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Speaker

Faith Nwadishi, is a Nigerian, an Activist, a Civil Engineering Technologist and a humanist. She is the Founder of an NGO, Koyenum Immalah Foundation (KIF) based in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria championing the cause of marginalization of women in the electoral process and extractives affected communities, she is passionate about women and youth. She was the National Coordinator of Publish What you Pay (PWYP) Nigeria, past member of the African Steering Committee, and past Civil Society representative on the National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG) of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. (NEITI). She was a member of the Global Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) representing Anglophone African civil society actors. The first Nigerian to serve on the Board for two consecutive terms for six years.
Faith, is also a champion of women and extractive issues as well as a women’s rights advocate is the Convener of Zero Gas Flare initiative, Contract Transparency Network, Coordinator of the Women in Extractives campaign in Nigeria among others.