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 largest training on sustainability leadership, training 500+ young leaders from 100 countries and territories each year. The organisation also developed a leading ecosystem to support entrepreneurs, training 350+ entrepreneurs from 50 countries globally each year and providing funding to selected entrepreneurs. The organisation has an impact footprint in over 130 countries across all world regions.

As Deputy Head of Africa at the World Economic Forum he developed the strategy to diversify the Forum’s community of African business and political leaders and secured the strategic evolution of the Forum’s Africa meeting beyond southern Africa to becoming pan-African. In the process, Yemi achieved record levels of business leader participation and fundraising for the activities of the division. Yemi secured a record level of female executive participation at the annual Africa Summit, this was matched by record female executive participation in the agenda and programme, with positive consequences that continue to this day. As Head of the Global Shapers Community, Yemi developed and executed strategy to empower youth by building the Global Shapers Community to over 450 cities in 170+ countries. This included a presence in at least one city in every African country. Yemi designed and implemented a distributed leadership strategy securing over 7,000 members and impacting over one million lives through projects. To strengthen the voice of all young people he founded the Shapers Survey, a comprehensive survey that exceeded 30,000 responses from over 180+ countries and territories with the data available to the public.