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Princess Moradeun Ogunlana is the Founder and Executive Director of African Women’s Health Project International (AWHPI) www.awhpi.org - an international non-profit 501(c)3 organization that focuses on empowering women globally thru health, economic developments, trade associations and partnerships. She is also the President/CEO of Innovative Global Consulting, LLC (IGC) www.innovativeglobalconsult.com, an Infrastructure Development company based in Arkansas with operations in Ghana and Nigeria.

 

In January 2006, she was appointed by the Little Rock Mayor and Board of Directors as a Commissioner to the LRSCC Board, and currently serving her second term as the Vice-Chair/Commissioner on the Little Rock Sister Cities Commission Board in Little Rock, Arkansas - her term expires on January 2016. In November 2008, she was appointed as the Country Coordinator of Nigerian Sister Cities by the African Global Sister Cities Foundation under the umbrella of Sister Cities International – www.sci.org to provide effective leadership support in the coordination of all programs and activities of all sister cities in Nigeria working towards the achievement of SCI's goals. She currently serve on the Arkansas Public Health Leaders' Roundtable under the directive of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission.

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Ms. Ogunlana graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) in 1991 with a B.A. in Journalism with an emphasis as a Public Information Specialist. She has completed Graduate and further IT studies in International Consulting and Public Policy from the Southern California University for Professional Studies in Santa Ana , California and UALR respectively. She is the publisher and chief editor of a spiritually based magazine, Virtuous Woman Magazine, and serves as editor of numerous other publications such as the Little Rock Sister Cities Commission’s Communiqué Newsletter. She is a journalist known as "Princess Deun," the host of For the Love of Africa, a television show on TV Channel 18 in Arkansas. Furthermore, Ms. Ogunlana played the leading role as attorney Amani Malaika on the international documentary drama “FACE OFF: Maendeleo Presidential Debate Leadership Matters.” This program, produced in Arkansas in 2007, has been screened and viewed in various African Countries including Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania; and plans are underway to produce follow-up episodes in various African Countries.

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Furthermore, she is the President/CEO of Innovative Global Consulting, LLC, and the Board Chairman of the African Innovative Global (Nigeria) Limited. Ms. Ogunlana has over 15 years of experience in providing consulting services to international health and women empowered associations, Oil and Gas industry, agribusiness and investment firms in trade negotiations, global trade flows, and business development for clients in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Her company provides consulting and related services to African Nations in areas including infrastructure development, waste management, public health, construction, energy resources, public-private partnership development, agriculture, emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, education, and business development.  she is the Global Strategic Partner of MORTICO Oil and Gas Corp in Ghana. MORTICO Oil and Gas Corp, a subsdiary of African Innovative Global Company (Nigeria) Limited, is an oil and gas company engaged in the development, exploitation and exploration of oil and gas properties exclusively in the Tema Region in Republic of Ghana.

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AWHPI was born out of a passion and spiritual calling that gently kept pulling at the heartstrings of Princess Moradeun Ogunlana, a native of Nigeria, the granddaughter of the (Late) Pa David Ajasa Ogunlana, the Obanikoro of Lagos. Today, it is active in four major American cities and ground works is underway for the launching of a major health-care initiative in 2014. Founded in 1999 and incorporated in 2003, the mission seeks to improve health care thus the quality of life for women and children in African countries. She is the producer and organizer of the Annual AWHPI African Health Conference and Symposium. Where homeland resources fall short, Ogunlana hopes to fill the gap with outside donations of medical services including supplies and equipments. Ms. Ogunlana has an international office in Nigeria and leads an organization that sets up free medical clinics, distributing medicines, medical equipment, and supplies to women and children in impoverished areas in Africa.

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A Royal Princess by birth, Ms. Ogunlana is the granddaughter of  (late) Pa David Ajasa Ogunlana, the Obanikoro of Lagos who ruled from 1948 to 1969, and great granddaughter of the first ruling King in Remo, HRM Oba Liyogu Owabagbe (Adenuga), the late Akarigbo of Remoland, Ogun State. Her uncle is the recently deceased Royal King of Lagos, His Royal Majesty Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, the King of Lagos who ruled from 1964 to 2007.

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• She has received numerous volunteer and Governor’s Community Service awards and recently received the National Leadership Award as Honorary Chairman of NRCC.
• Ms. Ogunlana is a recipient of the 2012 “The Chlarissa Pope Woman in the Mirror” Award.
• She is currently recognized and listed, respectively, in the Honor’s Edition as a 2011/2012 Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executive and Professional Women in America, and 2012 Stanford Who's Who in Business.