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Ms Roni Ajao
Ms Roni Ajao is a British born with Nigerian parentage and is the Executive Director and founder of MRL public sector consultants Limited, which was established in 2002.She was one of the recipients of the Nigerian Achievers of the Golden Commendation Award in December 2007. As a result of her outstanding achievements, Ms. Ajao was recognised by “Who is Who” for four times which was from 2008-2012 successive years except in 2010. The result of her hard work and dedication empowered her as being in the top 1% of executives in the UK amongst 2.2 million companies. She was nominated for the Lloyds Bank Woman of the Year Award.

Education
Ms. Ajao pursued a BA degree,M.Phil,MBA and M.Sc  from  Oxford University and HEC in Paris, France. She holds a certificate in Management Research from Cranfield University, a certificate in Leadership from Harvard University, a certificate in International Development from University of Cambridge and an advanced Management Programme qualification from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.

Career
At her early ages, Ms. Ajao was employed as a consultant within the Government and Public Service Practice of PA Consulting. Following eight years of experience working at the strategic and at the local levels of government, she stepped her career as a Senior Consultant at Pricewaterhousecoopers(PwC) in  the Government and Defence Service.She was initially trained  as a Land Surveyor and Town Planner before moving into  management Consultancy with special interest in the public sector.

Ms. Ajao has extensive experience  in Programme and Project Management, Conducting scoping studies, Organizational reviews and design, Communications and Stakeholder Management, Corporate Strategy Development, and Public Sector Management. She is also an expert in Change Management, Leadership tutoring and coaching .These wide range of enormous skills  combined with hard work and dedication towards work   made MRL stand dominant compared to other consultancies.Her work involves working at the strategic level of governments with Ministers, Members of Parliament, Permanent Secretaries, State Governors, Senators, Chief Executive Officers and other Senior Management Teams members.

Ms. Ajao has served several UK government departments including the Department for Transport, the Office for National Statistics, the United Kingdom Identity and Passport Service, the World Bank,the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Children Schools and Families, undertaking a variety of assignments. At the local government level ,she has worked for the London Boroughs of Southwark, Lewisham, and Hillingdon, Wycombe District Council and Kent County Council.

Honours and Achievements
Ms. Ajao is an active researcher at Durham Business School, where she was honoured with Doctorate appraising her enormous skills  and  also a member of several professional institutions:


 * Fellow of the Institute of Consulting
 * Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management
 * Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management
 * Member of the Association of Project Management
 * Member of the Institute for Directors
 * Chairperson of the Eastern Region for the Institute of Consulting
 * Chartered Manager of Chartered Management Institute