Biography

Oluseun Onigbinde is the co-founder and Director of BudgIT, Nigeria’s civic organization. Oluseun Onigbinde is a recipient of the Ashoka Fellowship, Future Africa Awards, Quartz Africa 30 Innovators Award, Aspen New Voices Fellowship, Melvin Jones Fellowship and Stanford Draper Hill Summer Fellowship. As a Knight Innovation Fellow, he also worked with the International Center for Journalists/Gates Foundation on rethinking health journalism in Nigeria. Oluseun has worked on several projects funded by MacArthur Foundation, Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, OXFAM and Omidyar Network. Oluseun Onigbinde is currently an Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University. He is a graduate of Engineering at University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. He had Executive Education at Stanford University Graduate School of Business on Social Entrepreneurship.