Global Health Institute

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Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is a social entrepreneur and leader whose work has shaped the landscape of African development, agribusiness, and youth empowerment. In this conversation, she will share insights from her leadership of the ONE Campaign, her efforts to support African entrepreneurs and agribusiness innovation, and her decades-long commitment to supporting leaders across the continent.

Featuring

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, MBA, is the president and chief executive officer of the ONE Campaign. Nwuneli started her career at McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office and returned to Nigeria in 2000 to serve as the pioneer executive director of the FATE Foundation. She is the founder of LEAP Africa, a non-profit committed to developing dynamic, innovative, and principled African leaders, and African Food Changemakers, which provides support for African entrepreneurs to start and scale resilient and sustainable agribusinesses. She is also the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. and AACE Foods Processing & Distribution Ltd.

John T. Monahan, J.D., is a senior advisor to the Georgetown University Global Health Institute, a professor in the Department of Medicine, a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and a senior scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.

This event is hosted through Georgetown University’s Conversations in Health: Global to Local class, which invites global health professionals to Georgetown’s campus to engage in discussions regarding their career paths and expertise.