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Tunde
Ajia

About About

About me

Tunde, an accomplished and visionary strategist in the sphere of project management and advisory services. Spanning more than two decades, Tunde's venerable career has been marked by the astute management and delivery of intricately complex projects and sizeable programmes within the infrastructure milieu across an array of sectors. Performing multiple roles with dexterity, Tunde has served as a project strategist, entrepreneur, and academic. He has had the distinct privilege of consulting for both the Nigerian and UK government, as well as a multitude of private entities, imparting strategic guidance for the execution of megaprojects, infrastructure development, public-private partnership initiatives, and project financing.

Tunde is the dynamic founder and Managing Partner of Jabiut Development Partners, a distinguished Africa-centric advisory firm dedicated to fostering sustainable infrastructure development. Demonstrating his profound leadership in industry, Tunde currently sits on the boards of Oxford Urbanists (OU) and the Sidil Group. He also previously sat on the board of the Project Management Institute (PMI) UK Chapter, the board of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) regional South East network. He was actively volunteered in the project management domain for over a decade and has served on several committees and groups across the Association for Project Management (APM) and the International Project Management Association (IPMA). He is also privileged of being an inducted Associate Fellow of the prestigious Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI).

As a

Chartered Manager

Tunde boasts an impressive educational repertoire. He holds an MSc in Major Programme Management from the prestigious University of Oxford, an MBA from Grenoble Graduate School of Business, and an MSc in Project Management from Northumbria University.

Currently, he is undertaking his doctoral research at the esteemed Cranfield University, delving into complexity within megaprojects. His scholarly pursuits have led to his works being published by the Harvard Africa Policy Journal, a respected publication of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Furthermore, Tunde has lent his expertise to the creation of the 2021 and 2024 Leadership in Complexity Framework by the Global Alliance for Project Professions (GAPPS).