Amina Oyagbola

Biography

Amina Oyagbola is an independent director and business management consultant with more than 35 years of experience in legal practice and business management in corporate Nigeria, including as a former human resources and corporate services executive at MTN Nigeria. Her career spans human resources strategy and transformation, legal consulting, women’s empowerment, banking and finance, oil and gas, and telecommunications. She is the managing consultant of AKMS Consulting Ltd., a senior partner of Oyagbola Chambers, and a Chevening Scholar.

Among her many affiliations, she is a fellow and former chair of the Africa Leadership Initiative – West Africa, a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and founder and chairperson of WISCAR (Women in Successful Careers), a not-for-profit gender empowerment and strategic mentoring and leadership initiative for professional career women. In 2023, she was appointed to Nigeria’s Presidential Council on Support to Women and Girls, one of several honours recognising her contributions to gender equality and women’s empowerment