Olufemi Williams - Director, United Kingdom

Olufemi Williams is the Director of Strategy and Planning (EMEA). She graduated from London Guildhall University with LL.B in Business Law. She holds professional qualifications and certifications in various disciplines including CDM (Construction Design and Management), NEC3 (New Engineering Contract), APMP (Association for Project Management Professional), Yellow Belt (Six Sigma), MSP (Managing Successful Programmes), PRINCE2, MOR (Management of Risk), OCP (Oracle Certified Professional), Judicial Training, etc.

She started her career as a Software Engineer (Oracle Developer) at Axial Logistics in 1998 and proceeded into Project Management Consultancy in 2001. Since then, she has worked on numerous high profile Strategy, Transformation, Transition, Procurement, HR, ICT, Infrastructure, Media, Client and Shared Services programmes in both Public and Private Sector.

Olufemi's leadership and management skills span across many industries in the UK including Telecoms, Transport, Rail, Health, Criminal Justice, Insurance, Logistics, Construction and Advertising. She has previously worked at Office of Government Commerce, Transport for London, NHS London, T-Mobile, Balfour Beatty, London Probation Trust, Cabinet Office, Government lega department, etc.

In 2005, she was awarded the Opportunity Now Award for Public Sector for her successful delivery of the Managing Diversity Competence Programme for London Underground. In 2009, she led the programme for London Probation Trust to reduce Prison population in London prisons by 32%.

In 2011, she was appointed 'Justice of the Peace' in the UK by the Lord Chancellor on behalf of HM the Queen and currently sits as a Magistrate in North East London court. In 2016, she was part of the Bidding team that won the £2billion PITTA contract (Programmes for Investment and Transformation og TfL Advertising) for Exterion Media.