Summit Speaker
Nwanneakolam Vwede-Obahor
Nwanneakolam is the Director/Regional Coordinator of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) Implementation Support Unit (ISU).
Nwanneakolam has over twenty years of experience working in various sectors.
She has served as Senior Human Rights Advisor in Sierra Leone; was Human Rights Officer
at the African Union- United-Nations Hybrid Operation in Dafur, the United Nations Mission
in South Sudan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, the OHCHR country
office in Uganda, and the UNDP Country Office in Liberia; and was the Director of a Non-
Governmental organisation working on conflict resolution and peace advocacy in Nigeria.

Nwanneakolam Vwede-Obahor
Director/Regional Coordinator of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) Implementation Support Unit (ISU)