Education as a Force to Unite - A Conversation with Faith Abiodun

Faith Abiodun is Executive Director at UWC International bringing
a wealth of experience from his time spent as an education and
social enterprise leader, international affairs analyst, writer
and speaker. 


Prior to UWC International, he spent nearly a decade at the
African Leadership Academy (ALA) in Johannesburg, South Africa,
where he served as an executive leading the recruitment of
thousands of young leaders from all over the world for ALA’s
programmes. He also headed the Communications, Marketing,
Programme Recruitment and Partnerships departments, helping to
build ALA’s global brand and developing strategic partnerships
with governments, corporates, foundations, NGOs and schools. He
also founded the ALA Model African Union, through which more
than 1,500 young leaders from 58 countries participated in a
simulation of the African Union.


Earlier in his career, Faith was a journalist with The
Guardian in Nigeria; he also founded The Speech
Academy, an elocution and public speaking institution
and Future Africa, a public sector leadership organization
with a network of emerging leaders spread across more than 30
African countries. Previously, he worked in Corporate
Communications at the Bi-Courtney Group and served a
sabbatical stint with the international secretariat
of Catalyst 2030, a coalition of the world’s leading
social enterprises working with national governments to
accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development
Goals.  


Faith is a member of the Board of Trustees for News Decoder,
a Paris-based global education news service. He earned a
Bachelor’s degree in Geography from the University of Ibadan,
Nigeria and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from
Syracuse University, New York. He is also an alumnus of
the World Innovation Summit for Education’s (WISE)
Learners Voice Executive Education programme.


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