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Dapo Oyewole
Nigeria
Senior Special Assistant to the President on International Cooperation
Description
’Dapo Oyewole serves as the Senior Special Assistant on International Cooperation (SSAP-IC) to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. For over two decades, he has worked at the intersection of governance, public policy, international development, management consulting and global affairs. In the public sector, he has served as Special Adviser on International and Interparliamentary Affairs to the Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives and also as a Special Adviser to two cabinet ministers, first at the Nigerian Presidency’s National Planning Commission and secondly at the Ministry of Finance, with donor coordination, international development cooperation, and strategic planning as his primary portfolios. In the private sector, he has worked as Director of Public Sector Development at Palladium Group and as Senior Public Sector Adviser at McKinsey & Company, where he spearheaded engagement with governments and donors. In the international development sector, he headed the Research, Policy, and Strategy Team of SPARC - the UK’s Department for International Development’s (DFID) technical assistance programme in Nigeria. In civil society, he has also worked as the Head of the International Office of the Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD-UK) and as the Executive Director of the Centre for African Public Policy and Strategy (CAPPS). He is the first male Nigerian Robert Bosche Fellow, the first Nigerian male to be awarded the Yale World Fellowship and is also a Senior Aspen New Voices Fellow and a Chevening Scholar (LSE MSc, Global Politics). He was Africa Analyst for CNN, BBC and a several other international media agencies and hosts the Policy & Development podcast. He is co-editor of the book, based on his popular Ted Talk, ‘Development as Dignity: Frontline Stories from Development Practitioners in the Global South’ and also author of ‘Ten Key Lessons African Leaders Should Learn from Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic’’, amongst other publications. He has garnered a range of degrees and certificates from reputable institutions of learning, such as the London School for Economics & Political Science, the University of Sussex, Harvard University, the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the University of South Africa. For more information : www.dapo-oyewole.com
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