Ndidi Nwuneli is an entrepreneur and expert on agriculture and nutrition, social innovation, and youth development. With over 25 years of international development experience, she founded LEAP Africa, Changing Narratives Africa, and African Food Changemakers; and co-founded AACE Food Processing & Distribution and Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition. Nwuneli has been a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, a visiting scholar at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and an Eisenhower Fellow. She started her career with McKinsey & Company. Author of Social Innovation in Africa and Food Entrepreneurs in Africa, Nwuneli’s board service includes the Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. She’s been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and received a national honor by the Nigerian government, among others.
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