The 2019 Presidential Aspirant Emmanuel Ishie Etim is the CEO of www.afrizonemart.com an e-commerce and outlet store for ONLY made in Africa. Before deciding to run for the office of President Federal Republic of Nigeria, he was for five years at the African Union as senior Technical Adviser, Global partnerships and Program implementation (2008-2013), during which he conceptualised, established, resourced, and operationalised the African Union Young Professionals Program and Youth Volunteer Corps (AUYVC) and organized the landmark African Union Summit of Heads of States and Government on the theme of Youth empowerment and development (2011).
Prior to the AU, he worked as Regional Youth specialist in the office of the UNFPA representative to the UNECA, AU, and RECS (2006 – 2008), during which he managed the role of UNFPA as youth lead of the joint AU/UN regional coordination mechanism. A role which earned him the in-famous “the result guy”. He’s worked and traveled extensively around the world from Australia, to Latin America, the USA, Europe and more than 60% of African countries.

National Policy Engagements (Major):
* Presidential technical committee on the Niger Delta as advisor on youth (2008)
* Ministerial level national youth policy review (s) (1998, 2004, 2013)
* Ministerial level national health policy review(s) and implementation (1999-2002)
* Ministerial level national HIV AIDS programme development, evaluation and financing (1999-2005)
* Non-state actor in a Political agenda for the Nigerian Youth (2007)
* Nigerian National Population Review (1995-1996)
* Nigerian Gas Master plan roadshow/promotion (2007)
* Ministerial level National Working Group on Adolescent Health (1999-2003)
* Presidential National Committee for the maiden International Year of Volunteers (2001)

Etim’s Political Ideology:
It reflects inclusion, fighting inequality, promoting equal opportunity, enforcing student success, enabling access to finance for youth and women entrepreneurs, fair capitalism (consumer rights protection), the disabled should not be excluded from the society and the fundamental rights of every citizen must be paramount, protected and enforced.

The Etim Persona:
Mr Etim is a transformatory and disruptive leader with a lion-hearted temperament, captivating speaking skills and he is determined on fighting inequality. He’s also a nonconformist, out-of-the-box writer.

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