Olajumoke Adenowo
Principal Architect, AD Consulting Limited
Olajumoke Adenowo is Africa’s most influential female architect, a transformational leader, business builder and philanthropist and the founder of internationally recognized firm, AD Consulting, established in 1994. She serves as the Principal Architect at AD Consulting with a large portfolio of projects and known globally for her architectural mastery, using innovative thinking to solve complex problems.
With a successful 34-year career as an exceptional leader in Architecture, she has served in various leadership positions for Women and Youth Initiatives. Olajumoke is a recipient of the Forbes Woman African Entrepreneur 2020 Award and was recognized as New African Businesswoman of the Year in 2016. A true polymath, she was recognized in the Forbes Europe, Middle East and Africa: 50 Over 50 list, and her impact in leadership and philanthropy has earned her recognition by Congress of the United States.
She is also a Chartered Arbitrator, a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects and served as a Juror for the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards. In 2019, she was appointed a Visiting Professor and Guest Laureate at Technische Universität München, in Germany. She is a mentor of over 300 individuals through her faith-based philanthropic organization, Awesome Treasures founded in 1991 and dedicated to raising transformational leaders . Awesome Treasures is established across 6 continents and recognized by the United Nations and United States Congress.
Olajumoke is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, IESE Business School, Yale University, MIT Sloan School of Management and University of Ile Ife.
She is a published author and the first African and First black architect published by Rizzolli through her Landmark monograph “NeoHeritage “. Her work is also featured in “Raising the Roof: Women Architects Who Broke Through the Glass Ceiling” Agata Toromanoff (Prestel 2021), “100 Architects” by the RIBA and Pratt Institute and “Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Colonial Conflicts in Museum Culture”. Edited by Hegenbart, S. (Bloomsbury, 2024).
