On Wednesday, July 8th, 2026, Lagos becomes the meeting point for Africa's sustainability conversation as FITC hosts the third edition of its Sustainability & ESG Conference, themed "Building a Sustainable Africa: Integrating Environmental Stewardship, Social Impact, and Strong Governance for a Prosperous Future".
Convened by the FITC Sustainability & ESG Institute, the hub FITC launched in 2024 to anchor responsible finance and governance across the continent, this year's gathering brings together financiers, policymakers, and changemakers to move ESG commitments from intention into visible action.
Four plenaries frame the day's dialogue; each is built around a distinct pillar of sustainable transformation. Meet the voices shaping each conversation.
Titan Plenary: From Commitment to Action – Building a Sustainable Africa through Leadership, Investment, and Accountability
Dr Chizor Malize, MD/CEO of FITC, moderates this opening plenary, bringing her institutional stewardship of Nigeria's foremost financial training body to a conversation about turning ESG pledges into measurable results.
Mosun-Belo Olusoga, Chairman of the MTN Foundation, brings decades of philanthropic and corporate leadership experience, guiding one of Nigeria's most visible corporate social investment vehicles toward sustainable, community-anchored impact.
Otunba Bimbo Ashiru, Chairman of Odu'a Investment Company Limited, speaks from the vantage point of regional development finance, steering one of southwestern Nigeria's key investment holding companies toward long-term, accountable growth.
Victoria Uwadoka, Head of Corporate Communications, Public Affairs and Sustainability at Nestlé Nigeria, translates global sustainability commitments into local action, shaping how one of the country's largest consumer goods companies communicates and delivers on its ESG promises.
Prof. Chris Ogbechie, Professor of Strategic Management at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, lends decades of academic rigour to the boardroom conversation, examining how leadership and governance strategy determine whether sustainability commitments survive contact with reality.
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, Co-Founder of Wealth4Impact, arrives as one of Africa's most recognised social entrepreneurs, having spent a career building bridges between capital, agriculture, and inclusive growth across the continent.
Social Plenary- From Responsibility to Impact – Driving Strategic Social Investment for Africa's Development
Serah Makka, Executive Director for Africa at the ONE Campaign, leads this plenary as a global advocacy voice, having spent years advocating for policies and investment that lift the continent's most vulnerable communities.
Peju Ibekwe, CEO of Sterling One Foundation, moderates with a track record of scaling social investment programmes that link corporate resources directly to community transformation across Nigeria.
James Adenuga, Group Chief HSSE and Sustainability Officer at Dangote Industries Ltd, brings an industrial safety and sustainability lens shaped by managing risk and responsibility across Africa's largest industrial conglomerate.
Sandra Vermuijten-Alonge, Head of Programme at GIZ and ECOWAS, contributes a regional development perspective, having worked at the intersection of German development cooperation and West African policy implementation.
Chinwe Ifechiga, Social Performance Advisor at TotalEnergies, discusses how a global energy major measures and manages its social license to operate in host communities.
Tunde Onakoya, Founder of Chess in Slums Africa, offers a grassroots counterpoint, a chess prodigy-turned social entrepreneur whose viral advocacy has redefined how Africans imagine opportunity for children in underserved communities.
Environment Plenary – Leveraging Environmental Stewardship for Business Resilience and Growth
Chinyere Almona, DG/CEO of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, leads this plenary from the vantage point of Nigeria's most influential business advocacy body, championing the case that environmental stewardship is a business imperative, not a burden.
Ayotola O. Jagun, Executive Director at OANDO Plc, moderates with deep experience navigating environmental compliance and transition strategy within one of Nigeria's major indigenous energy companies.
Titi Oshodi, Special Adviser on Climate Change and Circular Economy to the Lagos State Governor, brings a policymaker's view of how Africa's most populous megacity is confronting climate risk in real time.
Titilope Oguntuga, Director of Sustainability at IHS Towers, represents the telecommunications infrastructure sector's growing environmental accountability across its African footprint.
Prof. Kenneth Amaeshi, holder of a Chair in Sustainable Finance and Governance, brings globally recognised academic authority on how capital markets can be structured to reward environmental responsibility.
Tonna Ezema, Head of Sustainable Banking at Fidelity Bank, speaks to how Nigerian financial institutions are embedding environmental risk into lending and investment decisions.
Governance Plenary – Building Trusted Institutions for Sustainable Growth in Africa
Bola Tinubu, Country Managing Partner at DLA Piper Africa, leads this closing plenary with a legal and institutional perspective on what trusted governance frameworks require to hold across African markets.
Tinuade Awe, CEO of TMSN Limited and a member of the Chartered Institute of Directors, moderates with expertise in strategic communications and institutional governance advisory.
Ije Jidenma, President of the Nigeria-South Africa Chamber of Commerce, brings a cross-continental trade and governance perspective, having worked to deepen economic ties between two of Africa's largest economies.
Dr Nosike Agokei, MD/CEO of Agokei & Co, contributes an advisory lens on institutional strengthening and corporate accountability structures.
Chimdi Onwudiegwu, Country Manager at Dalberg, closes the panel with a global development consultancy perspective on what it takes to build institutions Africans can trust for generations.
