Education. Leadership. International affairs
Shaping the next generation of audacious global 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.
Leadership Ethos
A working creed inherited from Athens, now delivered to the world
Leadership Ethos
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.
Leadership in Practice
Building the ALA
Model African Union
Leadership in Practice
Building the ALA
Model African Union
While building the marketing, communications, and student recruitment infrastructure of Africa’s premier leadership institution reaching 46 African countries, Faith was also deeply invested in developing the continent’s future diplomatic leaders. Discover how the ALA Model African Union transformed the student leadership journey, built new institutional partnerships, generated unprecedented revenue and amplified the organisation’s visibility. This is what “not only not less” looks like in practice.
Do the most what you do the best
Do as much as you can but pay attention to what brings you the most joy, the most fulfilment, the most results and do them as much as you can.
