Founders

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Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, PhD, FSAN

Founder & Chancellor, Baze University

Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is a Nigerian entrepreneur, education founder and institution builder best known for establishing Baze University in Abuja. He founded the…

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Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe

Founder, University of Nigeria

Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe's contribution to the University of Nigeria was the creation and advancement of a university project intended to give Nigeria an autonomous…

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Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion

Founder & Chancellor, Igbinedion University Okada

Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion is a Nigerian businessman whose institution-building activities have extended into education, with Igbinedion University Okada representing his most consequential contribution to…

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Fred Swaniker

Founder & CEO, ALX

Fred Swaniker is a Ghanaian entrepreneur and educationist whose work has focused on developing African leadership and expanding access to education and career opportunities.…

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Sultan Akintunde

Co-Founder, AltSchool Africa

Sultan Akintunde is a Nigerian technology professional and entrepreneur who co-founded AltSchool Africa with Adewale Yusuf in 2021. His role in the company has…

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Adewale Yusuf

Co-Founder & CEO, AltSchool Africa

Adewale Yusuf is a Nigerian entrepreneur and technology executive whose work has focused on building platforms around African technology, talent and education. He founded…

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Shannon May

Co-Founder & President, NewGlobe

Shannon May is an American anthropologist, researcher and education entrepreneur who co-founded NewGlobe with Jay Kimmelman and Phil Frei. Her doctoral research in anthropology…

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Jay Kimmelman

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, NewGlobe

Jay Kimmelman is an American entrepreneur and technology executive who co-founded NewGlobe with Shannon May and Phil Frei. Before NewGlobe, Kimmelman founded and led…

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Dr. Oladega Adelowo Adebogun

Founder & Visitor, Caleb University; Chairman, Caleb Group of Schools

Dr. Oladega Adelowo Adebogun is a Nigerian educationist and entrepreneur who founded Caleb University and established the wider Caleb education group. His career in…

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Mrs. Lai Koiki

Founder & CEO, Greensprings School

Lai Koiki is a Nigerian educationist and entrepreneur who founded Greensprings School in Lagos in 1985. The school began with three pupils as a…

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Afe Emmanuel Babalola

Founder & President, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti

Afe Emmanuel Babalola is a Nigerian lawyer and educationist whose career in law and university governance preceded the establishment of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti.…

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David Olaniyi Oyedepo

Chancellor & Chairman, Board of Regents, Covenant University

David Olaniyi Oyedepo is a Nigerian clergyman, author and institution builder whose work in higher education is closely associated with the establishment and development…

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