Dr Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien is a board member of the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board. In 1999, she founded the Growing Businesses Foundation and in 2019 the Circular Economy Innovation Partnership. She was the pioneer Chief Sustainability & Governance Officer at the Dangote Group from 2017 till 2020 where she initiated and operationalised sustainability for which she was recognised as the 2020 Sustainability Executive of the Year by Cemex Africa.

She’s also served as faculty responsible for sustainability, ethics and social entrepreneurship at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University.

Ndidi is a co-founder of the ToroNet Association, Geneva, a blockchain and stable coin solution to enable financial and digital inclusion. She is Co-Chair, Research Group, Finance and Economics  [Frankfurt-Hohenheimer Leitfaden] based on which she commenced development of her SevenPillars Methodology 15 years ago. She became an Associate/Fellow of the University of Edinburgh in 2019, and also a member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Stakeholder Council and the Nigeria Integrated Reporting Committee. She served as founding Co-chair of the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) on SDGs, linked to the Global PSAG-UN SDG Fund and inaugurated by the Nigerian Presidency in 2017.

She holds a B.Sc. (Economics) in International Relations from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and a Ph.D. in Sustainability & Governance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. She is an alumnus of Wharton Business School and has attended executive programs at INSEAD and Judge Business School, Cambridge. She has published books, serves on several non-profit and social enterprise boards, and has made it her life mission to support Africa’s sustainable development.