Our Team
Meet our dynamic team of visionaries behind the BAP. We also have an army of talented and passionate volunteers in Nigeria as well as in diaspora working behind the scene everyday towards the development of Alaigbo.
Chineze Olive Okafor
Co-Founder, ADAI
Chineze Olive Okafor is a deeply experienced scholar of international development and African studies with extensive work in the financial sector and humanitarian commitments across women’s empowerment and leadership initiatives.
A celebrant of her indigenous Igbo heritage and culture, Chineze co-founded the Alaigbo Initiative in 2019 to galvanize the Igbo Renaissance for the homeland in every aspect of life: education, healthcare, agriculture, entrepreneurship, governance, creativity, and holistic human development. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Lagos, Chineze envisions Alaigbo Initiative sweeping across the land to rekindle the Igbo community’s can-do spirit of action with results orientation, such that new generations will grow in a renewed atmosphere of civic accountability and a complete drive for excellence in human development. The Alaigbo Initiative is built to adapt to and integrate the unique abilities, visions, and multiplicity of talents across Igboland in mutable, malleable forms founded on Igbo concepts of democratization of ideas and merited value.
Ifechidere Ugwu
Coordinator, BAP
As a Historian and policy analyst, she has taken up the development of AlaIgbo like a full time job. She’s the Co-founder of Evolution360 Nigeria and an analyst on Patito’s Gang, Channels TV. She’s from Enugu State.
Ndubuisi Obi
Director, Research & Development
Ndubuisi Obi (from Anambra State) is an energy professional working in Canada. Currently specializing in continuous improvement and business strategy, he brings technical and problem-solving skills to the BAP team. He also co-founded the Obinenwu Foundation with his wife that is focused on finding research-based solutions for issues in the SE including gullying and waste management by partnering with bright young minds in the region. Ndubuisi is also working with partners in Canada to develop black businesses and business support systems across Canada.
Richard Chukwu
Director, Communications
Chinedu Adikwu
Team Lead, Legal
Onyinye. R. Enemuo
Team Lead, Research & Development
Ikenna Okonkwo
Team Lead, Project Design
Oliver Uchechukwu Eze
Deputy Team Lead, Agric Development
Engr. Oliver Uchechukwu Eze is an Agricultural Engineer who graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He holds an MSc. in Agric Engineering from ABU Zaria and a masters degree in International Relations from the Nigeria Defense Academy, Kaduna. An alumni of the African Centre for Leadership and Strategy Development, CLSD.
He is the Principal Partner, Nectar Role Consulting, a management and HR consulting firm, a financial services expert and an Executive member of the Nigeria Society of Engineers Abuja Branch.
He is the deputy team lead of ADAI Agric Team, a board member of the Build Alaigbo Project. He is very passionate about good governance and poised to contribute to the development of Alaigbo.
Obeta Chidi Max
Team Lead, Strategy & Tech
Crey Arinze Ahanonu
Team Lead, Media & Communications