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Dr. Modupe is an education policy expert with several years of research experience spanning academic and private sector research. She has led work streams on a range of education sector support initiatives funded or assisted by international donors and funding agencies such as the UK Department for International Development (DfID), World Bank, Open Society Institute (OSI) and MacArthur Foundation.
Dr. Modupe previously worked with Accenture and Junior Achievement, as an associate of Crans Montana Forum Monaco. She was Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee which designed, organized and reported the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES20) on Education held in March 2014. As a Centenary Scholar (Africa), she received a PhD in Education and international Development from the Institute of Education (IOE), University of London where her research probed the effectiveness of public and private schools in Nigeria and proposed a framework for public-private partnership (PPP) in the education sector. She also bagged herself a Master’s Degree in M.Ed. Education and International Development with a Distinction in 2005. Mo was a trustee of the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, London, and currently serves on the boards of three non-profits.
She had worked as an Analyst in Financial service firm, Accenture; as a Regional Vice president, Programmes and Development for Junior Achievement Nigeria; an Associate Director at Youth Dynamix Nigeria, a marketing and Operational Company; and also a monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) – DfID/UKAID
