An accomplished estate developer and facilities manager, graduated from the University of London with a B. Sc. (Hons) in 1989. He has experience working as business developer for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in Europe and is an entrepreneur and business manager for SMEs in Nigeria. He has undertaken numerous housing development projects and undertakes facilities management services on medium sizes estates in partnership with the Nigerian Housing Authority.

A Nigerian academic whose research and teaching focuses on African political and social history, and comparative politics of African states. His scholarship has been primarily influential in Nigerian history and politics. He is the Alfred Sargent Lee and Mary Ames Lee Professor of African Studies at Amherst College.

Professor Vaughan earned a B. A. and M. A. in government & politics at St. John’s University in 1980 and 1983, and a PhD. in politics from Oxford University in 1989. While at Oxford, he was a student of three distinguished Africanists, historian Anthony Kirk-Greene, historian Terence Ranger, and political sociologist Gavin Williams. He was assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of Africana Studies & History at State University of New York, Stony Brook from 1990 – 2008. At Stony Brook, he was also associate provost, associate dean, and directed the International Studies Program and the College for Global Studies. He was the Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History at Bowdoin College from 2008 – 2017, where he helped build an innovative interdisciplinary program in Africana Studies. He is a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Methods, Sources, and Historiography in African History, co-editor of Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Nigeria, associate editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia in African History, a member of the advisory board of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholar’s Africa Program, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Nigerian Studies.

Justice Aderonke Aderemi (rtd) brings 49 years of legal practice experience to the board having been a Barrister of the Nigerian Law School and a sitting judge in the Oyo State Judiciary where she rose to be the President, of the Customary Court of Appeal. Justice Aderemi specialized in advisory, litigation, and corporate governance.

Gregory Malpass brings 43 years engineering management experience to the board. Greg is a graduate of London Business School where he obtained an M. B. A. and the City University of London where he graduated with a 2/1 in civil engineering. He is an international business development expert with cognizant achievements in mergers and acquisition. He has worked on large institutional developments representing major international companies in the United Kingdom, Middle East, Asia and Africa. He has built a very strong regional knowledge of Middle East, & Far East including major players/ contacts and relationships with major private clients, government officials and members of ruling families. Previous experience involved developing personal networks in Latin America, North & West Africa and Far East over 20 years from bases in Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London, Lagos, Lima, Santo Domingo, & Miami. He was involved in the successful negotiation and financial closure of some major projects around the world, including a $188m US Exim Bank financed Bulk Water Supply Project in Dominican Republic, a $450m 400MW IPP Power Project in Colombia, establishment of a Private Water Concession company in Brazil with Anglian Water and helping secure the Construction Management contracts for $5bn of Projects including Euro Disney in Paris and Canary Wharf Development in London.