Tony Elumelu Foundation

Founded in 2010: "The Tony Elumelu Foundation is an African based and funded not-for-profit institution, dedicated to the promotion and celebration of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa. As a 21st century catalytic philanthropy, the Foundation is committed to driving the continent’s economic growth from within by proving the African private sector can itself be the primary generator of economic development."

"In addition to other policy-related initiatives, the past year also saw TEF partnering with the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative to form the Blair Elumelu Fellowship Programme designed to strengthen the private sector’s role in the economic transformation of select African countries – starting with Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria – by developing the capacity of their governments to attract and nurture domestic and foreign private investment and enterprise."


 * Founding Patron - Professor Michael E. Porter

Board
Accessed April 2013:


 * Tony O. Elumelu
 * Alexander Trotter
 * Awele V. Elumelu

Advisory Board
Accessed April 2013:


 * Shaukat Aziz
 * Runa Alam
 * Teresa Clarke
 * Luisa Dias Diogo
 * Stewart J. Paperin
 * Henrik Skovby
 * Vimal Shah

Former Advisory Board
"The TEF Advisory Board members represent the pinnacle of success in the public, private and non-profit sectors. They include H.E. Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan and Executive Vice President of Citigroup; Runa Alam, CEO of Development Partners International and non-Executive Director of United Bank of Africa; Teresa Clarke, founder and CEO of Africa.com and former managing director in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs & Co.; Dr. Luisa Dias Diogo, a former Prime Minister of Mozambique who played a major role in that country’s economic transformation; Stewart J. Paperin, Executive Vice President of the Open Society Foundations and President of the Soros Economic Development Fund; and Henrik Skovby, Founder and Executive Group Chair of Dalberg, a specialist strategy consulting firm with offices in five continents." Another member is Henrik Skovby.

Contact
URL: http://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org

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