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He attended Macalester College in Minnesota.
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Fred Swaniker
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He has launched five organizations that aim at developing leaders, primarily in Africa. His father was a lawyer and magistrate. His mother is an educator.
Both are Ghanaian, but he had lived in four countries in Africa by the time he was 18.
He worked for McKinsey & Company in Johannesburg, then graduated from the Stanford School of Business in California, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar of Stanford University. He decided to launch a top-notch school for African students in Africa.
He used his Silicon Valley connections to find financial backing and launched the African Leadership Academy in 2004. The school teaches leadership skills to high school juniors and seniors from throughout Africa.
Foreign most students tuition is waived, provided they stay in Africa after graduating.
He also co-founded the African Leadership Network, a gathering of African leaders under the age of 50, which takes place every year in a selected African city, and the Global Leadership Adventures program Swaniker"s work as an educational entrepreneur has been praised by United States. President Barack Obama and other prominent global figures. He has been named a TED Fellow (2009) and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2012).
He was named one of the Top Ten Young Power Men in Africa by a 2011 Forbes Magazine online feature.
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He is the chairman and founder of the African Leadership Academy, an institution located outside Johannesburg in South Africa that aims to develop 6,000 transformative leaders for Africa over a 50-year period. He is also the founder of African Leadership Network, Global Leadership Adventures, and Africa Advisory Group.
