Olumide Makanjuola – Connector in Chief

Olumide is a Sexual Health and Rights advocate with extensive experience in LGBT rights programming in Nigeria and experiences in capacity development for LGBT activists and organizations in Anglophone West African countries.

He is engaged in LGBT rights related issues at the National, Regional, and international human rights platforms. He has wide-ranging experience and knowledge on fundraising, donor engagement, organization and project management.

He has served as an independent expert to the European Asylum Support Office and has been invited to speak at several human rights platforms highlighting the role of international community on LGBT rights advocacy at the local and global level.

Alumni of the International Visitor Leadership Programmes, and Associate fellows of the Royal Commonwealth Society.