Thinking Outside the Box (Platform 11.0)

Platform 11.0

The thought behind the Platform was borne out of a desire to create an avenue through which a certain type of knowledge could be shared. It was also important to make this knowledge available to the public on a mass scale......

Poju Oyemade
Visionary, The Platform

PLATFORM 11.0 2013 
WILL BE A 1-DAY EVENT HAVING 
7 SPEAKERS

DESCRIPTION

State of the Nation - Challenges & Opportunities.

VENUE

Harbour Point, Wilmot Point Close, Victoria Island, Lagos          VIEW MAP

DATE

1st October, 2013

TIME

9:00 AM Prompt

The Speakers

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo

Professor Yemi Osinbajo is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Senior Partner in the Law firm of SimmonsCooper Partners. He is also the Ethics Adviser to the Advisory Board of the African Development Bank and is a non-executive Director of Citibank. Prof. Osinbajo is Co-founder & Board Member Convention on Business Integrity and the Justice Research Institute Ltd

Dr. Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili

Dr. Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili is the former Vice President World Bank. She joined the World Bank Group from her most recent position as Minister of Education for the Nigerian Government since June 2006, where she led a comprehensive reform program within the education sector including, Restructuring and refocusing the ministry for the attainment of ‘Education for All’ (EFA) targets and Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

Simon Kolawole

Simon Kolawole is the Founder & CEO of Cable Newspaper Ltd, publishers of an online newspaper to be launched in November 2013. He was the Editor of THISDAY, regarded as Nigeria’s most influential newspaper, from 2007-2012. Kolawole was named among Africa’s next generation of leaders by The Banker, a publication of Financial Times of London, in 2009.

Jared Cohen

Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the co-author (along with Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt) of the New York Times best-selling The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business. He was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2013.

Ibukun Awosika

Mrs. Ibukun Awosika is the founder of The Chair Centre Ltd, a market leader in the office furniture and banking security systems industries. Mrs. Awosika is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is also an alumna of the Chief Executive Programme of Lagos Business School as well as the Global Executive MBA Programme of the prestigious IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.

Pastor Ituah Ighodalo

Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, a Pastor, an Accountant and a writer obtained a combined honours degree in Economics and Accounting in 1982 from the University of Hull, England, and attended a Business Certification Course at Harvard Business School in 2011. Pastor Ituah sits on the board of several charitable organizations and NGOs and is the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of the TIMELESS Media Group.

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