Meet MARKETING EDGE Guest Speaker @ IMC Quarterly Virtual Summit – Simon Kolawole
Founder/CEO, Cable Newspaper Ltd, Simon Kolawole is an extraordinary wordsmith who has concentrated most of his thoughts and expertise on nation-building and its impediments, governance, conflict and development.
Between 2007 and 2012, Kolawole served as the Editor of one of Nigeria’s most influential newspaper, THISDAY. He currently writes a weekly column for THISDAY, and The Sunday newspaper.
Kolawole earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, and a Master’s degree in Governance and Development from the University of Sussex, UK, as a British Chevening Scholar. He was named among Africa’s next generation of leaders by The Banker, a publication of Financial Times of London, in 2009. He was Mo Ibrahim Fellow on the Governance for Development in Africa Initiative at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2010.
In March 2012, he was named Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. As a YGL, he has attended courses on leadership at the Yale University (2013) and at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, both in the United States.
His primary academic interest is ‘fiscal sociology’ – how the fiscal relationship between a state and its citizens impacts on the quality of governance.
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