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Simi Nwogugu
Simi Nwogugu

Simi Nwogugu

About

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First Name:
Simi
Last Name:
Nwogugu
Title and Organization:
CEO, JA Africa
Bio:
Simi Nwogugu is the CEO of Junior Achievement (JA) Africa, which equips young Africans with financial literacy, entrepreneurship and employability skills for future success. JA Africa is a member of Nobel-peace-prize nominated JA Worldwide, which is the world's largest youth-serving non-profit economic education organizations. Prior to joining JA Africa, Simi served as the executive director of Junior Achievement (JA) Nigeria, which she brought to Nigeria in 1999, after she served as a volunteer in New York and realized that the entrepreneurial training programs were exactly what the large unemployed youth population in Nigeria needed. Simi started her career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs after studying economics and English at Mount Holyoke College, and it was at Goldman that she was introduced to JA New York. After setting up and running JA Nigeria for three years, she left to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School, after which she worked at MTV Networks for a few years before launching HOD Consulting, Inc., a New York-based leadership development firm that helps major corporations retain and advance high-performing women, particularly women of color. Simi and her contribution to work-life management in the United States, youth empowerment in Nigeria and her own personal struggles to balance work, family and social responsibility, are the subject of a Harvard Business School case study titled, An Entrepreneu's Journey: Simi Nwogugu. After a decade of entrepreneurship, Simi returned to JA first to her original role as executive director of JAN in 2016, then to her current role as CEO of JA Africa. She was named winner of the prestigious Africa Education Medal in 2023. She is in the sixth class of the Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa (ALIWA).

Fellowship Program

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Program Membership:
Africa Leadership Initiative - West Africa

Class

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Fellowship Class Name:
Class VI: Nkyinkyim


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