Shakir Akorede

Shakir Akorede is an eclectic writer, journo and New Media knowledge management expert. As a multipotentialite civic advocate, he drives high-level citizen-government engagements aimed at opening governments, fostering public transparency and accountability as well as institutional reforms. Akorede is also a researcher and young professional in foreign policy and security studies.

He has led several advocacy initiatives aimed at driving fiscal transparency, citizen-led social accountability, oil and gas sector reform and several other advocacy campaigns (e.g. #OpenNASS #FixOurOil #OpenLagos).

Akorede is an Agenda Contributor to the World Economic Forum and writer for many top-tier outlets including US’ Entrepreneur Magazine, CNN Africa, Forbes Africa, Huffington Post and MarketingProfs. With his articles (on wide-ranging topics including branding/marketing, business hacks, career and personal development, workplace productivity, sustainable dev., etc) being syndicated on various international publications and translated into several languages (French, Chinese and Norwegian), he has been featured on some of Nigeria’s most respected newspapers and has equally been seen, read or heard on several international TV, online and print media such as Aljazeera, BBC Africa, The Telegraph.