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AJARAT BADA

Director, The Missing MDG initiative

Ajarat Bada is a One Young World Ambassador and the Director for the Missing Millennium Development Goal Initiative. She was born and raised in Nigeria but moved to the United States for her college education graduating Magna Cum Laude from Drexel University in Pennsylvania and obtained a Master of Public Health Degree from Loma Linda University in California. She is an enthusiastic, focused and goal-oriented multilingual millennial. Her academic and professional experiences span Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle-East particularly through my advocacy work with NGOs and international organizations including the United Nations. Bada and her work have also been profiled on national and international media including CNN, NPR and Vanity Fair (UK). Her accolades include being named as one of the '40 under 40' Alumni of her Alma mater. She maintains residence between Los Angeles, CA and Lagos Nigeria where she is able to balance her work as a healthcare provider with the Directorship of the 'Missing Millennium Development Goal' initiative, a commitment that has allowed her share ideas with great minds from all over the world. As she continues to invest in her career, find her in a policy analysis classroom, in a hospital, at a conference, on a plane or at her desk.