Jumoke Oduwole

Olajumoke Omoniyi Oduwole (born 23 September 1973) is a Nigerian jurist and the incumbent Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment.

degree with a focus in commercial law from Cambridge University, in England, in 2000 where she was a DFID-Cambridge Commonwealth Trust scholar.

[citation needed] In 2023, she was appointed as a senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Massachusetts, US.

[3] Oduwole is the Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR on Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and Investment.

She chaired the Technical Working Team on Legislative Imperatives for the implementation of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021–2025.

In September 2024, The Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) honored her with a "Hall of Fame" Award for her work in business climate reforms over the past decade (2015–2024).

Oduwole was named one of the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) Class of 2024 Global Top 100 Export and International Trade Edition in May 2024.

[14] Oduwole is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), an Africa-wide think tank on governance, economic development and the evolution of African institutions,[15] and was previously on the Board of Ecobank Nigeria Plc, and Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA), an HIV support organization.

[13][9] Oduwole founded the No Limits Nigeria Initiative (NLNI) in 2023 to inspire, inform and impact young Nigerians toward nation-building.

In 2019, she received an Africa Leadership Network (ALN) Women 10th Anniversary Recognition for the impact of her work on business climate reforms.