by The President of the United States of America, Mr Joe Biden has appointed two Nigerian Americans, Mr Osagie Imasogie and Chinenye Ogwumike into his Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.
The appointees, Mr Osagie Imasogie and Chinenye Ogwumike are part of the 12 members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.
Congratulating the duo on the appointments, the Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed that their recognition and appointment into the 12-member advisory council is a motivation for other Nigerians and Africans in general.
According to Mrs Abike on Wednesday via a statement by the commission’s spokesman, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, “The nomination of the two great Nigerians into the advisory council is a welcome development.”
Report has it that Chinenye Ogwumike is a two-time WNBA All-Star for the Los Angeles Sparks and a full-time multi-platform ESPN commentator and NBA analyst.
She doubles as one of the only full-time professional athletes to also currently hold a full-time regular national sports media broadcast position.
Ogwumike is also the 2014 WNBA Rookie of the Year and a two-time WNBA All-Star (2014, 2018). She is proudly Nigerian-American and graduated from Stanford University with an International Relations degree under the mentorship of Dr. Condoleezza Rice.
In August 2020, she became the first Black woman to host a national daily sports-talk radio show.
On the other hand, Mr Osagie Imasogie, is the Chairman of the Investment Bank and SEC/FINRA registered Broker-Dealer, Quoin Capital and Quoin Advisors.
Mr Imasogie is a co-founder of PIPV Capital, a private equity firm that is focused on the life sciences vertical and has invested over $1 billion into that industry.
Prior to co-founding PIPV Capital, he established GlaxoSmithKline Ventures and was its founding Vice President.
He holds LLM degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and is a member of the New York State Bar in addition to being admitted to practice in other jurisdictions.
