Faith Olayinka Omolere

Olayinka’s career has been at the intersection of business and social impact, and he is committed to exploring business solutions to social problems.

Early in his career, he worked at Ernst & Young on process optimization and organization restructuring for clients in Nigeria’s energy and insurance sectors. Subsequently, he worked at Asoko Insight – a corporate data startup – and collected private company data to expose high-growth African firms, in agriculture, healthcare and IT, to global investment and trade opportunities. He also facilitated trade missions of the Japan External Trade Organisation and Netherlands-African Business Council.

Recently, he worked at Dalberg on global development topics including financial inclusion, and agriculture. While there, he supported the development of the “Human Account Framework” -a global customer segmentation model to help financial service providers better understand and serve 2 billion people.

As a Jacobs Fellow, Olayinka is excited about engaging with other fellows to identify cross-disciplinary solutions to social challenges and, contributing to developing the Jacobs Network.