Hussein Orekoya

Hussein Orekoya, a climate-smart Civil Engineer and Co-Founder/CEO of My Environment is Mine Initiative (memyAfrica) – a UN SDSN-Youth member organization and official supporting partner of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – working for the future of cities in Africa through advocacy and social development projects.

Hussein is a recipient of the Youth Climate Fund by the Urban Movement Innovation Fund who will be hosting the #ClimathonLagos boot camp and conference shape informed conversation and advocacy on climate change in Nigerian cities as a Local Organizer of the EU Climate-KIC’s Climathon.

Hussein aspires to become an international development consultant with a mission to multiply his organization’s impact across Africa. He is a trained Urban Resilience practitioner by top global urban experts from six institutions, two of which are the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the Coalition for Disaster Resilience Infrastructure (CDRI) with skills in the use of the disaster resilience scorecard spreadsheet and the “Making Cities Resilient 2030” (MCR2030) tools for disaster-resilient infrastructure assessment.

Hussein is a member of the Chatham House’s Common Futures Conversations Community, a Climate Reality Leader and alumnus of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) West Africa Fellowship, 2019 Semi-Finalist of the Atlas Corp Fellowship, 2020 Social Media Ambassador of the Global Landscape Forum, and 2021 Fellow of the UN SDSN-Youth Local Pathways Fellowship effecting the New Urban Agenda in Nigeria. In 2019, he championed the Plant-to-Replenish Africa Project to promote SDG 13 and urban forest restoration in Nigeria with validation from the World Economic Forum’s UpLink through the 1 trillion Tree Challenge (2021-2030).