Shapingagenerationofaudaciousgloballeaders.
“Our urgent responsibility is to give the world more of what it desperately needs — courageous, selfless, transformational, globally aware, action-oriented leaders.”
Faith Abiodun is an educator, writer, and architect of institutions.
As Executive Director of United World Colleges (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.
A working creed inherited from Athens, now delivered to the world.
Carved into stone at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 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.
“…we will transmit this city not only, not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
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