Yasmin Belo-Osagie Biography: Family, Age, Early Life, Education, Career, Net worth

Yasmin Belo-Osagie Biography

Yasmin Belo-Osagie Biography:Yasmin Belo-Osagie is co-founder of She Leads Africa, which she co-founded with Afua Osei. She is the daughter of Nigerian billionaire Hakeem Belo-Osagie and lawyer Myma Belo-Osagie.

Yasmin Belo-Osagie Early Life

Yasmin Belo-Osagie was born in Boston United States of America but grew up in Nigeria. Yasmin attended a boarding school in England before graduating from Princeton University USA. She also attended Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and London.

Yasmin Belo-Osagie Education

She attended Le Cordon Bleu (a hospitality education institution) in Paris and London.

She studied at Harvard Law School and at Stanford Graduate School of Business, graduating with a JD/MBA in 2019.

Yasmin Belo-Osagie Career

In 2013, Yasmin Belo-Osagie cofounded She Leads Africa which has helped to nurture hundreds of aspiring, ambitious female entrepreneurs, with support from companies including Intel, Guaranty Trust Bank, Huawei, and Etisalat. She leads the events and offline programming team. She Leads Africa (SLA) is a women’s social enterprise based in Nigeria that seeks to address challenges women on the continent face in creating, growing, and sustaining their businesses and professional services. SLA provides online platform, offering articles and materials on business advice, which is specifically tailored to entrepreneurship on the continent.

Her vision to see African women excel in their businesses did not just end with cofounding SLA. In 2015, Belo-Osagie took five female entrepreneurs to China to meet with successful women entrepreneurs and China-based investors interested in Africa.

She has also hosted versions of her professional boot camp, the SheHive , in Lagos, Nigeria; Johannesburg, South Africa, and other cities.

In 2016, Yasmin was nominated as one of the Fast Company’s most creative people in business, along with 99 other people. She was chosen because of her role in developing female entrepreneurs.