Paul Ojajuni, the co-founder and director of research and development at HACEY Health Initiative has been selected together with 23 others for the 2020 Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy (AILA) fellowship at the prestigious Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC, USA.
A total of 24 fellows are selected each year to address the intellectual, ethical, cultural, and policy questions with the influence of diversity. These questions are always central to effective leadership in today’s world, the institute says.
“I am excited to join other development experts and policymakers from around the world as an Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy (AILA) fellow,” Paul Ojajuni said in reaction to his selection for the programme.
“This is a great opportunity for me to share my knowledge and experience, improve my strategic leadership skills as well as build strong relationships with other fellows,” he said.
The highly esteemed programme brings together different individuals from around the world to train them to have adequate knowledge and understanding of global issues and how to be effective leaders in today’s world.
To achieve the objective of this program, the fellows will be exercising their professional skills and leadership qualities.
Each fellow is provided the platform and necessary training to broaden their professional skills and leadership potentials in a multicultural, cooperative, and cross-sector environment.
Ojajuni currently leads Project Agbebi – a maternal health project aimed at reducing pregnancy-related deaths in rural communities in southwest Nigeria.
Preceding this, he had designed and led several development interventions funded by major international development organisations targeted at improving the health and productivity of underserved populations in Nigeria and Africa at large.
Ojajuni, who holds an M.P.H. (International) from the University of Leeds, UK is a certified programme manager and also an Obama Foundation Leader (Africa).
The AILA international fellows meet up and engage in an intensive and interactive week of seminars and experiential learning, to gain a deeper understanding of the complex global dynamics and the moral restrictions they are faced with as leaders.
CSIS selects from its network of world-class scholars and practitioners to create a wide-ranging, dynamic, and pragmatic approach to leadership, ethics, and global issues.
CSIS has accommodated over 210 AILA International Fellows from 49 countries since 2003. It has created and still creating a network of proactive and supportive alumni who continue to interact with one another on leadership strategies and contemporary issues.
