Before joining the Blavatnik School, I worked with GIZ and the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Arusha, Tanzania on strategy development, multilateral financial diversification, as well as bolstering the domestication of treaties by AU member states. Prior to this, I graduated with a first-class degree in Politics and IR from Warwick, with a year abroad at the University of Hong Kong, during which (and closely after), I undertook internships in the public and private spheres. This includes Clifford Chance and Mckinsey, working on private equity funds and strengthening women in consulting-leadership, the Institute of Justice & Democracy on sexual violence in Haiti and WHO on rural healthcare infrastructure. My interests include strengthening governance and economic diversification to harness Africa's demographic dividend, gender and data-technology. As a UK national, with Nigerian diaspora roots, this extends to reconstructing UK-Africa relations for mutual political-economic development.

Stephanie Ifayemi is the Duke of Cambridge Scholar at the University of Oxford 2018-19.