Meet Olumide Adeleye
Olumide Adeleye is a digital learning consultant, IT expert and agile business analysis coach with several years of experience in the domains of learing and development, media, tech and business. He is the Founder & Rector of Twim Institute, a partner centre of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT (also known as the British Computer Society), and EduQual Ltd (UK), both of which are UK-government-approved awarding bodies in the higher education industry.
Olumide is currently studying for an MSc in Smart EdTech at Universite Cote d’Azur, France. He has an MBA in Business Management from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, a Postgradate Diploma in Mass Communication from the National Open University of Nigeria, and a Bachelors’ degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. He also holds several certifications in business analysis, and is a member of the British Computer Society.
After his bachelors degree, he enrolled for a series of programs in tech and media arts at a number of tech and vocational schools in India. During that period, he observed that India’s focus on vocational education created self-employment opportunities for her young people and decided to implement this model in Nigeria. The result was Twim Academy, a school that raises entrepreneurs in the vocational arts, now known as Twim Institute. Twim Academy was named one of the “50 Most Innovative Startups in Africa” by New York Forum Africa.
Oumide Adeleye was a 2015 Yunus & Youth Fellow, a 2015 Finalist for the Ford Foundation Prize for Youth Employment and a 2015 MasterCard Foundation / Ashoka “Innovations for Youth Employment in Africa” winner. He was a Fellow at the DO School in Germany where he worked to strategize on how to scale an innovative educational product developed by Siemens Stiftung across Africa. In 2016, Olumide worked with Leading Change, a project of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education and The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, to produce educational content for the training of the Queens Young Leaders. In the same year, he was a Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum Fellow, working with Orange Magazine and the European Youth Press to tell stories of Germany’s biggest media event. In 2017, he was a Leap Africa Social Innovation Fellow, and an aKoma Amplify Storytelling Fellow. In 2018, He received Leap Africa’s 2018 Dr. Pamela Hartigan Prize for Social Innovation. In 2021, he was a finalist for JCI’s “10 Outstanding Young Persons in Nigeria” award.
