Femi Taiwo
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Best described as a transformative leader, Femi Taiwo (F.T) is an award-winning social entrepreneur and development strategist who is on a personal mission of facilitating the transformation of individuals, organisations, and nations. Femi presently serves as the Managing Director of TRACE Academia, a mobile app that offers free courses and certificates dedicated to jobs, entrepreneurship, and soft skills to audiences in Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Prior to this, Femi served as the Executive Director of LEAP Africa, a youth-focused leadership development organization.
Femi Taiwo is a 2018 Aspen Institute IdeasFest Scholar, a Praxis Accelerator alum, and is part of the inaugural class of the Obama Africa Leaders Programme. He is a recipient of the Junior Achievement Youth Award. Femi presently serves as the Co-Chair of the Nigeria Youth Future Fund (a 5-million dollar fund set up by Ford Foundation and McArthur Foundation to support young Nigerian change makers) and has served on various Boards including the United Nations Global Compact, Nigeria.
He holds an MSc. in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship from Manchester Business School and finished with a first-class degree in Computer Science from Covenant University.