Imade Bibowei is a strategic advisor with over 15 years of experience and expertise in public policy development, investment portfolio analysis, results-based monitoring and evaluation, business strategy development and implementation, as well as project, risk, and organizational change management.
During the course of her career, she has worked across public, private, and multinational organizations in Nigeria, the UK, the USA, and Europe, and she currently works with the National Pension Commission, the regulator of the Nigerian Pension Industry, where she contributes to the development of policies, frameworks, and guidelines to guide the investment of the Nigerian pension funds, which stood at 15.58 trillion naira as of March 2023.
Her current role also involves the development of policies that are being implemented to reduce old age poverty, foster financial inclusion, facilitate access to mortgages by citizens, and stimulate investment activities in the Nigerian financial market.
Due to her keen interest in fostering the development of evidence-based public policies across Africa, she undertook intensive training at the prestigious University of Oxford’s newest and most vibrant department, the Blavatnik School of Government, where she garnered knowledge in evidence-based policy formulation and impact assessment.
She is the first and only black woman on the advisory board of Organizational Change Management, Iran, where she provides strategic advice on organizational design and change management best practices.
To advance the adoption of project management practice across Africa, she served as a student mentor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where she worked actively with the Project Management Institute (PMI) to mentor two groups of five first year students to implement their projects as part of their contributions towards sustainable development goals.
She is also a speaker inside the Women of Project Management, the only community created to support and amplify the voices of women and women of color in every specialty of the project management industry worldwide.Due to her desire to promote the achievement of digital equity, she founded Tech Herfica, a nonprofit organization that champions digital inclusion and access to new markets and educational opportunities for women and girls in rural African communities.
She is a recipient of the 2023 Global Women in Business and Leadership Award issued by the Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the African Women Industrialization Award (2020 Woman of the Year), and the FIST Africa Award for Excellence.Imade is also a member of the United Nations eTrade for Women Initiative, which is championed by the United Nations Centre for Trade and Development to advance the empowerment of women through information and communications technology.
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