Dr. Ndidi Nnoli Edozien

Dr Ndidi Nnoli is Chair, Circular Economy Innovation Partnership and Managing Partner Afrikairos GmBH. She was engaged by Dangote Founder/President to initiate and operationalize sustainability at Africa’s largest business, serving as Chief Sustainability and Governance Officer [March 2017 – June 2020], Dangote Industries Limited. Immediately prior, she served as faculty responsible for sustainability, ethics and social entrepreneurship at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University. She founded Growing Businesses Foundation in 1999 to combat poverty and enable financial and digital inclusion as the base of the pyramid. She is Co-Chair, Research Group, Finance and Economics  [Frankfurt-Hohenheimer Leitfaden] based on which she commenced development of her SevenPillars Methodology 15 years ago, is the ACCA Africa Advocacy Program Subcommittee Chajr on Sustainability & Givernance. She is also a full member of the Club of Rome and serves as a member of the Executive Committee. She has been an Associate/Fellow of the University of Edinburgh since 2019-2021, member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Stakeholder Council and the Nigeria Integrated Reporting Committee. She served on the Governing Council, Lagos State Employment Trust Fund, and continues to Co-chair the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) on SDGs, linked to the Global United Nations SDG Fund, inaugurated by the Nigerian Presidency in 2017. She holds a B.Sc. (Economics), International Relations from London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and a Ph.D. in Sustainability & Governance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. She is an alumnus of Wharton Business School and attended executive programs at INSEAD and Judge Business School, Cambridge. She has published books, serves on several non-profit and social enterprise boards and has made it her life mission to support Africa's sustainable development.