David Lawal is a seasoned multimedia professional with an Associate Diploma in Communications from the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria and from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA in COVID-19 Contact Tracing.

He is a former Communications Manager at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and served as Partnership and Program Lead for Health and Gender Equality at Sterling One Foundation. With over six years of experience in Development Communications and Good Governance.

Between 2018 and 2023 he served as Program/Communications Officer with Centre for Communications and Social Impact (CCSI), an NGO birthed by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA in Abuja, where he sharpened his skills as a Social and Behaviour Change Communications (SBCC) specialist.

With a first Degree in Communications from the prestigious Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos, Nigeria, he has over 10 years of experience working with legacy media houses in Nigeria, managing several news media houses in Nigeria, and freelancing for some in the United Kingdom and Russia among others.

As part of his love and passion for impacting knowledge, David has about 7 years of teaching experience, starting as an early year class instructor to becoming Senior Secondary School Tutor. He later taught New/Digital Media as a junior lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) between 2017-2018.

David is an alumnus of the Deloitte-funded innovative lab, UNLEASHLAB in Copenhagen, Denmark with a focus on incubating and formulating innovative ideas to drive SDG 3 (Health). He was also one of the Nigerian Delegates to the United Nations-funded World Press Freedom Day in Riga, Latvia, where he headed the United Nations (UN) Youth Newsroom for the event.

He is certified by the British Council in Nigeria (2017 and 2018) in Risk/Crisis Communication; UNESCO (2015); Google Africa (2015) for election coverage, and Global Editors Network (2014) on combating Ebola out of Nigeria.

He is a certified multimedia journalist/storyteller and Corporate Communicator with a passion for social development. He is equally versatile in news writing, media and public relations, media buying, social and digital media consultancy, community mobilization, media publishing, photography, and videography production.

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