Development communications · Social impact
Dr.
Bukola
Ogunyemi
I work on the distance between what an institution knows and what the public does about it.
I lead digital strategy for business communications at the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group. Before that, Lagos: social media for Chocolate City Group, then digital and strategic communications for corporate brands, global nonprofits, and government agencies across Africa, Europe, and North America.
I also co-founded the Wole Ogunyemi Foundation, convene Better Life Nigeria, and write essays on development, education, artificial intelligence, leadership, and the mechanics of social change.
Now
International Finance Corporation
Digital strategy, business communications
Convener
Better Life Nigeria
Think tank on policy and shared prosperity
Since 2017
Wole Ogunyemi Foundation
Co-founder. Education and economic mobility
Doctorate
EdD, Organizational Leadership
University of Massachusetts Global
Speaking
Topics I speak on
Keynotes, panels, moderation, and closed-door workshops.
Booking details →Communicating development so people act on it
Why institutional messaging fails the people it is written for, and what to do instead.
AI, the algorithm, and who arbitrates truth
Who decides what is true once recommendation systems became the editors.
Emotional intelligence and leadership in a crisis
From doctoral research on managers at multilateral development institutions through the pandemic.
Education access as economic infrastructure
Lessons from mobilizing $5 million in scholarships and grants across Nigeria and the United States.
The Foundation
Talent should never go to waste because of circumstance.
The Wole Ogunyemi Foundation is a 501(c)(3) working to increase access to education and economic mobility for young people in Nigeria and the United States. I co-founded it in 2017 and fund it in part with 30 percent of my own salary.
It has opened higher education to more than 300 students, 200 of them the first in their families to get there, and reached more than 10,000 people, including in conflict-affected northeast Nigeria.
Visit the foundation ↗$5M+
Mobilized in scholarships and grants
300+
Students into higher education
10K+
People reached
50+
Community organizations