Afolabi Adekaiyaoja assumed the Chair of the Board of Trustees on June 1, 2019 for a two-year term, which was renewed in 2021. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since April 28, 2018 for a term that lapsed when he became Chair. He has been a LIMUN delegate, chair, was part of the team that developed the LIMUN: High School conference, served as USG Applications in 2016 and was Secretary-General in 2017.

Afolabi is Nigerian and received a BA in International Relations from Queen Mary, University of London in 2016 and a Masters in African Politics from SOAS, University of London in 2020. While at QMUL, he was president of the Afro-Caribbean society and vice-president of the Model United Nations society. At SOAS, he was co-chair of the African Development Forum 2019. He is a Research Analyst at the Centre for Democracy and Development West Africa

Afolabi chairs the Board and is on its the Governance and Project Committee

Denise Chau is a Vice-President, M&A at Alantra. She has over five years of experience in financial services, primarily working on large, cross-border credit M&A transactions on behalf of banks and private equity funds, which has taken her across the Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European region. As the longest-serving member of the Board, she has led on many of LIMUN new initiatives and lends her expertise to efforts including finance, partnerships and recruitment to the Board.

She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Cell Biology and Genetics from the University of British Columbia, and a Masters in Management degree from the London Business School. During her Masters, she served as the Deputy Secretary-General of LIMUN 2012. Prior to her move, she had also been active in the North American Model UN circuit since senior high school.

Denise is on the Development and Engagements Committee of the Board

Nudhara Yusuf currently works with the UNDP Policy Support Bureau on SDG integration and digital knowledge management. She is founder and leader of several grassroots NGOs and CSOs in India and the UK, primarily focusing on skills-based development of youth in civil society. In the past she worked with the World Federation of UN Associations (WFUNA)'s Education and Training team and supported UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's UN75 campaign.

She holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University College London (UCL) and has really spent time at Yale studying youth involvement in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, her interests lie in the intersection of skills-based empowerment and the policy environment which enables it.

Nudhara is on the Governance and Projects Committee of the Board

Alex is a trainee solicitor at Allen & Overy LLP and currently sits in the firm's Leveraged Finance practice. He has been a delegate, chair and secretariat member at a range of MUN conferences, mostly recently serving as USG Chairing for LIMUN in 2021. Alex is also a trustee for GROW Mentoring, a charity promoting diversity, inclusion, and social mobility in the legal profession through mentoring. He has previously held governance, compliance, and finance roles at a range of organisations both at university and throughout his career, including a governor position at a specialist social, emotional and mental health needs school.

He studied Archaeology at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before completing the Postgraduate Diploma in Law (PGDL) and the LLM Commercial Legal Practice at BPP University.

George Mullens is a Project Manager at Terrapinn, a conference production company producing large scale conferences for industry. He previously worked with UN agencies, INGOs and governments to create forums to analyse and discuss the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

George is British-Italian and holds an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from SOAS, University of London and an LLB in Law with Politics from the University of Sussex where he was president of the Model UN Society for two years. George also served on the secretariat for both of our conferences, First, as Deputy Secretary-General of our first LIMUN: High School conference, then serving as the second Secretary-General, before becoming Under Secretary-General for Logistics for LIMUN 2019.

George is on the Governance and Project Committee.

Muqaddam Malik is a recipient of the LSE Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa Graduate Fellowship, where his work involves conducting research on academic perspectives on the African continent. He has also conducted internships at the Kenyan National Chamber of Commerce & Industry and in the Economic and Trade Department of the African Union. He also brings some MUN Charity expertise, having overseen the planning and creation of NorwichMUN which caters to high school students and sat on the Board of Trustees for 3 years.

He graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics where he was also actively involved in societies as President of the International Students Society, and the university Model UN society. He has recently received a Masters in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science where he was Under-Secretary-General Staffing at LSE MUN, a Research Staff at the LSE Emerging Markets Forum and Co-Director of the LSE Africa Summit. He is familiar on the MUN circuit as a dedicated chair, and we have also had the pleasure of having him chair committees at both our UC and HS conferences.

Muqi is on the Development and Engagements Committee of the Board