RESURGENCE
We have a host of speakers who are experts in various fields such as Political science, Economics, Global health, Technology and so on, who will share their views on various ways theAfrican continent can develop in each of these areas.
Dr. Olutoyin Oyelade is the Founding Partner/CEO at InVcap Corporation-An Investment advisory firm with partners in Nigeria and Canada. InVcap recently completed an Investment Advisory deal- in Nigeria- Phase 1 of SplashWorld- a WaterPark, located at Ikogosi Ekiti, Southwest Nigeria. InVcap is Lead Investor at EntrepreneursPoint-a Co-work Incubator in Canada.
Olutoyin has Founded many non-profit initiatives and social enterprises including, Casa Foundation, AfroInvestors, Friends of Africa, and EP Academy all in Canada. She is the recipient of many awards including the Diasporan Achiever Award-Nigeria; Women of Courage Award-Canada; African Impact Leadership Award at African Women Forum, NewYork, SuperWomen Achievers Awards in Canada, amongst others.
Olutoyin has a Doctorate in Management (Leadership) from the University of Maryland, University College, and is a graduate of Wharton School’s Advanced management program, IMD Lausanne’s Business Marketing, and Lagos Business School’s Senior Management Program.
Read more about Dr. Olutoyin Oyelade: https://www.olutoyinoyelade.com/
Sandra Chuma holds postgraduate degrees in marketing and journalism, including a Master of Science degree with Honours in Multimedia Journalism & Documentary Filmmaking from Columbia Journalism School. She is a multimedia journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker, and was selected as the inaugural Documentary Fellow during her time at Columbia University.
For more than 15 years, Sandra has successfully blended business leadership, entrepreneurial innovation and creativity. In 2001, prior to attending Columbia University, Sandra partnered with her husband to create OBP (Open Business Process), an IT and management consulting company.
The concept for Ndini was born from Sandra’s desire to support and empower the young women in her life, having endured a personal struggle to find representation in the media that celebrated true African potential. Still feeling as though the narratives are restricted, Sandra hopes to provide access to the untold stories of exceptional African women that will resonate, inspire and ignite strength.
Read more about Sandra Chuma : http://www.sandrachuma.com/official-bio
Professor Wisdom Tettey is a political scientist and a leading researcher on African diaspora, politics and media, and is presently serving as the vice-president of the University of Toronto and principal of the University of Toronto Scarborough.
He is the author of several publications on Africa—including on the political economy of globalization and information technology; media, politics and civic engagement; African higher education; and the African diaspora. He is currently a co-principal investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded project on human rights issues for people affected by albinism in Africa.
Soon after completing graduate work in communication studies at the University of Ghana, he came to Canada as an international student to pursue a master’s degree in political science at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He holds a PhD in political studies from Queen’s University.
Read more about Professor Wisdom Tettey : https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/principal/principal-wisdom-tettey
Dr. Obidimma’s Ezezika has a truly multi-disciplinary background and training. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Ezezika has worked and consulted for diverse organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the Ministry of Science and Technology, Nigeria, the Sandra Rotman Centre, Yale’s Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and Grand Challenges Canada. His research interests lie at the nexus of implementation science, global health and food security. Prior to joining the faculty at UTSC, he was a Grand Challenges Fellow at the United Nations Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace, where he worked with a variety of global health stakeholders, including the Gates Foundation and USAID, to take high-impact innovations from the bench to the bedside and improve the health of women, children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Ezezika has a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Georgia and masters in Environmental Management from Yale University.
Read more about Dr. Obidimma : https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/ichs/obidimma-ezezika
Ehi Ade-Mabo - a.k.a “The Mindset Surgeon“. For over 10 years, Transformational and Mindset Coach, Ehi Ade-Mabo has inspired women to live purposefully, confidently and with conviction to make an impact in the world with their core message. Ehi is a passionate and inspirational speaker and trainer who has built her platform on helping women develop their Self-Confidence, Overcome fear and build leadership skills. Her message is built on the premise of abundance and the audacity of belief. Ehi is also an author and her works have directly transformed hundreds of women and been featured internationally.