NWUNELI, Ndidi OKonkwo

Diop of Dakar(UCAD), Dakar, Senegal; The African Center for Economic Transformation(ACET), Accra, Ghana; DFID & The Ford Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria; Harvard Business School's Making Markets Work, Cambridge, MA, USA, since 2002; Founder/.C.E.O, Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability and Professionalism (LEAP)Africa, Lagos, Nigeria, 2002-08; Founder/Director, Leadership, Effectiveness,Acawntabilityand Professionalism (LEAP)Africa, Lagos, Nigeria, since 2008; Others Include; Founder/Director NIA; Founder/Director. LEAP Africa; Nigeria Chairperson, Africa Leadership Initiative; Director, Tax Assistance, Chicago; Founder/Co-Chair of the Annual African Business Conference, director Women Thrive, Washington DC; Member of Committee for the University of Lagos' Entrepreneurship Programme, 2005; Member of Goveming Council for the University of Ibadan's Programme for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2006; Facilitator, Policy Commission on Governance & Institutions,2006-08; director The Aart of Life Foundation, 2005-08; director Chike Okoli Foundation, 2006-08; director FATE Foundation, Nigeria, 2000-05; Member of the Presidential Committeeon National Cultural Center, Abuja, 2005; Advisor, Ministry of Youth Development, 2005; Member, Technical Committee for the 2005& 2006 Nigerian Economic Summits; Member, Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Sub group for the 2001 Nigerian Economic Summit; mm: Member, International Leadership Association, since 2004; Award: Recipient, Albert A. Berg Scholarship Award for academic achievement; Selected for the Friars and the Onyx Senior Honor Societies for Outstanding Leadership, 1992-95; Recipient, Harvard Fellowship, and the National Black MBA Association Graduate Scholarship award for Outstanding Academic Achievement; National Honour: Member of the Federal Republic(MFR), 2004; Selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum,Davos, 2004; Selected as a Global Leader of Tomorrow Harvard Business School's Africa Business Club's Excellence Award, 2007; Selected as Young Manager of me Year by THISDAY Newspaper, NigOT'a, 2005; Recipient of Awards from JCI; Rotary, Christ Church; anda range of other non-profit, faith-based and Youth Organizations in Nigeria; publ: Articles on Leadership, Management and Ethics have been Published in Under the Tree of Talking (Founded by the British Council), Journal of Convergence, Farafina, Business Day,the Guardian and Business in Africa Magazine, 2003-07; Author, Walking ForGod in the Market Place, 200S; Lead author, Defying the Odds: Case Studies of Nigerian Companies that have Survived Generations LEAPAtrica, 2006; Editor/CoAuthor, Get on Board: A Practical Guide to Establishing