Oluwaseun Adekugbe

Oluwaseun is the Managing Director at Youth4Nature, a by-youth, for-youth, international non-profit organization that educates, equips, and establishes youth as leaders on system-wide solutions for the nature and climate crises that are rooted in traditional & scientific knowledge and are grounded in intergenerational justice. As a Nigeria-born-and-raised climate and nature advocate, Oluwaseun co-founded the Ecosustainers initiative in Nigeria, a network of young foresters promoting the participation of local and Indigenous communities in sustainable forest management as leading advocacy efforts for natural resource management in the country. She holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Technology in (Forestry and Wood), from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria Currently, she is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar studying Sustainable Forest and Nature Management at Bangor University, United Kingdom and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she majors at Participatory Nature governance.