Adeola Oluwatosin Alafia

Enterprise Development Center of Pan-Atlantic University (EDC of PAU)

Trainer

Adeola Alafia graduated with a BSc. Economics degree from Babcock University, Ogun State, Nigeria in 2003. She has over 10 years’ experience working in the banking industry and at Enterprise Development Centre of the Pan-Atlantic University.

She joined the Enterprise Development Centre, Pan-Atlantic University in September 2009. There she manages female-targeted projects. Over the years, Adeola has worked on projects, such as the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Program, where she was able to develop the capacity of 450 women in Nigeria well as the provision of wrap-around services. She was responsible for monitoring and evaluation of the 10,000 Women Goldman Sachs program (2009 – 2013), was a project manager of the World Bank WomenX program (2014 – 2016), and worked on launching the Next Generation SME Toolkit, which has over 100,000 registered members (https://smetoolkit.ng).

Adeola doubles as the human resource manager and project manager of other projects at the Centre. As an IFC-LPI certified trainer, Adeola facilitates sessions on human resources and personal productivity skills. She is also a faculty member teaching the entrepreneurship course to undergraduate students.