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).