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Did you know that the United Kingdom’s Gatwick Airport is owned by a Nigerian? Adebayo Ogunlesi’s company, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) purchased it for £1.45 billion in 2009. The King’s College, Lagos, Oxford and Harvard alumnus emigrated to the US several decades ago and soon emerged a private-equity tycoon on Wall Street. His expertise has led him to serve as an adviser to two US Presidents. First, on President Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum and then on President Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Ogunlesi, the newest member of OpenAI’s board recently committed to supporting Nigeria’s investment drive by leading a distinguished global investment strategic group on a biannual visit to Nigeria to engage with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Mr Adebayo Ogunlesi’s current net worth according to Forbes is $2.4 billion.
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