Enene Ejembi, Executive Director, Verbatim Virtual Solutions

Enene Ejembi is the executive director, Verbatim Virtual Solutions. It is a consulting firm that provides technical assistance to clients such as the United Nations Global Compact, cultivating new frontiers in agriculture, and volunteer services organisation. They play a pivotal role in executing strategic vision, fostering thought leadership, technical oversight, managing stakeholders, and winning new business.

In her capacity as executive director, she is responsible for Verbatim’s core work streams, which include knowledge management and strategic communication, economic growth, governance and health systems strengthening.

Throughout Enene’s 21-year career, she has built corporate governance structures, designed strategies, and delivered results for employers, clients, stakeholders, and beneficiaries. She provides leadership in delivering technical and intellectual solutions to development challenges, while fostering the values and ethics that underpin development and good governance.

Enene started her career in retail banking, and worked for 8 years in Diamond Bank Nigeria and the Royal Bank of Scotland in the UK. She holds a Master’s of Letters in English Literature from the University of Dundee, KM certification from the Knowledge Management Institute, Washington, DC, and trained at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, completing four courses including the ‘Leading Economic Growth Executive Programme.’

In 2012 she took her private sector experiences and focused her career on contributing to the development of Nigeria. Her mission is to learn and disseminate the causes of poverty and implement policy solutions that address them.

Ejembi is an international development professional with expertise in strategic communication, governance, policy advocacy, economic development, international trade and development, democratic governance, poverty reduction, and climate change. She excels at strategic visioning, planning, and guiding the implementation of ideas, with proven partnership and constituency-building skills.

Her mission is to identify and address the root causes of poverty through effective policy solutions and impactful initiatives. She was former head, strategic communication and knowledge management at DAI. There, she led DAI brand strategy in Nigeria, ensuring credibility in climate change, poverty reduction, and clean energy through media outreach, convening high level discourse, newsletter publication and cutting-edge social media engagement. She delivered results such as the successful development of DAI Nigeria’s first 5 year strategic plan, first annual report, and success of the diversity, equity, and inclusion baseline survey.

Also, as the independent consultant, Department for International Development (DFID), she was a technical expert for UK Government funded programmes. It was the Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn programme (PERL) and the Market Development in the Niger Delta project (MADE). She delivered impact in governance reform, public private sector strategic engagement and service delivery solutions.