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Job Title: Lead Partner and co-founder
Organisation: BudgIT
Professional History: Oluseun is the Lead Partner and co-founder of BudgIT, a civic organization that works to make public finance data more accessible, transparent, and understandable to citizens. Oluseun leads the organization's strategy development, stakeholder management, and fundraising. He is working towards a just, transparent, and fair society where every citizen within a community has equal access to information about the fiscal position of their society.
Before leading BudgIT, Oluseun worked in two Nigerian financial institutions in areas of business development, strategy, and service delivery. He has also worked on federal public administration reform, providing strategic support for the National Assembly Budget and Research Office (NABRO) on data analytics, budget tracking, and visualization patterns. Oluseun is a recipient of Future Africa Awards, Quartz Africa 30 Innovators Award and Archbishop Tutu Fellowship. As a Knight Innovation Fellow, he worked with the International Center for Journalists/ Gates Foundation on rethinking health journalism in Nigeria. He also sits on ONE Africa Policy Advisory Board and was named as one of the 100 most influential Africans by The Africa Report Magazine. Oluseun Onigbinde has made presentations at Chatham House, Open Government Partnerships Meetings, Covenant Christian Center, Daystar Christian Center, and so on. He is a member of the Harambe Network and also the Open Government Partnership Global Steering Committee
Oluseun, a pioneer Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University, is a graduate of Engineering at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. He also had Executive Education at Stanford University Graduate School of Business on Social Entrepreneurship.
Oluseun is currently a member of the ONE Africa Policy Advisory Board. In 2020, The Africa Report named him to the annual Top 50 Disruptors list.
Academic and professional credentials: Degree in Engineering from the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Certificate from Stanford University Graduate School of Business on Social Entrepreneurship
Fellow of the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law at Stanford University
Programs: Oluseun Onigbinde is a recipient of the Ashoka Fellowship, Aspen New Voices Fellowship, Melvin Jones Fellowship, Stanford Draper Hill Summer Fellowship and is also a Knight Innovation Fellow.