Meet Tinubu’s Special Advisers on Energy and Health
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Olú A. Verheijen as his Special Adviser on Energy and Dr Salma Ibrahim Anas as Special Adviser on Health.
Meet the newly appointed Special Adviser on Energy to President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Olu A. Verheijen is an Advisor for the Energy for Growth Hub.
She has nearly 20 years’ experience in the gas and renewables sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa, and is currently Managing Director at Latimer Energy, a consulting firm advising clients on value optimization in acquisition, development and management of energy assets.
Previously, she was a Partner at Persistent, an early stage investment firm with a pan-African portfolio of distributed renewables companies, a Deal Lead at Shell and advised on gas commercialization and M&A transactions, and worked for Moody’s Investors Service in New York.
Olu is the Founder/CEO of BFA Foundation which funds scholarships for women and other disadvantaged groups to expand their career advancement opportunities in high growth sectors, including the energy sector.
She is also an angel investor across various sectors and serves as a Trustee of the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Association of Nigeria.
She has a BA from Long Island University and Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
PBAT Special Adviser on Health…
Who is Tinubu’s new Health Adviser:
Dr. Mrs Ibrahim Ana’s Salma has over twenty-five years of experience in Health Sector Development. She has experience in health sector policy formulation, strategic development, resource mobilization and implementation of various health programmes at international, regional and national levels
Her technical skills and expertise cut across Health Systems Strengthening with particular reference to PHC and Health System Strengthening and a passion for improving access to quality Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Adolescent and Elderly Health plus Nutrition (RMNCAEH+N) services, including Sexual and Reproductive Rights, as well as Gender Based Violence. She is vastly experienced both in the public and the private sector.
She is currently the Director, Family Health Services at the FMOH where she leads key Divisions including Reproductive Health, Child Health and Gender, Adolescent, School Health and Elderly Care (GASHE), Nutrition and Health Promotion Divisions.
Prior to that she had been the Director/Head Special Projects & National Coordinator Health Sector Humanitarian Crisis Response of the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria.
At the state level, Dr Salma has been a two-time Honorable Commissioner of Health for her state of Borno where she led the state at the peak of that region’s humanitarian crisis where her excellent performance accorded her many awards from various organizations including an award for the best performing Commissioner in the Northeast on Polio Eradication.
In the private sector, Dr Salma has been the Assistant Country Representative/Head Reproductive Health/HIV, United Nations Funds for Population Activities (UNFPA), Nigeria; the National Team Leader for the DFID-funded MNCH2 project and the Deputy Country Director, Strengthening Nigeria’s Response on HIV/AIDS (SNR)/DFID, Family Health International (FHI).
She has also served as a Country Officer on HIV/STIs for the World Health Organization Sana’a, Yemen.
-Omohglobalnews.com
