Alabi |
The Lagos-based 40-year-old is only the seventh Nigerian selected
for the prestigious fellowship since the programme’s inception in 2002.
Attending Yale’s campus in New Haven, Connecticut, for five months, Alabi will
take part in specially-designed seminars in leadership, management and global
affairs; receive individualised professional development training; attend
courses and engage in discussion with a wide range of distinguished guest
speakers.
Alabi served as M-Net’s Africa Managing Director for five years
until January 2014 when the continent’s leading television content providerappointed
her Director of Special Projects.
As Africa Managing Director, Alabi spent the
past five years increasing and enhancing M-Net’s African portfolio, her achievements
including the launch of Africa Magic
Hausa, Yoruba and Swahili and the expansion of the Africa Magic brand to eight channels. She also oversaw four
editions of the popular reality series Big
Brother Africa as well as the Face of Africa Finale fashion and modelling
extravaganza held in Nigeria in 2010.
A 2012 World Economic Forum Young
Global Leader, last year Alabi was voted West African Businesswoman of the Year
as well as being named one of 20 Young Power Women in Africa by Forbes
magazine.
“Spending five years at the
forefront of the flourishing African film and
television industry with a business as dynamic and visionary as M-Net has been
an incredible experience,” Alabi said. “Now, as I look forward to immersing
myself in the Yale World Fellows programme, I must express my sincere
appreciation to M-Net for the opportunities I have had to learn and to lead.”
After her
Yale fellowship, Alabi will pursue new career opportunities. M-Net Sub-Saharan
Africa CEO Patricia van Rooyen said Alabi’s selection as a Yale World Fellow
was well-deserved recognition of her talent, commitment and leadership.
“African film and television are much richer for her hard work and inspired,
visionary thinking over the past five years,” Van Rooyen said. “We wish her
every success in what will certainly be a glittering career.”
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