Tomi Jaiyeola

Tomi is an international development professional with progressive project management experience directing education, technology, and economic initiatives across Eastern and Western Africa. Tomi has extensive experience in education, women and technology, including working for Co-Creation Hub Design Lab in Rwanda, a technology and social innovation center led by a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers, and researchers who collaborate to explore and apply emerging technologies to solve Africa’s systemic and structural challenges. Tomi also managed projects for the Office of the Special Adviser on Education, for the Lagos State Government in Nigeria. In that role, she led the CodeLagos project - an Education Technology Initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Education to train one million Lagos State residents. She drove the successful execution of the project across 600+ centers, working with more than 1000 facilitators and 16 project delivery partners.

Tomi worked with the previous Lagos State Government on the most lauded education project till date, ReadySetWork. which is an employability and entrepreneurship development program designed for final-year university students, to equip them with market-aligned soft skills, business tools, and orientation to employment. She provided end-to-end advisory and support to ensure the efficient delivery of the training program to reach 25,000 students. She also co-developed the curriculum content, and a curriculum development framework to guide effective program facilitation, monitor feedback, and evaluate students’ learning outcomes. Tomi has extensive data analysis experience from her professional career.  She was an Operational Research Consultant for World Vision in Sierra Leone, where she designed data collection tools and supervised data gathering and analysis across nine program areas in Sierra Leone. Before her time in Sierra Leone, Tomi served in the Strategic Programming & Sponsorship Effectiveness Team with World Vision USA, where she conducted reviews and assessments of integrated development programs across different continents.

She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Pepperdine University, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Economics & Finance from Durham University in the UK, and a Masters in Public Policy from Pepperdine School of Public Policy.