Nigerian tech entrepreneur and CEO of Bookings Africa, Fade Ogunro puts Nigeria on the map with her most recent appointment as a member of the Global Campaign Board for The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, making her the first African and Nigeri-an woman to become part of the organization’s board. x
The Foundation was set up by Cherie Blair CBE QC to help release the potential of women entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries and close the global gender gap in entrepreneurship. Since its inception in 2008, the Foundation has di-rectly supported over 175,000 women across more than 100 countries.
Through its combined approach of programmatic delivery and advocacy, the Founda-tion supports women to start and grow successful micro, small and medium busi-nesses, with training, technology, mentoring and networking at the heart of its work.