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Adeola Olumeyan is a strategic legal advisor and non-executive director with experience in policy development, corporate governance, legal risk management, and intellectual property. A certified Board/Corporate Governance Auditor and Trainer, with demonstrated ability to consistently deliver value across businesses and obtain successful outcomes in a varied range of legal, governance and regulatory matters. She is also a Notary Public and the Assistant General Counsel at Channels Media Group, where she leads the development/implementation of policies to enshrine good corporate governance within the Group. She is a core member of the Group’s risk management team. As the Compliance officer and Coordinator of Channels Limited, UK, she supervises the development/implementation of policies for the UK operations. She regularly conducts Board evaluations and trainings for Organizations in Nigeria. Adeola also provides corporate governance and ESG trainings for SMEs to help them build sustainable business practices. She has served on Ministerial Committees set up by the Hon. Minister of Information and Culture. In 2021, she served as a member of the Advertising Practitioners Council Of Nigeria Code Review Committee. In 2019, she was the Secretary of the Sub-Committee on Monitoring/Technical, and member of the Legal Committee for the Reform of the National Broadcasting Commission. As a Director/chairman of the Board’s Governance Committee for Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN), she helps drive the shaping of JAN’s corporate governance processes and policies. She is also a Director/chairman of the Board’s Risk and Governance Committee for Kaizen Academy Limited where she assists the Board in fulfilling its corporate governance oversight responsibilities. In 2022, Adeola was nominated in two distinguished categories and won the nomination as a “Compliance Leader” by the prestigious “Modern Governance 100” (Diligent Corporation, UK). In 2022, recognized as one of 20 “Corporate Gems”(a special recognition to celebrate “leading/exceptional” General Counsel in Nigeria) by the prestigious ESQ Award. In 2020, recognized as one of “Forty Leading Ladies on Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria” by the Private Sector Advisory Group Nigeria (PSAG) in collaboration with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on SDGs. PSAG is a UN-led initiative for the SDGs working in collaboration with leading private businesses championing SDGs in Nigeria. In 2019 and 2016, she was recognized as one of “40 Leading Nigerian Lawyers Under 40” who will shape the future of the legal profession in Nigeria. She holds an MBA from Lagos Business School and has attended leadership courses at Harvard Business School, USA , TEXEM UK and Nanyang Business School, Singapore.