Edwin Ikhuoria is a value-driven, passionate development professional with over 20 years of practice in multi-cultural contexts across Africa, using creative strategies to influence social and economic transformation by pursuing new solutions and partnering with famous African talents and social groups, NGOs, philanthropies, and government institutions. As an Advocacy professional he has designed and implemented advocacy strategies for agriculture and food security, health and education financing, and government transparency policies, using in-depth policy analysis, citizens mobilization and participation tactics to influence outcomes.

He held several positions at the ONE Campaign rising to Africa Executive Director where he led several high impact campaigns working with talents across Africa in Agriculture (“Do Agric”), Gender equality (Strong girl) Health (Make Naija Stronger), Pandemic response (“Stand Together”, “Pass the mic”, “Myth or Vax”) and Jobs (“Jobs Now Africa”) using various social media platforms to mobilize a critical mass of public voices to shift policies and political response to these issues.

He has coordinated several research and impact evaluation projects in different sectors including health, education, food and livelihood security, public policy advocacy as Field Coordinator at DIME (The World Bank) and has co-authored several articles on Post-Pandemic Health Financing , People’s Charter on Jobs, Shifting and Accelerating DFI investment as Africa Director of the ONE Campaign.

Edwin holds two Master’s degrees in Geographic Information Systems and Development management from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and University of Turin, Italy, respectively. He is currently a PhD candidate in Behavioural Economics at Middlesex University, London.