Oyindamola Adegboye

Oyindamola serves as Senior Associate, West Africa Fellows Program where she is responsible for designing and managing all the West Africa community initiatives.

Before joining Acumen, Oyindamola was Grants and Special Projects Coordinator at LEAP Africa where she supported the leadership team in executing the organization’s strategy by mobilizing resources, building multi-sectoral partnerships and managing short-term and multi-year grants.

With over six years of academic and professional experience in Europe and Africa, she has built global networks and communities, managed regional projects and conducted social research. Between 2018 to 2020, she was a Founding Member of a digital platform initiated by Chatham House to connect African and European youth to senior policymakers.

Oyindamola is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree Scholar (2017-2019) in Education Policies for Global Development from the Universities of Oslo, Amsterdam, Malta, and Barcelona (Autonomous). She is also a 2019 Ban Ki-moon Global Citizen Scholar and 2019 & 2021 Scholar at the European Forum Alpbach.

She enjoys traveling and watching ‘new’ Nollywood movies.