Ibilola Amao

Ibilola Amao is a Nigerian and British engineer, principal consultant of Lonadek Services (United Kingdom and Nigeria) and consultant for the vision 2020 initiative.She received several awards such as most active women business enterprise IWEC 2016, Energy Institute Champion 2016, C3E international woman of distinction Award, Access Bank “W” 100, and the 2019 Forbes Africa rising star Award She was a Vital Voices (VV) GROW fellow, a member of vv100 and a WEConnect international fellow. Ibilola was also the co-founder of the cedar STEM and entrepreneurship hub.

Quotes

• Integrity pays!!! It may take a very long time to achieve but it truly pays.
  • In an interview with Oyinlola Sale
• Every win, every success, every contribution to ensuring that the platforms for women and women opportunities increase is breaking the stereotype! It is only male-dominated because not enough females have been given the opportunity, not because females are less qualified.
  • In an interview with Oyinlola Sale
• It’s hard to be a girl in STEM. We need to stand out as role models, to show it’s possible to be a female engineer and have a family.
  • opinion on building the capacity, capability and competency of African women and girls in STEM
• Our aim is to empower youths and prepare them for a fulfilling and rewarding career ahead.
• To add value to the Nigerian economy through the ‘catch-them-young’ strategy of reaching out to the grassroots for promising students who can drive Nigeria into a position of dominance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics by year 2020 and beyond.
• So as we engage, we pick from the issues and challenges we are faced with and we try and translate it to the jobs for the future.
• The issues and challenges we see in oil and gas and energy and infrastructure industry inform our themes.

Mainstreaming science, gender into development agenda