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Talking Trade Webinar – June 2023 Edition: “Part 2 – Getting It Right With Non-Oil Exports – Recommendations for the New Administration.”
Date: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023.
Time: noon E.T. (U.S. & Canada) 5 pm (West Africa Time)
We had a wonderful time last month (May 6th, 2023) discussing the 1st part edition of the theme. Join us again on Saturday, June 3rd, for another round of talks with a different panel of experts to provide us with more insights as they discuss what lies ahead for Nigeria’s non-oil exports sector with recommendations for the new administration.
Our Panel of Experts are:
- Barrister Bayo Ayo – Partner, Lords and Temple Chambers.
- Emmanuel Oscar Macaulay – CEO of McDaniel Personal Care Limited
- Seye Oyeleye – Director General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission
Moderating Expert -Olufemi Boyede, CITP, CEO Koinonia Global Services and Chief Host/Convener TATRIG Webinars
Lady Kay -Anchor/ Moderator TATRIG Webinars
Bio: Panel of Experts
Guest Trade Expert (Panelist)
Mr. Seye Oyeleye: Retired Director General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission
Mr. Seye Oyeleye is an accomplished Strategic Management expert with over twenty-five years of experience in senior management positions in Nigeria and Europe’s public and private sectors.
Throughout his career, he has held various roles within the United Kingdom Civil Service and Local Government, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the Department of Work and Pensions, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and the London Borough of Hackney.
In addition to his public sector experience, Seye has worked in senior managerial capacities at several private sector organizations, including Omatek Group, Bluehall Management Consultants, Leadership Academy, and the TY Danjuma Foundation. Currently, he serves as the Director General of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, an organization established by the six states in Southwest Nigeria to oversee their regional integration, cooperation, and development agenda.
Seye’s educational background includes a secondary education at Loyola College, Ibadan; a Bachelor’s degree in History from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Nigeria; a Master’s degree in European International Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University); a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Capital Management from London Metropolitan University; and an LL B Law degree from the University of East London.
He has also completed several courses in Strategic Management, Human Capital Management, and Development Studies in the UK and Nigeria, including a 10-week course on Creating Public Value at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2020 Class)
Guest Trade Expert (Panelist)
Barrister Bayo Ayo – Partner, Lords and Temple Chambers.
Guest Trade Expert (Panelist)
Emmanuel Oscar Macaulay
– CEO of McDaniel Personal Care Limited
Mr. Olufemi Boyede: CITP, Convener, TATRIG Webinars and Trade Expert-Moderator
Olufemi Boyede, CITP, has over thirty years of professional experience in international trade and strategy, policy advocacy, and human capital development. He has broad expertise in trade and business environment improvement, regional integration frameworks, trade linkages, services exports, public-private dialogue, and advocacy on non-oil exports and enterprise development issues.
He has a strong background in private sector management positions and consulting roles in the business, trade, and logistics communities. He has recently held numerous senior trade and export development positions in Nigeria’s public and private sectors. In addition to several Consultancy assignments with International Agencies, including the World Bank, DFID, GIZ, USAID, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the International Trade Centre (ITC).
‘Femi’s 30 years of international trade expertise places him in a leveraged position to provide professional advice worldwide to clients (both importers and exporters), helping them successfully navigate the day-to-day complexities of the international trade industry.
His passion for increasing awareness and equipping international trade stakeholders forms the basis for this series of webinars.
He holds a Post-graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, and an MBA from the University of The People, California, USA.
Lady Kay (Kemi Amusan)
The Moderator /Anchor
Kemi Amusan, popularly known as Lady Kay, is a linguist (French and English), an Editor, a Crisis Prevention Intervention Trainer, and a community leader (leading several thousands of blacks) as the immediate past president of the Nigerian-Canadian Association in Greater Toronto Area, Canada. She currently works as an Assistant Registrar at a great university in the Caribbean. Lady Kay gives back to the community as the Senior Advocate of Global Women Ambassadors, Canada. In this role, she organizes programs to educate, elevate and facilitate many socio-cultural, entrepreneurship, immigration, educative, and empowerment programs for families. Lady Kay is also the host of Agbajo Owo and Ask Lady Kay – the broadcasting arms of Global Women Ambassadors that seek to ‘build the community, one family at a time.’
About The Talking Trade Webinars
The Talking Trade with Femi Boyede Webinars has been set up to discuss, in a professional manner, all the angles related to the various issues that a firm, an individual, or a country can expect to confront as they design, implement or modify their strategic processes to manage global trade. It is a virtual platform for engaging discussions on international trade; its components, the values international trade offers to individuals, corporations, and countries, such as the reduction of poverty, creation of employment, increased corporate profitability and the growth of national economies, among others.
Expected Outputs and Outcomes
The outputs of the Trade Webinar series will include:
a. Webinar Report: A summary of key findings and policy recommendations distilled from each session, combinations of sessions, papers, and keynote speeches.
b. The proceedings of the webinars, incorporating relevant comments and feedback from peer review and webinar participants will be published after the episode or quarter.
c. Presentation of these findings and recommended solutions will be made to relevant governments agencies, ministries and parastatals as well as other identified stakeholders.
d. Our inhouse team will track results of the webinar series, and make updates available to subscribers and stakeholders.
The Anchor: TATRIG Webinars
Kemi Amusan popularly known as Lady Kay is a linguist (French and English), an Editor, a Crisis Prevention Intervention Trainer and a community leader (leading several thousands of blacks) as the immediate past president of the Nigerian-Canadian Association in Greater Toronto Area, Canada. She currently works as an Assistant Registrar in a great university in the Caribbean. Lady Kay gives back to the community as the Senior Advocate of Global Women Ambassadors, Canada. In this role, she organizes programs to educate, elevate and facilitate many socio-cultural, entrepreneurship, immigration, educative, empowerment programs for families. Lady Kay is also the host of Agbajo Owo and Ask Lady Kay – the broadcasting arms of Global Women Ambassadors that seek to ‘build the community, one family at a time’.