International PR agency Provoke Media has listed the Group Head of Company Communications, Dangote Group, Anthony Chiejina, as one of many “100 most influential communications and advertising executives on the planet 2024.”
The organisation famous that firms and types proceed to face intense shopper, media and stakeholder scrutiny towards the “permacrisis” backdrop of main geopolitical, financial, societal, cultural and environmental upheaval around the globe.
“And their senior communications and advertising executives are anticipated to ship greater than ever, sooner than ever. In the meantime, good CEOs recognise that trusted communications counsel isn’t solely integral to fame and transformation however is business-critical in such unsure instances — and the 100 names on our 2024 listing present ample proof of this recognition,” it added.
Chiejina was chosen alongside 99 different communications and advertising executives of extremely rated authorities businesses, international firms and conglomerates.
Chiejina made the enviable listing alongside Zenia Mucha, Chief Model & Communications Officer
TikTok; Vanessa Broadhurst, EVP, International Company Affairs, Johnson & Johnson; Valerie Tan, SVP Company Communications, CSR & Media, Emirates; Steve John, Chief Communications & Model Officer,
HSBC; Sally Susman, EVP, Chief Company Affairs Officer, Pfizer, and Sandy Rodriguez,
International Chief Communications Officer,
McDonalds.
Additionally on the listing are Abhinav Kumar, International Chief Advertising and marketing Officer, TCS; AJ Jones, EVP, Chief Company Affairs Officer, Starbucks; Alex Aiken, Communications Advisor, UAE Ministry of Overseas Affairs; Allyson Park, Chief Communications Officer, Walmart; Amy Bonitatibus, Chief Company Affairs & Communications Officer, PayPal; Andreas Bartels, Head of Communications, Lufthansa, and Bea Perez, EVP, International Chief Communications, Sustainability & Strategic Partnerships Officer, Coca-Cola, amongst others.
Anthony Chiejina graduated from the College of Lagos in 1981 with a B.Sc (Hons) Diploma in Mass Communication (Second Class Higher). He has thereafter bagged numerous different tutorial levels, together with an M.Sc in Industrial Relations & Personnel Administration College of Lagos (1984), an M.A. in Organisational Evaluation & Behaviour College of Lancaster, UK (1988) and an M.A. Growth Research, Institute of Social Research (ISS), The Hague, Netherlands (1994).
He served variously as Affiliate Editor & Deputy Editor of each African Financial Digest, London and African Harmony, Lagos. He has labored with Zenith Financial institution Plc as Assistant Basic Supervisor (AGM) and Oceanic Financial institution Worldwide Plc as Deputy Basic Supervisor (DGM) the place he was the Group Head, Company Communications.
He’s at present the Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Restricted overseeing all communications methods throughout Enterprise Items and Pan-African operations.
He acquired quite a few tutorial distinctions and awards together with Salzburg Fellow for Gifted Mid-Profession Skilled, Austria; British Authorities Scholarship (ODASS) for Graduate Research, UK, Netherlands Fellowship; College of Lagos Scholar 1982 and 1984; College of Oslo, Norway, Fellowship; Fellow of Oxford College Centre of Company Status; Member, America Public Relations Affiliation and British Public Relations Affiliation, Affiliate, Institute of Administrators (IoD), and Fellow, Affiliation of Sustainability Professionals of Nigeria (ASPN).
LEADERSHIP stories that The Affect 100 is PRovoke Media’s annual compilation of probably the most influential in-house communicators around the globe: the chief communications officers and chief advertising officers who’ve probably the most clout when it comes to their private voice, the standing of the businesses they work for, and the PR company hiring choices they make.
