Leke Alder
Principal, Alder Consulting & Board Member, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI)

Mr Leke Alder is the founder & Principal of Alder Consulting, an ideas and branding corporation with offices in Lagos and London (www.alder-consulting.com).  Mr Alder is credited with introducing branding as a discipline in Nigeria and has consulted on policy, politics and business at the highest level.  He has consulted on policy formulation for the Federal Government of Nigeria, Federal Ministries of Information & Communication, Education, Foreign Affairs, as well as Solid Minerals Development, among others. He has also consulted on political strategy and communication campaigns at national and sub-national levels.

Mr Leke Alder wrote the blueprint on Nigeria's image management programme - the Heart of Africa project christened Nigeria Rebranding Project; and was the Chief Consultant to the Federal Government on the project.

He has been a panelist at the 8th Annual Africa Business Conference, Harvard Business School; the 9th Annual Africa Business Conference, Wharton Business School; the 1st Annual Africa Business Conference, Kellog School of Management; Financial ADFocus Conference, South Africa and Leadership Forum, Ghana.
Mr Leke Alder was a guest speaker at EDS, Pan African University; the Nigerian Bar Association; Women in Management and Business (WimBiz) Annual Conference and The Platform. And he was also a guest lecturer, School of Media & Communications (SMC), Pan African University.

He was appointed by the Federal Government as a Board Member of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) National Stakeholders' Working Group and is the Chairman of the Communications Committee.

Mr Leke Alder has been a member of the organising committee of the Nigeria Economic Summit. He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of Day Waterman College.

Mr Alder is the author of several books and is the host of a business radio programme, Minding Your Business with Leke Alder on 92.3 Inspiration FM.

Mr Leke Alder’s biblography:

Life as I see it
Minding your Business
Conversations of a 21st Century Saint
The Four Masteries
BizKit, a business development kit for entrepreneurs
Grim White Green
Brandit!
080808 (a novel)
Pilgrimage
The Great Alchemy
My boss is demanding
The Contemplative MBA
On Purpose
Of Madmen, Senators and Ambassadors
On Man