Wangari Ngugi is a Project Manager – Strategic Convenings & Partnerships at the Africa Leadership and Dialogue Institute (ALADI), where she plays a central role in shaping and delivering high-impact platforms for dialogue, learning, and collaboration across the continent. Working at the intersection of leadership, policy, and storytelling, she supports the design and execution of strategic convenings that bring together decision-makers, practitioners, and emerging leaders from across Africa and beyond.
Wangari brings a multidisciplinary background spanning marketing, communications, brand strategy, and large-scale programme delivery across financial services, development, and corporate sectors. Before joining ALADI, she served as Group Head of Marketing at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, leading pan-African brand and marketing initiatives across 33 markets and managing complex stakeholder environments. Her career has included leadership roles in strategic communications, event curation, and audience engagement, where she developed a strong aptitude for translating complex ideas into compelling stories and aligning diverse teams around shared objectives. These experiences have shaped her approach to leadership and collaboration—strategic yet people-centered, structured yet adaptive – and continue to inform how she navigates her work at ALADI.
Through her work at ALADI, Wangari is driven by a desire to help shape systems, narratives, and platforms that elevate African voices and African-led solutions. She is particularly motivated by work that strengthens leadership ecosystems, deepens dialogue across sectors, and bridges the gap between ideas, policy, and lived realities. She believes that Africa’s progress depends not only on strong institutions, but on intentional spaces where leaders can think together, challenge assumptions, and co-create responses to shared challenges.
At ALADI, Wangari aspires to contribute to convenings and partnerships that leave participants better connected, better informed, and better equipped to act. Her long-term vision is to support initiatives that foster inclusive leadership, amplify African perspectives globally, and create enduring value for communities across the continent – work that is thoughtful, grounded, and unmistakably African in its orientation.