Dr. Yemi Babington-Ashaye uses strategy, management and leadership expertise to design and deliver innovative solutions. He currently serves as the President at United People Global. Under his leadership the organisation developed and runs the world’s best and the world’s largest training on sustainability leadership, training 500+ young leaders from 100 countries and territories each year. Each year United People Global has an impact footprint in over 130 countries across all world regions.
A former Director at the World Economic Forum Yemi diversified the organisation’s Africa operations and created a pan-African Community of world class leaders interacting on the global agenda. As Head of the Global Shapers Community, Yemi designed and executed strategy to empower youth by building the Global Shapers Community to over 450 cities in 170+ countries. Yemi designed and implemented a distributed leadership strategy securing over 7,000 members and impacting over one million lives through projects. As Technical Adviser for Economic Growth to the Nigerian Finance Minister, Yemi was responsible for the structure and content of the Minister’s regular State of the Economy briefings as well as overseeing fiscal initiatives to strengthen growth and national competitiveness. Formerly at General Electric, Yemi developed software that automated his job. He went on to prepare the annual financial statements for 3 GE businesses. He led the Project Business UK team that won the Kingston Mayor’s Award for contribution to the community. Empowering others by sharing knowledge is something that Yemi has done throughout his career, including through teaching and research.
Yemi is an economist (Harvard University and Richmond University); a management scientist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a chartered accountant (ACCA) and a Doctor in international relations (Geneva School of Diplomacy). He regularly collaborates with corporations, governments, non-profit organisations and individual leaders.