Simi Nwogugu

Simi Nwogugu is CEO of Junior Achievement (JA) Africa, part of the Nobel Peace Prize nominated JA Worldwide, one of the world’s largest youth-serving NGOs that prepares young people for the future of work. Simi was first introduced to JA while working at Goldman Sachs in New York City. Impressed by the organisation, she quit her lucrative job at age 24 to bring JA to Nigeria, where it now reaches more than 100,000 young people annually, before going on to head up JA’s operations across the continent.
She is currently a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Africa Leadership Initiative for West Africa (ALIWA), where she is pursuing her passion to empower and equip 10 million African girls to build thriving sustainable communities by 2050.