Funmi Olonisakin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Funmi Olonisakin
Occupation	academic
Date Of Birth	Feb 8, 1965(1965-02-08)
Age	59
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Aquarius

Funmi Olonisakin Biography

Funmi Olonisakin is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on February 8, 1965 in London, United Kingdom. Funmi Olonisakin (born 8 February 1965) is a British Nigerian scholar, who is a Professor of leadership, peace and conflict at King’s College London, and a distinguished associate scholar at the University of Pretoria. She is the founder and former Director of the African Leadership Centre (ALC) founded on the principle of Pan-Africanism to build the next generation of leaders and scholars on the African continent with core transformational values. Olonisakin is a professor at King’s College London and the Programme Director of the ALC’s Master of Science (MSc) programmes on Leadership, peace and security. She is a research associate of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, and was an Andrew Mellon Foundation distinguished scholar and a distinguished fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). She is currently an appointed member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) advisory group of experts. on the review of the UN Peace-building Architecture.

Olonisakin is the first black woman to reach the professorship cadre at King’s College, London and has been named in the Powerlist of Britains most influential people of African origin, including in the Top 10 of the 2019 ranking.

Funmi Olonisakin Net Worth

Funmi Olonisakin is one of the richest academic from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Funmi Olonisakin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Olonisakin was once a staff of the United Nations, through the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict, where she managed the African unit. During her professional engagement in this role, “she facilitated the establishment of the National Commission for War Affected Children in Sierra Leone and the Child Protection Unit in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). She has served many other roles with the African Union and ECOWAS especially in the women’s in peace-building, governance, children in conflicts thematic areas. She was also the Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Group at King’s College London from 2003 till 2013.

Aside from teaching, Olonisakin contributes to African peace and conflict debates, on which she has to her credit a wide ranges of publications. She is a founding member of the African Security Sector Network (ASSN) and served as its West African Regional Coordinator from 2008 until 2012. She served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Fragile States from 2008 to 2010 examining and evaluating how transformative leadership can have such lasting impact on governance and post-conflict reconstruction.

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Mohamed Ranked on the list of most popular Academic. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Funmi Olonisakin celebrates birthday on February 8 of every year.