Jinadu Oluwatosin Oluwafunmibi

Age: 21 | Location: Lagos, Nigeria

I am Jinadu Oluwatosin Oluwafunmibi, a 500 level law student of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, Nigeria. I have a keen interest in commercial law, business development and analysis, operations and event management. I advocate for a sustainable economy through entrepreneurship and I believe STEM is a major tool in achieving this.
I am also a writer - using pop culture to drive a wide audience. In one word, I’d say I’m a problem-solver—Bring your problems to me and we’ll both figure out how to solve them.

How do you feel to join the Youth STEM Summit Design Team?

Joining the Youth STEM Summit Design Team is helping me achieve one of my biggest goals this year which is to put myself on a global platform and drive positive change. I became more excited when I met with the other members of the team— brilliant people from all over the world. We’re basically the “power team” the world has been waiting for.

What are you most looking forward to about the Design Team?

I am looking forward to learning , relearning and unlearning from the Design Team, more so with the diversity of backgrounds and experiences on the team. I’m also looking forward to collaborating with the team in putting Youth STEM 2030 on a global platform which it deserves.

What are you hoping to bring to the Design Team?

I am bringing my creativity, organizational and planning skills. Since the target audience of the summit are young people,  there is a need for eye catching ideas put together in an organized manner in reaching them.

Why did you decide to get involved?

I believe there’s an onus upon me to create the future we all long for, more so using a tool as powerful as STEM. Being part of the design team is an opportunity to fulfill my obligations in recreating the world to a state of utopia.

Why is young people making a difference through STEM important?

Truth is, we’re living in the future created by the older generations and in order to create our own future we need to maintain the existing credible systems and remodel the faulty ones. Young people have to rise to this responsibility. STEM affects every area of our lives, from feeding to transportation, education and a lot more. Hence, in order to create the perfect future we need to utilize effectively the one tool that affects basically every aspect of our lives.

What are you most excited for at the Summit itself?

At the summit, there’ll be an awakening of the minds of young people. There’ll be a shift in a mindset from dependency to responsibility in bringing about change with STEM. This excites me the most!

What do you hope to achieve through the Summit?

Through the summit, I hope to have effectively carried out my duty in equipping young people who will take up the reins to run the future smoothly using STEM in all aspects of human development.