Sarah Esangbedo Ajose-Adeogun
Managing Partner, Africa
Sarah Ajose-Adeogun nee Esangbedo is the former Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Strategy, Policy, Projects and Performance Management (SPPPMO). She is an accomplished professional with over three decades of multidisciplinary experience over twenty of which was spent in the oil and gas industry.
As the Special Adviser SPPPMO she leads the Technocratic arm of the Governor’s Office as well as drives the Edo State Public Service Transformation Project. She is a consummate professional who is bringing technocratic professionalism into governance and helping to drive the implementation of the people-centric initiatives of the Edo State government.
Before that, Sarah was the Community Content Manager for Shell Petroleum Development Company. During her distinguished career in the Oil industry, spent in the Royal Dutch group and its subsidiaries in Nigeria that include the Shell Petroleum Development Company, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company and the Shell Nigeria Closed Pension Funds, Sarah was involved in various transformation initiatives that generated sustainable value across social performance, information technology and local content disciplines.
In her role of Social Performance Team Lead responsible for Tertiary Education, Sarah managed the Shell Nigeria University Scholarship Portfolio that gave support to over 1000 students on an annual basis, including an overseas scholarship programme for postgraduate studies in Engineering and Geosciences worth about Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars Annually. While at the Shell Nigeria Closed Pension Fund Administrators as IT Manager, Sarah deployed technology applications for the management of over USD 2 billion in investment funds and managed the Pension Fund digitization Programme. Most recently, She managed the USD 2.4 billion Shell Contractors Fund, a financial intermediation platform involving leading Nigerian banks in support of Nigerian Oil and Gas Contractors under the Shell Nigerian Content Development programme.
Sarah is the first and only female thus far that has held the position of Branch Chairperson of the PENGASSAN Shell Branch and in fact, any of the LoCs in Nigeria. She was the Shell Women’s Network National Coordinator for two tenures and also was the Chairman Industry issues committee for the Pengassan Producers Forum 2013 – 2015.
Sarah holds a BA in English & Literary Studies from the Bendel State University, Ekpoma (now Ambrose All University)in 1991. She holds two Post Graduate Degrees in Business. Administration and also in Management both from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
Sarah is an indigene of Igueben LGA in Edo State and She retired from the Shell Group as the Community Content Manager, of The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd, (SPDC) to join the Edo State Government as Special Adviser to the Governor in charge of Strategy, Policy, Projects and Performance Management.
Sarah is a certified Project Manager, Business Analyst and certified mediator, she is an Associate of the Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ) and a trustee of Noah’s Ark Foundation for Sickle Cell (NAFFSC). She runs the ‘Catch Them Young’ programme, a guidance counselling and ethical program for female secondary school students.
She is blessed with three children. She enjoys travelling, music and dancing