Sunday Taiwo is a media and development professional with over five years’ experience in leveraging digital technology to enhance social development, particularly in the areas of youth mobilization for community development, governance and policy reform advocacy, and education for sustainable development. With proven track record, he has driven impactful results by steering effective communication strategies, spearheading project activations and managing partnerships with critical stakeholders for non-profit civic-tech organizations in Africa, including LeapSpring Network, Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI), and FactCheckAfrica.

As a serial volunteer, he has engaged extensively with a number of local, national and global organizations, including LightHub Initiative (which he co-founded), TEDxAllianceWay, The Smart Project, Super Parents Foundation, Peace First, Social Development and Advocacy Project (SDAP), and World’s Largest Lesson, where his substantial contributions have played a pivotal role in driving impactful humanitarian projects which have impacted lives across different regions of Nigeria. In 2019, he served as a community educator for the World’s Largest Lesson “Introducing the Global Goals in Africa” program through which he, alongside 36 fellow SDGs advocates, introduced the Global Goals to over 12000 students across secondary schools in South-West Nigeria.

Sunday is a member of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Nigeria, and a 2023 Fellow of The Platform Young Professionals Bootcamp (YPB). At the University of Ibadan, his alma mata, he served as president for the National Association of Oyo Students and as Chairman, Educational Management Students Association Electoral Committee, between 2017 and 2019. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Educational Management/English Language.