2006 Fellows
- Bola Adesola – Fmr Executive Director, Lagos Directorate, First Bank of Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria.
- Olusegun Adeniyi – Journalist, and Author – Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard Univ, USA; Fmr, Special Adviser to the Presidency on Communications. Former Editor, THISDAY, Lagos, Nigeria Member, Nigeria’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
- Professor Tayo Akinwande – Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. Recipient of the 1996 National Science Foundation Career Award.
- Dr Festus B. Dada – Surgeon. President of Crown Medical Group, California, United States.
- Gboyega Delano – Entrepreneur. President & Chief Executive Officer Ilora L’Original Beauty Concepts Inc, Chicago, United States. Former Vice President Soft Sheen / L’Oreal (the largest manufacturer of beauty products in the world). 2006 Chicago Minority Business Man of the Year.
- Nasir El-Rufai – Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. Former Chief Executive of the Bureau of Public Enterprises and Member of President Obasanjo’s Economic Team. Recipient of a national honour – OFR.
- Tony Elumelu - Chairman, Heirs Holding Limited; Fmr GMD, United Bank of Africa (one of West Africa’s largest banking networks), Lagos, Nigeria.
- Asue Ighodalo – Leading capital markets lawyer, Managing Partner, Banwo & Ighodalo, Lagos, Nigeria.
- Bridget Itsueli – Certified Counsellor & Mediator. Proprietor, Lagos Resource Centre, Lagos, Nigeria.
- Reverend Matthew Kukah – Scholar, negotiator and renowned public affairs analyst. Vicar General, Catholic Archdiocese, Kaduna, Nigeria. Served as Secretary to the National Political Reform Conference in 2005.
- Jimi Morgan – Chartered Accountant and Financial Analyst, London, United Kingdom.
- Major–General Sarki Mukhtar – Fmr National Security Adviser to the President of Nigeria – Retired military officer & diplomat. Has held many senior positions in the Army and the public service including military Governor of both Kaduna and Katsina States and member Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council. Recipient of a national honour – CFR.
- Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli – Founder & Chief Executive Office – Leadership Effectiveness Accountability & Professionalism (LEAP), Lagos, Nigeria. Recipient of a national honour in 2004 – MFR.
- Dr Olu Obaro – Radiologist. Head of the Department of Radiology, King George Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
- Dr Adhiambo Odaga – Ford Foundation Representative for West Africa – overall responsibility for overseeing the Foundation’s grants in the region. Recipient of a national honour in 2004 – MFR.
- Oye Hassan-Odukale – Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer – Leadway Insurance (one of the largest insurance companies in Nigeria). Chairman of the Insurance Association of Nigeria. Recipient of a national honour – MFR.
- Adebayo O. Ogunlesi – Chairman & Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners. Former Executive Vice Chairman & Chief Client Officer of Credit Suisse, New York, USA. Ranked 7th in Fortune Magazine’s list of Most Powerful Black Executives in the Americas.
- Professor Jacob K. Olupona – Chair of the African Studies Committee and Academic Professor of African & African-American Studies and Religion, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Harvard Divinity School, United States.
- Dele Olojede – Journalist. Media strategist & consultant. Executive Chairman, Timbuktu Media, South Africa. First African to win the Pulitzer Prize – journalism’s highest-regarded honour.
- Ayo Oke – Diplomat & civil servant. Ambassador, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, United Kingdom – responsible for policy coordination and development.
- Bunmi Oni – Fmr. Managing Director – Cadbury Nigeria Plc. Past Chairman of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group. Chairman, Steering Committee on Competition and Anti-Trust Reform. Recipient of a national honour – MON. Recipient of 2006 Best CEO of the Year award.
- Lola Oni – Lecturer and Nurse Director, Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre, London, UK. Recipient of a British national honour – OBE – for her outstanding contribution in the field of Sickle Cell disease.
- Jim Ovia – Fmr Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer – Zenith Bank Plc (one of Nigeria’s leading banks). Serves on the boards of many organisations including the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria and the Nigeria Investment Promotion Council. Recipient of a national honour – MFR.
- Professor Femi Oyebode - Head of Department of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatry Hospital. Chief Examiner, Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Research Fellow at the Centre for West African Studies, Birmingham.
- Nuhu Ribadu – Fmr Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Nigeria. Recipient of 2006 Silver bird Man of the Year Honour.
- Dr Seyi Solebo – Paediatrician, NHS Trust, United Kingdom. Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
- Jide Zeitlin – Private investor. Founder, The Keffi Group. .Previously a senior investment banker and Partner Managing Director of Goldman Sachs & Co until December 2005. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Amherst College, USA
