PhD Candidates

Omolola Esan

Omolola Esan (Nigeria) is a Partner and West Africa People Consulting Leader at EY West Africa. Currently, she works as Organisation Design specialist, and her professional background spans journalism, marketing, media and advocacy, strategic human resources management and management consulting in different sectors across multiple geographies.

She has worked extensively in the areas of organisation design, culture and change management, Human Resources strategy development, business transformation, learning and development, as well as mergers and acquisitions for a wide array of clients within the public and private sectors.

She holds an MSc in International Management from Queen Mary University of London, a BA in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a certificate in Climate Change and Sustainability Strategies from Cambridge University.

Her proposed research focuses on how organisations in Nigeria can anticipate and manage the effects of brain drain. She aims to develop practical insights that support sustainable workforce strategies and organisational stability, while informing wider policy reform.