David Lawal is the Media Officer at Centre for Communication and Social Impact (CCSI), a Nigeria-based NGO birthed by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Before joining CCSI, he worked as a Multimedia Journalist and Social Media Executive at The Nation Newspaper. With over 10years of experience in the Nigerian media, starting as an Editorial Assistant at TELL Communications - publishers of TELL Magazine and Broad Street Journals (BSJ).

He was a freelance writer and editor for a Birmingham-based magazine - High Society International Magazine for over three years from 2011 to 2014. He was a media consultant to Africa Young Entrepreneurs (AYE) in 2015, working closely with the International President Summy Smart-Francis.

He is a certified multimedia journalist and corporate communicator with experience in writing, media and public relations, media buying, social and digital media consultancy, community mobilization, media publishing, photography, and videography production.

He possesses degrees in Mass Communication and Journalism from the prestigious Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Ogba, Lagos and the School of Media and Communication at Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos (2016). He had earlier obtained a National Diploma from Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State. He is well-grounded in all aspects of media and communication.

Earlier in 2014, he was hired by Semiu Okanlawon to develop and publish content on his digital platform - Nigeria Politics Online. Okanlawon, a former Editor at The Punch, was the Director of Communication and Strategy to the former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola at the time.

As part of his love for teaching, David taught New Media as a junior lecturer to Lekan Otufodunrin at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) in 2017-2018. He has over six years of experience in teaching from 2004 to 2010.

He was a Nigerian Delegate to the UN World Press Freedom Day in Latvia, where he headed the United Nations (UN) Youth Newsroom for the event. He is an alumnus of Deloitte-funded innovative lab, UNLEASHLAB in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He is certified by British Council in Nigeria (2017 and 2018); UNESCO (2015); Google Africa (2015), and Global Editor’s Network (2014).

He is a member of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Journalists For Christ, Africa Press Team, Africa Young Entrepreneur, Code for Nigeria, and a few others.

During his time off work, he plays the Piano and likes reading, praying, teaching, and tourism.