Welcome the newest BTT member, Champion Olatunji, who will be working as our student assistant. By joining the Black Think Tank, he will use his skills and resources to promote the objectives of organization in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Champion is passionate about building communities and making significant impact in the world.
Champion Olatunji is a Nigerian trained and licensed attorney studying in the LLM program at Duke University School of Law with a specialization in Finance and Technology. Prior to his arrival at Duke, Champion consulted for emerging technology startups, and technologies enabled enterprises in Nigeria and helped founders navigate partnerships, expansion, and regulatory compliance through Flinthills, where he serves as a Senior Legal Associate. Champion believes that rapidly accelerating technology is revolutionizing the way the financial industry operates, and through the LLM program, he will broaden his research on the emergence of these technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa and how the regulatory drivers understand and respond to them.
Giving his passion for transformational change in Nigeria, especially in areas of education, leadership, and equality, he co-founded the Young Africa Initiative, a not-for-profit organization with the vision to create a developed African continent and to raise new generation of young African leaders through the effective realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and key objectives that include inclusive education for all, social economic development, and poverty alleviation. Through the non-profit, he has collaborated with state private stakeholders to conduct programs for secondary school students in Nigeria; covered five states and trained 150 youths on the importance of leadership through education
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