Mfonobong Ekpo

Mfonobong Ekpo is a maritime lawyer, a development strategist, and a multiple award-winning best-selling author. She is the founder of the Discovery Center, a training organization committed to creating an educated population that will result in educated leaders that can work towards the socio-economic and political development of Nigeria. Mfonobong holds multiple degrees in the fields of business law and social sciences, journalism, neuro linguistic programming, project management, conflict resolution and negotiation. She is a founding partner of the John Maxwell Team and currently the Chief Operating Officer for the Future Project Africa, an organization that has developed programs to identify and showcase leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs in Africa. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship, Mfonobong plans to drive training and development programs focused on harnessing Nigeria’s human capital, transforming Nigeria’s demographic composition into demographic dividends, and training young people on the nature of their involvement in values-based transformational leadership.