Zouera Youssoufou is the Managing Director/CEO of Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), the largest private Foundation in sub-saharan Africa, based in Lagos. She leads the Foundation’s mission to enhance opportunities for social change through strategic investments that improve health and wellbeing, promote quality education, and broaden economic empowerment opportunities.

She also sits on several Boards including Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria, ABC Health, Women’s World Banking, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and ONE Global Leadership Circle.

Before joining ADF, Zouera was World Bank Group’s Country Manager for Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tomé and Principe. Her other experiences include working with the European Union on private sector development issues, and management consulting with Deloitte.

Zouera holds an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BBA in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Isenberg School of Business. She is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Hausa.