Our Advisory Board
Ahead of our launch on the 18th of December, 2021, we'd also love you to meet our advisory board.
Serah Makka-Ugbabe
Executive Director, Engagement and Mobilisation, ONE
Serah Makka-Ugbabe is ONE’s Executive Director, Engagement and Mobilisation. She leads ONE’s work on global campaigning and digital strategy as well as the coordination, growth, and engagement of ONE’s diverse and global supporter base.
Prior to this role, Serah was ONE’s Nigeria Country Director where she led the team to achieve success in the flagship Make Naija Stronger campaign resulting in an annual Federal fund for basic healthcare provision.
Before joining ONE, Serah worked in Afghanistan, the United States and Nigeria in the education sector, as a strategy and evaluation consultant and advising the Nigerian government. Her involvement in people powered campaigns began in Nigeria with the Occupy Nigeria movement, BringBackOurGirls and the EndSars movement. As a 2018 Archbishop Desmond Fellow, she focuses on amplifying citizen voices for better governance.
Serah is a Nigerian national. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of North Florida and a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Faith Nwadishi
Faith Nwadishi is the Founder and Executive Director of Koyenum Immallah Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria that champions the cause of extractives affected communities, women and youth. She is also the National Coordinator for Nigeria of Publish What you Pay (PWYP), and member of the African Steering Committee. She was recently reappointed to the Global Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) representing Anglophone African civil society actors.
Ms. Nwadishi was the first woman to graduate with a distinction in Civil Engineering at the Auchi Polytechnic in Nigeria.
Dayo Ibitoye
Communications and Knowledge management specialist, World bank
He has over 10 years of work experience in the International Development Sector. In 2017, he was part of the Federal Government’s Inter-ministerial Technical Committee on the Niger Delta chaired by the Vice President of Nigeria and part of the Federal Government’s team that engaged over 50 communities in the Niger Delta under the Niger Delta New Vision program. The engagements led to the development of the Niger Delta Strategic Implementation work plan (SIWP), a concerted development roadmap for the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He served as curator of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, a global youth platform for young people to shape the future.
He has worked across several international development projects and organizations including the UN Africa Borderland Center, GIZ, PIND Foundation and Mastercard Foundation.
Dayo holds a Master’s Degree in Media and Communication from the Pan Atlantic University and an Executive Education certificate in Public Narrative from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Olumide Abimbola
Executive Director of APRI - Africa Policy Research Institute.
Olumide Abimbola is a political economist and Executive Director of APRI - Africa Policy Research Institute. APRI is a Berlin-based, African think tank set-up to provide evidence-based recommendations to German/EU and African policymakers. He previously worked on trade and regional integration at the African Development Bank. He did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany and has degrees from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), Uppsala University (Sweden) and the University of Ibadan (Nigeria).
Dr. Aliyu Nuhu Ahmed is a Veterinary Doctor, philanthropist, and a partner with a host of business enterprises cutting across the technology industry, and commerce. He hails from Adamawa State, Nigeria.
He has been exceptional academically, graduating top of his class at the University of Ilorin and securing a direct PhD offer at one of the best Universities in the UK, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is ambitious, driven to succeed and respects no boundaries to achieving his vision.