Shapingagenerationofaudaciousgloballeaders.
“Our work is to make education a force for peace and sustainability; to elevate it to the urgency of our shared global future.”
Faith Abiodun is an educator, writer, and architect of institutions.
As Executive Director of UWC International, he leads one of the world’s most consequential education movements — 18 colleges, more than 150 national committees, and alumni in 150+ countries. Before UWC, he spent nearly a decade building the African Leadership Academy’s recruitment and brand infrastructure across 46 African countries, and founded Future Africa, a public-sector leadership network active across 30 African countries. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, by Macalester College in 2023, and currently chairs the International Baccalaureate’s Education Systems Advisory Council.
Inherited from Athens. Delivered to the world.
Carved into stone at the Maxwell School in Syracuse, where Faith studied, the Athenian Ephebic Oath sits at the heart of his ethos for developing ideas, building institutions, and leading people: receive what is given, make it greater, transmit it onward.
Ethos in action
African Leadership Academy
2009 – 2019 · Johannesburg
A decade building the marketing, communications, and admissions infrastructure of a then-unknown institution in Johannesburg into a continental pipeline reaching forty-six African countries. This is what not only not less looks like in practice.
46 countries reached · 8 programmes built · 10 years