Amy Jadesimi MD, Nigeria

Fellowship Year: 2012
Nationality: Nigeria
Job Title: Managing Director and CEO
Organisation: Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL)

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Job Title: Managing Director and CEO

Organisation: Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL)

Professional History: Dr Amy Jadesimi is the CEO of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL). She is overseeing the growth of West Africa's largest logistics and engineering facility operating in a free trade zone. LADOL is utilizing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, expanding service to sectors outside the oil industry, and creating tens of thousands of jobs.

Amy is an Oxford-trained medical doctor who worked at Goldman Sachs and attended Stanford Graduate School of Business prior to working her way up the ladder at LADOL, which was founded by her father Oladipo Jadesimi in 2000. As a doctor, she's also sought to reduce maternal mortality. Among her many accolades, Amy was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Academic and professional credentials: MBA - Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford
Global Management Certificate
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Oxford University Medical School

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Nigeria
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