Margaret Obiageli Olele is currently the Chief Executive Officer/ Executive Secretary of the American Business Council. Prior to this role she was the Corporate Affairs director for Pfizer in West, East and Southern African Markets responsible for public affairs and communication engagements and for three years led the Access, Key Accounts, Tenders, and Institution Business in addition to the Corporate Affairs role. She has over 30 years’ experience engaging governments in Africa on behalf of private sector and 25 years leadership experience in the Food and Pharma Industry traversing Government Affairs, Business Development, regulatory, communication, Quality Management system auditing across sub- Sharan Africa.
Margaret has provided expertise to Government Agencies including the technical standards and National Codex Alimentarius Committees of the Standard Organization of Nigeria, the Vetting and compliance Panel of Nigeria Advertising Regulatory Agency in charge of vetting all advertising and communication materials and more recently National Office of Technology, Acquisition and Promotion. She has also provided expertise and capacity building advisory to patient Advocacy Groups, Chambers, Women, trade and industry associations on growth and expansion strategies.
Some of these include Africa Pharmaceutical Forum, International Alliance for Patient Associations (IAPO Africa), AMCHAM Cameroon, AMCHAM Mali and Wimbiz. Margaret hosts the American Business Council Podcast, The Business Exchange: How Business Works” and uses this platform to promote visibility of women leaders, entrepreneurs who are contributing to the different sectors of business in Nigerian and African economy. Margaret is a fellow of the Advertising Practitioners’ Council of Nigeria, the highest award of the Advertising Profession in Nigeria. She has a BA in English and Literature, MA in English, and a MSc. in Mass Communication specializing in Public Relations and Advertising.
Margaret loves teaching and she was an Adjunct Faculty teaching brand strategy and Commumication at the Graduate school of Media and Communication at the Pan Atlantic University among others.
