PREMIUM TIMES’ Enterprise Editor, Oladeinde Olawoyin, has been chosen for the 2025 Worldwide Guests’ Management Program (IVLP) for skilled leaders in Commerce, Finance and Improvement.
Mr Olawoyin was named alongside 21 different contributors from a number of international locations, similar to Guyana, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Germany, New Zealand, Brazil, Rwanda, South Africa, United Kingdom, Peru, Montenegro, Finland, Philippines, Colombia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, Iraq, India, Lebanon, and Ukraine.
The worldwide cohort is made up of economists, sanctions and compliance specialists, authorities expnomic advisors and representatives, commerce and SME consultants, CEOs of corporations, accountants and auditors, amongst others.
The programme, supported by the US’ Division of State, is structured to offer contributors a deep understanding of US commerce insurance policies, forms, markets, commerce, enterprise operations, SMEs, and native enterprises in chosen states.
The Worldwide Customer Management Program (IVLP) is the foundational skilled alternate programme of the US’ Authorities.
The programme advances US nationwide priorities and builds long-term relationships between People and worldwide leaders in authorities, enterprise, academia, and different fields.
IVLP fellows are rigorously nominated by U.S. embassies based mostly on their management potential and affect of their house international locations.
Since its launch in 1940, over 230,000 worldwide leaders have participated within the programme. The record of alumni consists of over 500 former and present heads of state and authorities, 12 Nobel Laureates, over 1,600 cabinet-level ministers and leaders in business, science, and academia.
As a core element of US public diplomacy, the IVLP straight helps US international coverage objectives and is designed to domesticate long-term relationships and mutual understanding between People and present and future international leaders.
The programme entails visits to the US, the place contributors interact with American professionals of their respective fields throughout varied US cities.
These rigorously designed exchanges construct skilled data, cultural understanding, and lasting connections.
A large community of American volunteers, neighborhood organisations, and personal corporations are concerned in internet hosting IVLP contributors. It’s ‘citizen diplomacy’ that gives worldwide leaders with a firsthand have a look at American society and helps construct cultural bridges.
Profile: Oladeinde Olawoyin
Mr Olawoyin, Enterprise, Vitality and Economic system Editor on the PREMIUM TIMES, is a multi-award successful journalist who focuses on points round oil and gasoline, enterprise, finance, agriculture, financial system, energy, maritime, and growth.
He holds a Bachelors diploma in Mass Communication from the College of Ilorin (UNILORIN), the place he bagged First Class and emerged the division’s finest graduating scholar. He additionally holds a grasp’s in Mass Communication from the College of Lagos.
In 2017, he was nominated within the journalism class of The Future Awards Africa, held in Lagos. In 2018, he was a recipient of the West Africa Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA), held in Ghana, in addition to the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Awards, held in Lagos.
In December 2018, alongside different younger journalists throughout Africa, he was named “International Goalkeeper” by the Gates Basis at an elaborate ceremony in South Africa, in recognition of his reporting of the worldwide objectives.
In October 2019, Mr Olawoyin was amongst 12 finalists from all over the world shortlisted for the 2019 Thomson Basis Younger Journalist Award. He additionally clinched the large prize because the 2019 Capital Market Reporter of the 12 months on the PwC Awards for Excellence in Monetary Journalism.
In December 2019, he was additionally amongst three winners of the African Media Improvement Basis (AMDF) Awards, held in Kaduna. In 2020, he was amongst finalists chosen from throughout Africa on the Sanlam Award for Excellence in Monetary Journalism ceremony, held in South Africa.
Mr Olawoyin has attended programs on finance, financial system, oil and gasoline and capital market reporting in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, the UK, United States of America, and different elements of the world.
He’s a 2018 recipient of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting (WSAIR), a 2018 fellow of the Pure Useful resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a 2019 fellow of the African Science Literacy Community (ASLN), a 2020 recipient of the Local weather Tracker’s Journalism Fellowship, a 2021 Fellow of the Worldwide Centre for Journalists (ICFJ), amongst others.
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In October 2022, Mr Olawoyin emerged because the Enterprise Reporter of the 12 months on the West African Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA), held in Accra, Ghana. Mr Olawoyin was additionally a finalist in the identical yr’s editions of the DAME and PwC awards held in Lagos.
As enterprise editor of PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Olawoyin has led a number of reporters within the execution of quite a few editorial tasks for the paper, along with mentoring many reporters inside and outdoors the organisation.
His works have appeared in a number of nationwide and worldwide publications, together with Finance Uncovered, a London-based finance-focused investigative platform, and the New York Instances.
