Former managing director at MNET, Biola Alabi has been named among the 2014 Yale World Fellows.
Joining 15 other distinguished personalities from several fields of life, Alabi’s activities and works as managing director for MNET, where she spent four years increasing the company’s Africa portfolio, including overseeing the launch of AfricaMagic Hausa and Yoruba in 2010 and AfricaMagic Swahili in 2011, are some of the criteria for been honoured.
Once listed as one of the 20 Youngest Powerful Women in Africa by Forbes in 2013, Alabi unknown to many had worked with leading brands that include Sesame Street, Bigwords.com and Daewoo Motors.
Yale World Fellows is Yale University’s signature global leadership development initiative and a core element of Yale’s ongoing commitment to internationalisation.
Each year the university invites a group of exemplary mid-career professionals from a wide range of fields and countries for an intensive four-month period of academic enrichment and leadership training.
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