Afua Osei
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University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Harris School of Public Policy Studies
Afua Osei | |
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| Education | Allegheny College University of Chicago Booth School of Business Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
| Alma mater | Allegheny College |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Known for | co-founding She Leads Africa |
Afua Osei is an entrepreneur, investor and public speaker who co-founded She Leads Africa, a media company for millennial African women.[1]
Born in Washington, DC,[2] Osei spent her formative years in Prince George's County, Maryland. Osei graduated cum laude from Allegheny College with degrees in Political Science and was the first student to design their own major in Black Studies.[3] She was awarded the Ray Smock Political Science Award for showing promise in municipal and state politics as well as the Faculty Prize for the Best Interdisciplinary Senior Thesis.
In 2013, she graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business[4] and Harris School of Public Policy Studies with a Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Policy.[5]
Career
After graduating from college, Osei was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia and also served in the Office of First Lady Michelle Obama.[6] After business school, Osei moved to Lagos, Nigeria to serve as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company[7] providing strategy and operations expertise to clients in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and the United States.
In 2014, Osei co-founded She Leads Africa, a "community for smart ambitious young African women," with Yasmin Belo-Osagie.[8][9] She Leads Africa provides women across more than 35 countries with business and career advice and has been featured in several international publications including The Financial Times,[10] CNN,[11] CNBC Africa,[12] Huffington Post,[13] and Black Enterprise.[14] On December 9, 2016, She Leads Africa rang the Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange.[15]
In her personal business, Afua teaches digital entrepreneurship and coaches people on how to use networking to scale their business.[16]