President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, on Friday appointed a Nigerian businessman, Bayo Ogunlesi, to be on his Economic Advisory team to “Make America Great again”.
As reported by Business Insider, he appointed multi billionaires, including the Nigerian, amongst others.
Ogunlesi is an Ondo State-born and an Oxford and Harvard graduate who is the CEO and Founder of multi billion dollar company Global Infrastructure Partners.
He is also the only black man in the Advisory Committee. Ogulesi’s father was the first Professor of Medicine in Nigeria.
The members of the forum include:
Stephen Schwarzman (forum chairman), chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone
Paul Atkins, CEO of Patomak Global Partners, former commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Mary Barra, chairwoman and CEO, General Motors
Toby Cosgrove, CEO, Cleveland Clinic
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO, BlackRock
Bob Iger, chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Rich Lesser, president and CEO, Boston Consulting Group
Doug McMillon, president and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Jim McNerney, former chairman, president, and CEO of Boeing
Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, chairman and managing partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
Ginni Rometty, chairwoman, president, and CEO of IBM
Kevin Warsh, Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in economics at the Hoover Institute, former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Mark Weinberger, global chairman and CEO, EY
Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO, General Electric
Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize winner, vice chairman of IHS Markit
The group will advise Trump on how to institute policies to encourage job growth and improve productivity, according to the release.
Nigerians are a people to reckon with.