About Ngunan

Ngunan is a trained legal practitioner, gender development specialist, and product and certified project management professional (PMP) She is a member of the Project Management Institute. A result-oriented Project manager with seven years of project planning and implementing experience in non-profit, education and IT industries. Led innovative projects that serve 2,000,000 people in crisis-induced settings with budgets of $300M across Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK, reducing homelessness and sexual exploitation by 20% and awarded the “Most Impactful” award, given to the top 2 per cent of project managers based on total impact on the organisation; promoted twice in 18 months, ahead of schedule and nominated in the “Inclusive Impact” awards for contribution in building inclusive communities for International students.

She specialises in launching new products and services from concept to rollout and building organisations from the ground up. Ngunan also has expertise in improving team performance while securing and retaining clients and funders and forging valuable relationships with internal and external partners. Ngunan is an experienced project, program, and communications manager trained in product management, Qualitative research, Stakeholder and scheduling management. She has skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, creative project planning, and ideation. She is a top 40 African Union Education Innovator 2019, ONE Champion, and YALI Alumni, including alumni of the prestigious changemakers exchange program created by Ashoka and Robert Bosch.

She loves writing and reading fictional books; her favourite author is John Grisham. Ngunan also loves travelling to new places, meeting people from diverse cultures, learning about different cultures and hosting events. She has worked in several managerial positions and retains her position as the Executive Director of Samuel Ioron Foundation, a non-profit organisation breaking gender barriers hindering access to development and educational opportunities for women.

Ngunan graduated with a third class from her university and proceeded to graduate with a second class upper division at the Nigerian Law School, where she graduated in 2018 - at the top of her class and has, despite her earlier poor grades, secured admission and scholarships in several prestigious schools with partial funding in some schools- two in the UK and the USA including the prestigious International peace Women Scholarship (PEO).

She is a Barack Obama 'Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) RLC Accra Fellow 2017, Tedx Johannesburg 100ideas 100millenials Fellow 2018, an Ashoka Xchange Changemakersxchange 2019, where she returned as a learning facilitator to train prospective international project managers in 2020 during the Arte Vision project, an African Union Education Innovator Finalist 2019 for her work on IVY; an illustration book she created depicting the struggles of child brides and importance of education. In recent times, Ngunan’s pitch on launching a for-profit alternative menstrual business was selected for some start-up grants. She won a grant of N 1,000,000 from the Friends of Professor Osibanjo and later competed for the Orange Corners Incubation Program sponsored by The Netherlands, where she won 5000 Euros. Ngunan is also a LEAP Africa Fellow 2021.

As a graduate student, Ngunan curated the “Cultured You” program, a multicultural-centred event supporting migrants and debasing racism in UK Universities. She was nominated for the Inclusive Impact Award for her contributions to creating safe spaces for international students in York, UK.

"Change begins with you."

Ngunan loves working on impact projects - and has managed 30+ projects. She has won over $3M in grants for developing and implementing diverse projects and worked with amazing teams to ensure a positive impact and change mindset. She launched the Digital Up with Ngunan - a week-long training supporting people with the needed skills and knowledge for the work of NOW.