Obiageli Ezekwesili

Co-Founder, Transparency International. During her time as education minister, she led an extensive and comprehensive reform program, and her blueprint for overhauling the sector is a reference document from which other countries in Africa have borrowed ideas. A former vice-president of the World Bank’s Africa Region, she was recently, a senior advisor on Africa Economic Development Policy at the Open Society Foundations in New York, assisting the Mano River governments with economic policy reforms. She is a leading chartered accountant and co-founder of the global anti-corruption group, Transparency International. She is also one of the co-conveners of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign to find the 300 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014. She has held several key positions within the Nigerian government including senior special assistant to the President of Nigeria on budget monitoring and price intelligence, Minister of Mineral Resources and Minister for Education.