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Afolabi Adekaiyaoja is a Guest Relations Associate at Hostmaker, a property technology company that deals with hospitality in several cities around the world. He is also on the Editorial Board of Stears Business, a Nigerian business news organisation known for its authoritative coverage of Nigerian finance. Prior to this, he completed an internship at the African Union Mission to the United Nations and undertook a postgraduate course in social innovation as a Year Here Fellow. He also led on Operations for TEDxEuston, the largest TEDx conference in the world dedicated to pan-African ideas worth spreading.

He graduated from Queen Mary, University of London with a BA in International Relations, and during his time there was President of the African and Caribbean Society and Vice-President of the Model UN society. He recently completed a Masters in African Politics from SOAS, University of London during which he was Co-Chair of the SOAS African Development Forum. He has been active on the MUN circuit, particularly with us as a Chair, Under-Secretary-General Applications in 2016 and Secretary-General for LIMUN 2017.

Afolabi chairs the Board of Trustees and can be reached at afolabi@limun.org.uk

Afolabi Adekaiyaoja
Trustee (2018 - )

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 leads on Alumni Relations and can be reached at denise@limun.org.uk

Denise Chau
Trustee (2014 - )

Aditya Ranjan is an Associate in Oliver Wyman’s global Transportation and Services practice. He supports clients in aviation and aerospace on topics such as strategic planning/visioning, operational resilience, process and behavioural transformation, and digitisation. Prior to his work at Oliver Wyman, he has gained prior work experience in the German automotive and clean energy sectors at BMW, Linde and at TU Munich’s Smart Mobility Lab. He also supports initiatives such as TERN (the Entrepreneurial Refugee Network) and IFBN (Indian Food Banking Network) through their mentorship and volunteering programmes.

He graduated from Imperial College London with an MEng in Aeronautical Engineering. During his time there, he was President of the Imperial Model UN Society and Imperial Consulting Group. He was also very active in Model UN in the UK circuit, particularly for us as a Chair in 2015 and 2018, and as Under-Secretary-General for Chairing for LIMUN 2016.

Aditya leads on Finance and Transformation and can be reached at aditya@limun.org.uk

Aditya Ranjan
Trustee (2018 - )

Leonie Jarrett is Outreach Manager at King’s College London’s Entrepreneurship Institute and is a communications and project management professional with a demonstrated history of working in the social impact sector in the UK and overseas. She is also an Advisory Board Member of Common Purpose’s UK101 Programme - which seeks to create a model of leadership through a free online leadership programme as well as Communications Lead for Fair4All Finance, an organisation founded to support the financial wellbeing of the most vulnerable people in society.

She holds a Bachelors in Social Policy from the University of Bristol. She was previously Communications Manager for the School for Social Entrepreneurs. She is also a project manager for Drivers for Change, a group that inspires and upskills young people to positively disrupt and innovate in their communities.

Leonie leads on Communications and Marketing and can be reached at leonie@limun.org.uk

Leonie Jarrett
Trustee (2019 - )

Zeina is an Egyptian student who recently completed her MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. When she’s not working on LIMUN, she’s a researcher for Kerning Cultures, a venture-backed podcast network in the Middle East. The way to her heart is through food, and she spends far too much time watching Bon Appetit videos, trying to recreate recipes (usually mostly successfully!)

You can contact Zeina at secretarygeneral@limun.org.uk

Zeina Dowidar
Secretary-General

Meshaal Choudhary is the Business Development Administrator at what3words, a global addressing system used in over 170 countries by hundreds of businesses, government organisations, and NGOs. Prior to this, she was a compliance project paralegal at EY and has worked in a variety of commercial and private client practice areas at law firms in London.

She graduated with a Bachelors degree in Law from the University of Kent in 2016, and a MSc Law, Business, and Management and LPC from the University of Law in 2017, and has also earned a CPD certification in Business, International Relations, and Political Economy from the LSE. At university, she was involved in legal societies, dispute resolution tournaments, the community radio station, and - of course - Model United Nations, and has been a LIMUN Chair and former Under-Secretary-General for Personnel in 2017.

Meshaal leads on Compliance and Policy and can be reached at meshaal@limun.org.uk

Meshaal Choudhary
Trustee (2020 - )

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.

Muqaddam leads on Academics and can be reached at muqaddam@limun.org.uk

Muqaddam Malik
Trustee (2020 - )

Moniade Owoade is a current senior status law student at the University of Cambridge, where she's a writer and First Year Representative at the Wilberforce Society, the UK's largest student think tank. Prior to starting at Cambridge, she spent two years at J.P Morgan's Global Public Sector group, a team that provides centralized banking coverage for the firms' public sector clients including governments, sovereign wealth funds, central banks and multilateral institutions.

She graduated from Princeton University in 2017 with a B.A in International Affairs, and during her time there she served on the boards of the African Students Association and Princeton College Counseling Project. She has also worked for Johnson & Johnson's global policy team, SheLeadsAfrica and in the office of Congressman Ami Bera.

Moni leads on Partnerships and can be reached at moni@limun.org.uk

Moniade Owoade
Trustee (2020 - )

Dijana Spasenoska is a Doctoral student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She's a biochemist with a professional interest in Global Health, specifically health policy, demographics and epidemiological research. Her background in this field is vast, including her work as an Intern at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in market shaping in Geneva and her work as a Consultant for the World Health Organisation since March 2019.

She graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Biochemistry, where she was also President of the Model United Nations Society and received a Masters in Global Population Health from the LSE where she was a Programme Student Representative. She has been active in Model UN, as a Chair at several conferences and particularly for us as a Chair in 2016, Under-Secretary-General Chairing in 2017 and as our LIMUN Secretary-General in 2018.

Dijana leads on Strategy and Long-term planning and can be reached at dijana@limun.org.uk

Dijana Spasenoska
Trustee (2020 - )

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