Our role model: Obiageli Ezekwesili
Born April 28, 1963, Obiageli
Ezekwesili happens to be a Nigerian Chartered accountant, she is also a
Master’s degree holder of International Law and Diplomacy from the University
of Lagos as well as a Master of Public Administration degree from the Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University. She trained with the firm of Deloitte
and Touche and qualified as a chartered accountant. She was a co-founder of
Transparency Internation, serving as one of the pioneer directors of the global
anti-corruption body based in Berlin, Germany.
Oby served as Federal Minister of
Solid Minerals and then as Federal Minister of Education during the second term
presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo. Since then, she served as the Vice-President
of the World Bank’s Africa Division from May 2007-May 2012.
Ezekwesili was instrumental to
the start of the viral BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media which trended
internationally after nearly 300 mainly christian girls were abducted from
Chibok by the islamist militant group Boko Haram.
In March 2014, she delivered a
keynote speech at the National summit of the All Progressive Congress (APC) the
ruling party in Nigeria.
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