

Honours and Distinctions include:

College Scholar at the University of Ibadan (1965-1968); Rockefeller Scholar at the University of Oxford (1969-72), Fulbright scholar, Washington, D.C and Los Angeles, U.S.A., November 1982-June 1983; Rockefeller Scholar in Residence, Bellagio study center, Italy, September-October, 1983; and Vice-president, International Association of schools and institutes of Administration ( IASIA), 1980-86 and 1998-2004

Public Service (National and International)

National: Served between 1975 and 1986 on many Nigerian federal and state governments committees, councils and boards dealing with issues in the field of public affairs.

International: served between 1973 and 1986 as consultant to several international bodies, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations and the World Bank, and also to the Government of the Republic of Tanzania

FELIX OMOIKHOJE OHIWEREI (OFR)

Mr. Felix Ohiwerei was born on 18th January, 1937 in Oke Old Site, Owan West LGA of Edo State. He obtained his BA in Geography from the University of Ibadan, formerly University College, Ibadan in 1961.

He has attended numerous international courses, which include, Unilever Senior Finance Awareness Course, UK, 1987, Senior Executive Programme, University of Southern California, USA, 1980 and others. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree (LL.D) by the University of Ibadan in November 1997. He has also received the ZIK Prize in Leadership.

Mr. Ohiwerei is a Fellow of some Professional Institutes and business associates such as Nigerian Marketing Association, Geography Society of Nigeria and the Institute of Directors. He is a member of Council of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Nigerian Economic Summit Board of Directors. He was a member of the Vision 2010 Committee and served as Rapporteur, Sub Committee on Anti-Corruption as well as the Sub Committee on the Vision Statement.

He is currently the chairman of a number of companies, which include Nigerian Breweries Plc, Unilever Nigeria Plc and Virgin Nigeria Airways Limited. He is also the chairman of Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission.

He is married with four children. His interests include aerobics, swimming and Christian Fellowship

Sandra Mbanefo Obiago

Education

Executive Development Program

Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

2003  -  Two week intensive course focusing on business & leadership skills.

1991 -  Present Attended numerous seminars on management, corporate communications, time management, train the trainer, team building, effective recruitment, etc.

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

1988  Master of Arts in Telecommunication

Award winning thesis: educational film on how bills become law which was produced

1985  Bachelor of Education in English & German

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

1981  High School Diploma

July  1998  to present Pioneer Executive Director

COMMUNICATING FOR CHANGE (CFC), Lagos, Nigeria

Founded a new grass –roots organization committed to raising Africans’ awareness of environment and development issues through creative television, radio, print, market research, capacity building and campaigns

June  1994 - June  1998 Regional Manager, VWF Africa Communications Network

WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE INTERNATIONAL, Lagos, Nigeria.

1994.  Africa Communications Officer

WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE INTERNATIONAL, Gland, Switzerland.

Interests

Literature & Poetry

Photography

Scuba-diving

African art

Ibukun Awosika

Mrs. Ibukun Awosika is a graduate of Chemistry from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife). She is also an alumna of the Chief Executive Programme of Lagos Business School as well as the Global Executive MBA Programme of the prestigious IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.

She is the founder of The Chair Centre Ltd, a market leader in the office furniture and banking security systems industries. In 2005, she was appointed the MD/CEO of Sokoa Chair Centre Ltd, a joint-venture company she promoted with Sokoa S.A of France, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, The Chair Centre Ltd, and some local investors after the ban on importation of furniture by the federal government of Nigeria in 2004.

In addition, she independently established another ultra-modern furniture facility, Furniture Manufacturers’ Mart, in Ikeja, Lagos in the latter part of 2006.

She is the host of the popular TV programme, Business – His Way, where she teaches the business community ethical business principles based on the Word of God.

She is an ordained pastor at The Fountain of Life Church. She is also the Founder of Christian Missionary Fund, a non-governmental body dedicated to raising support for Christian missionaries across the country.

She is the current Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ). She is also the Chairperson of Intermac, the organisers of SmartCard Conferences in Nigeria.

She is the Chairman of Afterschool Graduate Development Centre (AGDC), a national career centre in Lagos, Nigeria, which was set up in September 2007 to address the high rates of unemployment in the country by making Nigerian graduates employable and good assets to the Nigerian economy.

Ibukun Awosika is a nominee and recipient of a number of awards, some of which include:

1. Nominee, Entrepreneur of The Year (2005), THISDAY Newspaper’s Annual Merit Award
2. Nominee, The Best Female Entrepreneur of the Year (2006) courtesy: Financial Standard and Pan-African Organisation for Women Recognition (POWR)
3. Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2005, Success Digests Magazine’s Annual Enterprise Award.
4. FATE Model Entrepreneur Award for the year 2006, courtesy: FATE Foundation.

She is married to Abiodun Oludola Awosika, and their marriage is blessed with three children – all boys.