OLAMIDE FLORENCE ADEOYE

ABOUT

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Portrait taken by photographer, audio producer and creative practitioner Derick Armah, 2025

Olamide Florence Adeoye is a generalist and systems thinker with a cross-disciplinary approach to problem-solving. She is excited about exploring how technology connects different industries and disciplines while shaping global society. She believes that because nothing exists in isolation, finding connections allows us to find gaps (or opportunities) to create innovative solutions that better society.

Previously, she worked on a range of different projects across the UK Government Digital Service – including a special ministerial initiative. She initially began her career in the UK Civil Service as a summer intern, where she was in the top 5% of all applicants for the programme in 2018 and has previously worked in non-profit and social enterprise education organisations.

Olamide Florence is currently looking for roles within high impact/social impact organisations and start-ups. Specifically, she is looking for roles in:

  • Strategy and Operations
  • Special Projects/Strategic Initiatives
  • in the Office of the CEO (including Founding Associate/Generalist)
  • …but is open to anything that sparks her interest

Currently, she is particularly interested in:

  • AI development, policy and governance
  • Global public health
  • Global risks
  • Human connection
  • Theories of global power
  • …with a digital focus across all areas.

She has a broad yet robust skillset covering:

  • executive leader support
  • process and information management
  • systems building
  • project management
  • stakeholder engagement
  • verbal and written communication – especially with senior or hard-to-access people
  • policy (and business case) development
  • commercial procurement
  • data analysis and presentation

…and is pursuing learning in:

  • data management (specifically SQL)
  • AI safety and ethics

CURRENTLY READING:

  • Fiction: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
  • Non-Fiction: The Precipice by Toby Ord

EDUCATION

Olamide Florence has a degree in International Politics & Policy and History (with double honours) from the University of Liverpool, UK. It was here that she first developed her skills in thematic thinking and took a multifaceted or ‘hodge-podge’ approach to her degree. Her ability to quickly digest and present complex information led her to be selected by Professor Deana Heath as one of 4 special event interlocutors at the Liverpool World Museum in 2018.

Favourite studies during her degree included:

  • Tracing colonialism in southern African countries through the landscape’s changing botany and dendrology
  • Tracing post-colonial relationships between Britain and Africa through music
  • Final Project: Exploration into how masculinity and femininity are used in the depictions of heroes and villains in She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985) and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)

Feel free to drop her a line at florenceoade@gmail.com – she loves a good yap.

You can also look at her CV here.