Expert on Social Innovation, African Agriculture & International Development; President & CEO of ONE Campaign
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli Biography
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is the President and CEO of the ONE Campaign. She has over 27 years of international development experience.
Nwuneli started her career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Chicago. She returned to Nigeria in 2000 to serve as the pioneer executive director of the FATE Foundation. In 2002, she established LEAP Africa to inspire, empower, and equip a new cadre of principled, disciplined, and dynamic young leaders in Africa. She also established NIA to support female university students in Nigeria to achieve their highest potential.
Between 2008 and 2023, she has focused exclusively on transforming the African agriculture and nutrition landscape through her work as the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition - West Africa's leading agrifood ecosystem consulting firm and AACE Foods, which produces a range of packaged spices, seasonings, and cereals for local and international markets. In 2019, she established African Food Changemakers (AFC) -www.afchub.org, a digital home for food and agriculture entrepreneurs operating on the African Continent, providing data, funding, training and support to businesses across Africa and elevating African food on global stages.
Nwuneli serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, Chanel Foundation, Stanbic IBTC Group, Forum of the Young Global Leaders, & the Bridgespan Group. She previously served on the Boards of Nestle Nigeria Plc., Nigerian Breweries (Heineken), AGRA, GAIN, the World Vegetable Center, AGRA, Godrej Consumer Products India, Helios Fairfax, the African Philanthropy Forum & Cornerstone Insurance Plc.
Nwuneli was recognized as a Young Global Leader and a Schwab Social Innovator by the World Economic Forum and received a National Honor from the Nigerian Government. She received the 2021 HBS Alumni Achievement Awards & is a TED speaker.
Nwuneli is the author of "Social Innovation in Africa: A Practical Guide for Scaling Impact," and "Food Entrepreneurs in Africa: Scaling Resilient Agriculture Businesses," both published by Routledge. She is also the author of “Working for God in the Marketplace.”
She holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and the McConnell Visiting Scholar at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University.
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