LT. GEN TY DANJUMA (RTD) (CHAIRMAN)

Lt. Gen. is the Chairman and Founder of the TY Danjuma Foundation. He is from Takum Local Government area in Taraba State. Gen. Danjuma had an illustrious career in the Nigerian army retiring as Chief of Army Staff. He has also held top advisory positions to previous and the current president of Nigeria as Chairman of Presidential Advisory Councils. Lt. Gen. TY Danjuma is an astute successful businessman and philanthropist. It is his impressive track record of philanthropic giving that culminated in the establishment of the TY Danjuma Foundation.

PROF. JEAN HERSKOVITS

Professor Jean Herskovits is a professor of History at the State University of New York, Purchase College. She specialises in African History & Politics and taught in various institutions including Brown University, and City College of the University of New York. She has written extensively and consulted for Foundations, corporations and the World Bank on Nigerian and African matters. She has held numerous positions in Nigeria including Director of United Bank for Africa where she chaired the Board of trustees of the UBA Foundation. She was also head of the Nigeria reinvestment project of citizens energy corporation. She is a member of the Conoco Phillips, Nigeria advisory council and is currently working on a political history of contemporary Nigeria.

MR. LUC ROBERT

Mr. Luc Robert is the Founder and Executive Director of Compass Strategy Consultants, S.A, Geneva. A Swiss national, Mr. Robert holds a Licence degree in Economics from Neuchâtel University, Switzerland and a Diploma in Commercial Maturity. He specialises in the areas of textile industry, metal works, construction and oil milling. From 1967-1968, he worked as Works Accountant in Northern Textile Manufacturers Limited, Kano. Here he established and has maintained interactions with Nigerians both in Nigeria and the Diaspora ever since.

DR. OSAGIE E. EHANIRE

Dr. Osagie E. Ehanire is an outstanding surgeon and holds an (MD) of college of Medicine, Ludwig Maximillians University, Munich. He also holds post graduate Diplomas from the Teaching Hospital of the University of Düsseldorf and Essen, Germany in the areas of Anaesthesiology, General Surgery, and Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery. Dr. Osagie has served on various medical Boards both within and outside Nigeria. He was Senior Registrar, Clinical Instructor, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Member of the old Bendel and Edo States Hospital Management Board, Consultant Surgeon, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, Clinical Course instructor, Fracture Internal Fixation course, BG Accident Hospital, Duisburg, Germany. He co-authored the orthopaedic book “The severely injured limb” edited By John Ackroyd. He is a Nigerian from Edo State.

LT. GEN J.M. HAMIDU (OSG, DSO, Rcds, PSC, jdc)

Lt. Gen. J.M Hamidu is an elder statesman of the tribe of Northern Ghana. He has served in various capacities in Ghana and within the African sub-region, some of which are; Ghana’s High Commissioner to Nigeria (2003-2006), National Security Advisor to President Kufuor’s government (2001-2002), Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed forces and member of the SMC, Supreme Military Council (ruling government of Ghana between 1975 – 1979). He was also Ghana’s High Commissioner to Zambia, Swaziland, Botswana & Lesotho, Mozambique, the Gambia, Mauritania and Senegal. He is the founder of the Ghana Armed Forces staff college in Teshie, Ghana. For his immense contribution to the growth of the Ghanaian polity, the nation honoured him with national honours of Officer of the star of Ghana (OSG), and Distinguished Service Order (DSO), Military Division in 1978.

Ms. THELMA EKIYOR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Ms. Thelma Ekiyor is the pioneering Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the T Y Danjuma Foundation; an indigenous grantmaking private Foundation based in Abuja, Nigeria. Ms Ekiyor was previously the First Executive Director of the West Africa Civil Society Institute established by the Open Society Institute of West Africa (OSIWA). She has over 10 years of experience working in the non profit sector across Africa. She is a lawyer by training, a fellow of Stanford University, published author, researcher and  an African feminist. Ms Ekiyor has also served as a consultant to various United Nations agencies, the African Union and Regional Economic Communities in Africa. She sits on the Board of a number of local and international organisations, including the Global Center on R2P, based in New York and the UK based Climate Intelligence organisation.