Rianat Abosede Wahab

Rianat Abosede Wahab

Co-Founder, GEAD Foundation of GEAD Foundation (Gender Equality for African Development)

Rianat Abosede Wahab is a gender equality, decent work and economic growth advocate.

She currently volunteers as a Facilitator at Jobberman Nigeria, where she assists in training over 200,000 Nigerian youths on soft skills. Her dedication to the role made her earn an Award of Exceptional Performance.

Rianat is the Ogun State Champion at Nigeria Youth SDGs. In this capacity, she contributed to the creation of the SDGs Playbook —a resource material on SDGs advocacy published by the UN.

She co-founded GEAD Foundation, a youth-led non-profit organisation to promote digital, technical and soft skills among girls and women in Nigeria.

Recently, she is the Regional Director at Youth Hub located in Malaysia, Bangladesh and Nepal, where she promotes digital literacy, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in Nigeria.

As an SDGs advocate, she is dedicated to building a society of equality, reducing unemployment and contributing to Youth leadership.