Niyi Meka Olowola serves as Managing Partner, Zenera Consulting Limited, a communications firm providing investor relations and reputation management services. Meka is also the Executive Chairman of BuzzDigital, a social media and digital marketing company. Meka is an exponent of sustainability in Africa. He advocates that an expanded culture of social responsibility and ethical action by government, individuals and corporate bodies is at the heart of the panacea to current economic challenges and negative realities in Africa. CSR-in-Action, a non-profit, one-stop platform for the promotion and unification of Corporate and Collective Social Responsibility in West Africa, where he is Board member, remains a major vehicle of expression of passion for him. Meka has been instrumental to the firm's hosting of the annual Sustainability in the Extractive Industries (SITEI) Conference. Work experience Meka's work experience straddles Public Relations, Banking, and Oil and Gas. Appointments In 2012, Meka was appointed by the Honorable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy to the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a Member of the Special Subcommittee on Nigeria's Hosting of the World Economic Forum on Africa in 2014. He is a member of the Board of CSR-in-Action, a non-profit, one-stop platform for the promotion and unification of Corporate and Collective Social Responsibility in West Africa. He was recently one of only two black African speakers at the prestigious Global China Business Meeting in The Hague, organised by Horasis. Meka is a faculty board member of ValueConcepts Kenya, a training firm that provides manpower development services to the East African region. In 2014, he was appointed to the faculty of Mara Mentors of the Mara Group, mentoring youths on professional development, particularly on brands management.
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