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Biography

Simi Nwogugu was first introduced to JA as a volunteer while working at Goldman Sachs in New York City. Impressed by the organisation, she quit her lucrative job at age 24 to bring JA to Nigeria, where it now empowers more than 200,000 young people annually, before going on to head up JA’s operations across the continent, equipping over 1.2 million youth annually with skills for the future of work.
For over 25 years, Nwogugu has been leading JA’s efforts in various capacities as it embarked on a mission to reduce youth unemployment and high poverty levels in Africa by helping young people to develop digital and entrepreneurial skills and apply entrepreneurial thinking to solve sustainability issues within their communities.
With an MBA from Harvard, Nwogugu has been recognized by the school with numerous awards including the Bert King Award for Social Impact. She was also recently declared winner of the prestigious Africa Education Medal 2023 by T4 Education, HP and Microsoft.